The article states Newcastle v City is scheduled for tv and CANT be moved ??? Yet they were able to move the Spurs match easily enough !!Away date is NOT confirmed yet - will be after the FA Cup draw
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46720786
Why should the Newcastle game have anything to do with it?The article states Newcastle v City is scheduled for tv and CANT be moved ??? Yet they were able to move the Spurs match easily enough !!
Why should the Newcastle game have anything to do with it, that is on the 29th?The article states Newcastle v City is scheduled for tv and CANT be moved ??? Yet they were able to move the Spurs match easily enough !!
Why should the Newcastle game have anything to do with it?
Why should the Newcastle game have anything to do with it, that is on the 29th?
I think it's simply that each semifinal has a team playing on the Sunday in 3 weeks, which makes the Tuesday afterwards problematic. Therefore it's likely that one semifinal will go to Wednesday and one to Thursday.
Either date rules out FA Cup on the Friday afterwards, and one rules out the Saturday too. Chelsea and City are playing on the Tuesday afterwards (as it stands), meaning that they would have to play in the FA Cup on the Saturday.
The Newcastle match is on BT, who also have the rights to half the FA Cup. They won't want to mess that around, and they also have a match on the Wednesday.
That or Sky have to play ball and co-operate to help BT by moving the matches beforehand. The cynics can add in "and City" if they like!