Southend Game Moved

[Lady Whistledown]

Is it something to do with the police budgets , because they have to pay out more in overtime/additional lieu days when they have a bank holiday to roster in ?

No, as Saturday wouldn't count as a bank holiday for the purpose of the overtime budget.

Southend tend to lose support whenever West Ham are at home, and usually ask the fixtures secretary to avoid playing at home on the same day, so perhaps its an experiment to see if they can generate larger crowds by playing on a Friday night.

Tranmere used to play a lot of Friday night games in the misguided belief that, without Liverpool or Everton games to distract them, hordes of Scousers would pile over to Birkenhead to lend their support.

 

[empire]

f*** f*** f***

 

[Elder for England]

Where was it moved from? A Saturday?

 

[philsussex]

Damn. Gonna have to drive now

 

[Basil Fawlty]

would like to think could still make this one - will we EVER play their on a saturday again?!

Nope I don't think we will, they're moving into their new stadium very soon.

 

[Spider]

Good news for me as I wouldn't have been able to go on Saturday but can on Friday. Slightly strange decision though.

 

[Ice Man]

Should still be able to make it. Shame we didn't just tell them to piss off really, as it's much harder for the fans to make a friday night game than a saturday afternoon game.

 

[plymouth nige]

Great drive up from Plymouth on a Friday before bank holiday!! See if I can get the day off, and go with you Salty!

 

[dougdeep]

All league games should be on a Saturday at 3pm. Tradition has gone to the dogs.

 

[Sheebo]

f***ing hope this is on SKY now...