Liverpool object to Sky moving Arsenal match to Christmas Eve

[Albumen]

Who the fu<k watches football on Christmas Eve? These people need caring for.

Boxing Day football is a beautiful thing. This only encroaches it and basically has no positives.

 

[Bry Nylon]

And I wouldn't say the fans are totally blameless either, I bet a large proportion of those moaning have Sky subscriptions.

Very true. Anyone with a Sky Sports subscription - or who visits pubs purely to watch televised games - automatically forfeits the right to complain if fixtures are moved for TV.

You reap what you sow.

 

[drew]

Firstly, echo the comments about Liverpool being two faced about tv money!

Secondly, judging by the number of cockneys that seem to ring in to 606 supporting Liverpool, I suspect there will be very few of the 3000 Liverpool fans that would actually travel back to Liverpool anyway!!!

 

[Eeyore]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...sports-plan-switch-arsenal-game-christmas-eve



Obviously think this is a disgrace in forcing fans to do this, but does this also raise the prospect of our game (Watford to Brighton and back being an easier trip) filling the gap? None of the other games seem an easy fix...

Arsenal v Liverpool
Brighton & Hove Albion v Watford
Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur
Everton v Chelsea
Leicester City v Manchester United
Manchester City v AFC Bournemouth
Southampton v Huddersfield Town
Stoke City v West Bromwich Albion
Swansea City v Crystal Palace
West Ham United v Newcastle United

It's only 40 miles from Stoke to West Bromwich. Come to think of it, I've been from Manchester to Leicester in a couple of hours.

 

[clippedgull]

Who the fu<k watches football on Christmas Eve? These people need caring for.

I do, while waiting for Father Christmas if it's alright with you!

 

[SeagullDubai]

I was thinking about the wider Christmas period rather than the day itself. We've certainly played Portsmouth on Boxing Day, I remember a particularly grim visit to the Fratton hell-hole.

Didn't there used to be a lot of return fixtures too? We'd play Fulham on Christmas Day at home and go to the Cottage on Boxing Day. We certainly played games on consecutive days

I can remember booking tickets for New years day at withdean two successive years in a row...flying in from Dubai only to turn up and find the game had been cancelled due to a frozen pitch....hohoho

 

[1066familyman]

I can remember booking tickets for New years day at withdean two successive years in a row...flying in from Dubai only to turn up and find the game had been cancelled due to a frozen pitch....hohoho

I don't think three of those gardening implements would sort out a frozen pitch unfortunately.

 

[Diablo]

SKY pay the money they call the tune, tough on Liverpool but if you sleep with a DOG you catch FLEAS

#BAHHUMBUG

Have you got fleas

 

[Ernest]

Have you got fleas

Wondered why I was ITCHY

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Leicester v Man U

It's not that far back from Leicester to Milton Keynes.

But its effing MILES to Torquay.

 

[LlcoolJ]

But its effing MILES to Torquay.

Or SEOUL. #properfans

 

[fosters headband]

Who the fu<k watches football on Christmas Eve? These people need caring for.

Boxing Day football is a beautiful thing. This only encroaches it and basically has no positives.

We had four Boxing day games with the Palace in the eighties which I enjoyed, with the little extra spice this game always added, plus the fact we won three of them.

 

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[Herr Tubthumper]

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15:30?

 

[father_and_son]

I see. So it's OK for the Premier league to demand a king's ransom for their product, with the promise to broadcasters that they can pick and choose which of a particular weekend's fixtures they can move, but it's Sky's fault for taking them up on that once they've handed over however many BILLION for the privilege?

Oh, and aren't Liverpool one of the big six looking to carve up the foreign TV contract to keep a bigger piece of the pie for themselves? If so, it seems they are happy not to look beyond the end of their own noses when it suits them doesn't it?

How about blaming the Premier League for not keeping half an eye on all travel distances around that time of the year when the fixtures came out? Perhaps if they had, this would never have been an issue.

This! I completely disagree with Sky moving anything but a local derby game to 4pm on Christmas Eve but when you take the king's shilling...

 

[redoubtable seagull]

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1.30pm KO it is then.

 

[Ernest]

1.30pm KO it is then.

3.55 then

 

[Giraffe]

3.55 then

You give the them too much credit, 3.59pm.

 

[Questions]

Wondered why I was ITCHY

Genital lice are different than fleas.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

You give the them too much credit, 3.59pm.

Or they could go for something a little controversial, how about 4.05pm?