For Eastenders to finish. The teams don't bother waiting for a round-up of that 60-second news, so they have 2 minutes to get from warm-up sofa to pitch. It's after the match that they ponder whether David, Pat's son, is here to stay and make a go of it with Carol this time for good.
The correct answer is of course that the Groupon ticket offer (buy a PalacevBHA ticket for £5, get the rest of the season free) doesn't close until 7.50pm
It gives their fans more time to think up an excuse for not going, the old ones, shit ground, shit team don't work anymore. The latest one is that they don't want to get caught by a bailiff and given their extensive knowledge of all things pikey they think that bailiffs stop work at 20:00.