[Football] Saturday 1st May Gameweek - all games 3pm Saturday

[Mellotron]

I don't dare to dream this is accurate, but it seems a bit late for announcing changes for TV - surely this is normally done far earlier?

Anyone know what's going on? Checked the Prem website and has no TV channels listed for the games. Would love to see it - a fantastic old school Match of the Day. We're AT HOME against Leeds.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

We're away against Leeds.

I very much doubt it. Been there, done that.

 

[Phil B]

So, same as last season. And the one before.

No surprise then.

 

[Mellotron]

I very much doubt it. Been there, done that.

Buggery.

 

[Official Old Man]

Waiting to see if the Big 6 are still in?
Thing is, where is the fan power in getting fixture dates released early enough to sort train tickets etc.
It may be no crowds but it's a bank holiday weekend and I've staff rotas to do. Which day do I need off?
Also, with teams flying in and out on the day, these flights need organising as well.
One thing 100%, Man Utd v Liverpool 4:30 Sunday. Work backwards from there. My guess is BHA v Leeds is well down the list so BT and 12:00 Saturday.

 

[Mellotron]

Waiting to see if the Big 6 are still in?
Thing is, where is the fan power in getting fixture dates released early enough to sort train tickets etc.
It may be no crowds but it's a bank holiday weekend and I've staff rotas to do. Which day do I need off?
Also, with teams flying in and out on the day, these flights need organising as well.
One thing 100%, Man Utd v Liverpool 4:30 Sunday. Work backwards from there. My guess is BHA v Leeds is well down the list so BT and 12:00 Saturday.

I’m just confused why it’s so late. Isn’t TV announced usually a minimum of 2/3 weeks in advance?

 

[Richy_Seagull]

No chance, will be split to one game at a time.

 

[spoonie]

sky and BT congratulating themselves about saving the game for the fans and still we wait to find of kick off time for a game in just over a weeks time - what a joke.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Waiting to see if the Big 6 are still in?
Thing is, where is the fan power in getting fixture dates released early enough to sort train tickets etc.
It may be no crowds but it's a bank holiday weekend and I've staff rotas to do. Which day do I need off?
Also, with teams flying in and out on the day, these flights need organising as well.
One thing 100%, Man Utd v Liverpool 4:30 Sunday. Work backwards from there. My guess is BHA v Leeds is well down the list so BT and 12:00 Saturday.

Are you kidding? THE LEEDS are so enormously popular that it's actually their board who dictate kick off times. It will be whenever it can be syndicated to the darkest corners of Uzbekistan and Fiji and everyone else will have to fit in.

 

[studio150]

Being moved to 18/19 May to allow another round of fixtures to have fans in ground, so that all teams get at least one home game with fans present?

 

[Lower West Stander]

Are you kidding? THE LEEDS are so enormously popular that it's actually their board who dictate kick off times. It will be whenever it can be syndicated to the darkest corners of Uzbekistan and Fiji and everyone else will have to fit in.

Absolutely.

They are everyone's 2nd favourite team as well, don't forget.

 

[Mellotron]

Being moved to 18/19 May to allow another round of fixtures to have fans in ground, so that all teams get at least one home game with fans present?

I knew they were talking about moving a gameweek, didn't think it was this one?

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

I knew they were talking about moving a gameweek, didn't think it was this one?

It's not, that is the penultimate game. So we will play Manchester Blues sometime that midweek before playing North London reds on the Sunday.

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[Blue Valkyrie]

I knew they were talking about moving a gameweek, didn't think it was this one?

It's not.

For us the Man City game is being moved to midweek, and the midweek West Ham game moved to when the Man City game was originally.

 

[zefarelly]

It's not, that is the penultimate game. So we will play Manchester Blues sometime that midweek before playing North London reds on the Sunday.

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I thought they'd been rebranded 'Manchester fukked up whites wash' when the filthy Lucre from Unilever came in ?

West Ham game should get prime time, they're the biggest team in London now.

 

[Mellotron]

It's not, that is the penultimate game. So we will play Manchester Blues sometime that midweek before playing North London reds on the Sunday.

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It's not.

For us the Man City game is being moved to midweek, and the midweek West Ham game moved to when the Man City game was originally.

So again, I wonder why the extreme delay in sorting TV for the games on the 1st...haven't seen anything in the media about it at all. Just confused is all.

 

[Machiavelli]

I’m just confused why it’s so late. Isn’t TV announced usually a minimum of 2/3 weeks in advance?

From memory, it was 6 weeks in advance pre-CV. But that doesn't apply as the season draws to a close and the broadcasters want to situate those games with the most hanging on it in their prime slots. You're right that it is very late, but I reckon it's down to a combination of CV19/no-fans/travel and end of season.

 

[Iovan The Sweeper]

Some of the recent fixture changes have been very short notice, so I imagine we will find out this week. The previous ones have also announced 2 or 3 weeks together, so I expect we will find out about the games on the 8th/9th May too (so our game vs. Wolves)

 

[Mellotron]

From memory, it was 6 weeks in advance pre-CV. But that doesn't apply as the season draws to a close and the broadcasters want to situate those games with the most hanging on it in their prime slots. You're right that it is very late, but I reckon it's down to a combination of CV19/no-fans/travel and end of season.

Thanks - I'll stop being boring now.

Just hope we're not around the bloody 8pm slot again, whichever night.

 

[Machiavelli]

Thanks - I'll stop being boring now.

Just hope we're not around the bloody 8pm slot again, whichever night.

All April fixtures have been evening kick offs. I don't mind them in lockdown. I'd rather the 8 than the 6 o'clock one though.