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When Saturday Comes
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Is there still a Liverpool FC fanzine called "When Sunday Comes"? It was ironically titled because LFC matches were so frequently switched to Sundays for TV in the late eighties. I almost feel like this title should now belong to us in the blue half of the city.
If you haven't noticed, we've had yet another Saturday 3:00 pm kick-off changed (this the pre-Christmas fixture vs Chelsea ? now on a Monday night!!). It will mean no traditional Saturday afternoon kick-offs at all through September-December 2009. Our next scheduled Saturday 3:00 pm kick-off is Hull City in early January.
Perhaps it's the annoyance of such a poor start, exit from the Uefa Cup and too many broken promises that has me angry at present. But no traditional kick-offs until 2009 ? and we've been knocked out of the Uefa Cup! For me this means havoc with family and travel arrangements and the possibility of missing at least two games.
Maybe it is the poor start. Maybe it was as bad as this last year... but it didn't feel like it. There were great afternoons (that became great evenings) against Fulham, Sunderland and Man City in 07-08: By 5:00 pm on those days, we were floating with joy ? and with Sunday to recover if required.
Gerry Allen, Posted 12/10/2008 at 21:27:15
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Anyways, up the blues and no matter how shit we play I will always be geared up for a big game, week-in, week-out.
Saturday 3:00pm IS football but it looks like a dying breed, not too long ago there was a weekend with only two games on Saturday with only one being at 3:00pm, we have Sky to thank for this... bunch of arse.
Plus West Ham in Novemeber and City in December.
Just a few...
Which is 9.45pm or 9pm Saturday night.
Really good, a few beers in the pub etc and watch the game.
Er! but I understand your poinr actually going to the game.
I am a scouser and have always supported Everton and used to always go to the game.
In our A league, we have games that kick off Friday night at 8pm, Saturday night at anything between 5pm and 7pm and Sunday at anything between 2pm and 6pm.
It’s all to do with TV and you can’t even get Bovril at half-time.
As a complete aside, I’ve got my ticket for Australia v Qatar on Wed.
Tim will definitely be playing. Can’t wait to see him in the green and gold.
Greetings to all fellow Evertonians in the old country.
Move over here FFS you we need some more bar staff in the places I go!
Seriously, we need Football at 3pm Saturday or Sunday.
Shit isn?t it.
When I played amateur football, every coach (and player) I ever played under said the same things ? ?get stuck in/get in their faces/go in hard etc? which always made for appalling football matches. The British way was never the best way but 3pm Saturday games are a thing of the past; they have been for sometime in my view, not that I care that much either way as I?m usually busy on Saturday afternoons!
My point is that the mentality was often that the best way to win was up & at em, rather than anything more scientific!
Don?t get me wrong, I like the fact that there is a lot of footy on the tele, but if I had the choice of all games being on a Saturday and a highlights package on the tele or all these games getting messed about and put on all sorts of days at all sorts of hours just so we can have some live football, I?d take the Saturday option!
I know there?s all these ?what would we do without the Sky money? questions, but when we?re getting messed about as much as we seem to be with fixtures, it doesn?t half make you feel like the paying, loyal fan is the last one anyone thinks about when sorting all this out!
Unless it?s in Europe.
It is apparent that the Worldwide television audience [and the Bar room, Armchair brigade] are deemed to be the future of the game. I am old enough to remember football pre-floodlights.
For Everton, Saturday kick off was 3:15pm at the start of the season, but as the days shortened, this shifted to, 3:00pm, 2:45pm, 2:30pm, 2:15pm and the earliest start of 2:00pm. This was reversed in the Spring as the days lengthened. The only mid-week fixtures were FA Cup replays, and International games... those days alas are sadly a thing of the past.
Saturday was undoubtedly the traditional day for the National game, and you could plan your life accordingly, it could be argued by some that today's system is progress, I personally would dispute this.
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1 Posted 13/10/2008 at 02:19:39
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When the team plays like crap it makes me wonder why I bother, but I can?t stay away from this club.