Fixtures Calendar - 2023/24

hammocity said:
Started before that, ITV were showing top flight football in 1989, Sky took over in 1991 when Leeds won the last Football League in the 91/92 season. Then along came Sky and the Rags won the first Premier League. I think, but could well be wrong. Sky started with Sunday games then added Saturday lunch and Monday night football which they made a big thing of, City v QPR was the first MNF at Maine Road, fireworks followed by a 1-1 draw.
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Football on TV started before that be we got a live game once a season. Most Septembers have 4 Saturdays, the second one becoming an international weekend meant the majority had 3, and that was the 1996 change.
 
Corky said:
Football on TV started before that be we got a live game once a season. Most Septembers have 4 Saturdays, the second one becoming an international weekend meant the majority had 3, and that was the 1996 change.
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The only live games on TV going back in the day were the FA Cup final, England Internationals and if an English team was in the European cup final that was shown.

Really confused about your September comment, it’s nothing to do with 3pm kick offs which is what was originally discussed.
 
hammocity said:
The only live games on TV going back in the day were the FA Cup final, England Internationals and if an English team was in the European cup final that was shown.

Really confused about your September comment, it’s nothing to do with 3pm kick offs which is what was originally discussed.
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Think he’s saying as there’s normally only four Saturdays in September, as opposed to five this year, it would have been almost impossible for there to be four, Saturday 3pm games in any September since one of them has been the international break.
 
So league cup Newcastle away on Sky 8pm on the Wednesday, 27 Sept, but what about these CL group games - is it now too late for news this evening ??
 
hammocity said:
The only live games on TV going back in the day were the FA Cup final, England Internationals and if an English team was in the European cup final that was shown.

Really confused about your September comment, it’s nothing to do with 3pm kick offs which is what was originally discussed.
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Don’t forget showing games they’d take an ad break at corners only to come back and find a goal had been scored haha ..
 
City are playing Red Star Belgrade away on Wednesday 13 December.
The semi final of the Club World Cup is on 19th. As the Palace match in between cannot take place on Friday, surely it will be postponed? Saturday to Tuesday the club would push back on.
 
More than a bit pissed off to see we have been paired on the same nights as Newcastle.
I was looking forward to watching their games, but couldn’t care less about arsenal and united.
 
chesterbells said:
More than a bit pissed off to see we have been paired on the same nights as Newcastle.
I was looking forward to watching their games, but couldn’t care less about arsenal and united.
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I was also disappointed (and surprised) by that. I was convinced that TNT would have wanted Arsenal and the rags playing on different nights as I would have thought those two attract the biggest viewing figures of the four English clubs.
I might have watched an Arsenal game or two if they were playing one of the big European names but their group is pretty uninspiring.
 
Alfie Budd said:
I was also disappointed (and surprised) by that. I was convinced that TNT would have wanted Arsenal and the rags playing on different nights as I would have thought those two attract the biggest viewing figures of the four English clubs.
I might have watched an Arsenal game or two if they were playing one of the big European names but their group is pretty uninspiring.
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Just as a footnote to this, bearing in mind there is a 5.45pm KO time as well as an 8pm, it turns out that on 3 of the 6 Matchdays we play, Newcastle have a different KO time to us, so hopefully I can still catch some of their action too.
 
MAG said:
Yes, and I think when November picks come out, Bournemouth (H) would also stay at Sat 3pm ... next home game to change for TV is likely to be the Liverpool H (currently on 25 Nov) and then Spurs H (currently on 2 Dec).
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Any idea when these are likely to be please mate? Cheers
 
MAG said:
Yes, and I think when November picks come out, Bournemouth (H) would also stay at Sat 3pm ... next home game to change for TV is likely to be the Liverpool H (currently on 25 Nov) and then Spurs H (currently on 2 Dec).
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Just re that liverpool game, now we know it’s sandwiched between a UCL game the following Tuesday and the international fortnight break beforehand, it presumably has to stay on the Saturday, and if we assume that is a weekend where Sky get first pick and they’d certainly want a game as high profile as this, it’s most likely to be a rather spicy 5.30pm Saturday evening KO at our place. Do you agree @MAG ?

(Not sure if we are continuing to reduce their allocation this season though).
 
Anyone else having issues with the online fixture calendar updating? Have tried refreshing & reloading from the City app but the Newcastle away LC cup game & all UCL fixtures still not appearing.
Have stuck them all in my calendar manually for now which is no major hardship, but thought the whole idea of subscribing to the fixtures is that updated automatically in a timely manner.
 
chesterbells said:
Just re that liverpool game, now we know it’s sandwiched between a UCL game the following Tuesday and the international fortnight break beforehand, it presumably has to stay on the Saturday, and if we assume that is a weekend where Sky get first pick and they’d certainly want a game as high profile as this, it’s most likely to be a rather spicy 5.30pm Saturday evening KO at our place. Do you agree @MAG ?

(Not sure if we are continuing to reduce their allocation this season though).
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There have been one or two instances of Sky and BT (as it then was) having to swap timings on a Saturday due to police advice.
The derby that we won 2-0 at the swamp when Bernado scored that weird goal was one of them - the game had to be on the Saturday due to CL fixtures and was picked by Sky only for GMP to not allow a 5:30pm kickoff. It swapped kickoff times with whatever game BT had picked. I can see that happening for the Liverpool game.
 
Alfie Budd said:
There have been one or two instances of Sky and BT (as it then was) having to swap timings on a Saturday due to police advice.
The derby that we won 2-0 at the swamp when Bernado scored that weird goal was one of them - the game had to be on the Saturday due to CL fixtures and was picked by Sky only for GMP to not allow a 5:30pm kickoff. It swapped kickoff times with whatever game BT had picked. I can see that happening for the Liverpool game.
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Fair point. Well 7.45 or 8pm would be considered even worse in that regard, so you’re suggesting maybe 12.30pm Saturday?
 
chesterbells said:
Fair point. Well 7.45 or 8pm would be considered even worse in that regard, so you’re suggesting maybe 12.30pm Saturday?
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Just saying that it’s a possibility.
The derby that we lost that would have clinched the title in the Centurions season was a Saturday 5:30pm kickoff so the police were happy enough for that to go ahead. There doesn’t seem to be any hard and fast rule.
 
Sorry guys, was away ... but the fixtures calendar here on Page 1 is now updated with both Carabao Cup R3 as well as CL group games.

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