Fixtures Calendar | Latest Update - Pg 28 (and Pg 1)

MK-Blues said:
any one has any idea when april tv fixtures will be announced. should be this week.
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Should be and will be are very different for Premier League in any normal season let alone this one ...

Going by their previous announcements, I had marked Wed 17th in my calendar as a tentative date for April fixtures announcement but I think they might (and should) wait for the Champions League draws on Friday 19th. So maybe later on 19th afternoon otherwise the week after.
 
MAG said:
Should be and will be are very different for Premier League in any normal season let alone this one ...

Going by their previous announcements, I had marked Wed 17th in my calendar as a tentative date for April fixtures announcement but I think they might (and should) wait for the Champions League draws on Friday 19th. So maybe later on 19th afternoon otherwise the week after.
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thank you. yes makes sense. but dont be surprised if they schedule us for sat or sun before knowing if we are to play qf and sf on tue or wed in april. but since liverpool is also involved they might actually wait for the draws. before still shafting us.
 
MAG said:
Should be and will be are very different for Premier League in any normal season let alone this one ...

Going by their previous announcements, I had marked Wed 17th in my calendar as a tentative date for April fixtures announcement but I think they might (and should) wait for the Champions League draws on Friday 19th. So maybe later on 19th afternoon otherwise the week after.
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Well, they didn't wait for the Champions League draw after all ... and now with CL Quarter Final's first leg on Tue or Wed (6th/7th April) between those two games ... as the poster above said, we've been "shafted" with the Sat early kick-off after (on 10th) without knowing if we get the Tue or Wed QF!




Edit: If we get to the CL QF (and we should) ... then if we get the Tue QF, we're definitely not playing first choice XI straight after the international break against Leicester ... and if we get Wed QF, forget giving Leeds a proper game the Sat after ... yup, no agenda ... PL just trying their to close that gap for United and somehow make a title race out of the current situation. (like Pep said - in cre di ble).

Edit 2: The plot thickens ... am going to paste the PL statement below, the fixtures with * are apparently subject to change due to Champions League but funnily only City v Leicester has got an * which is anyway on Saturday (not like it's on Sunday and can move back any further) ... but no * against Leeds game which is more troublesome if QF is on Wed. Who knows what they're doing ... or maybe they know exactly what they're doing!


Here's the official statement:

The first two weekends of Premier League fixtures in April have been rescheduled for live broadcasts in UK​


With all remaining Premier League fixtures this season made available to fans to watch live in the United Kingdom, rescheduled fixtures for Matchweeks 30 and 31 in April have been announced.

Latest amended fixtures​

(all times BST)

Saturday 3 April​

12:30 Chelsea v West Brom (BT Sport)
15:00 Leeds v Sheff Utd (Amazon Prime)
17:30 Leicester v Man City (Sky Sports)*
20:00 Aston Villa v Fulham (Sky Sports)

Sunday 4 April​

12:00 Southampton v Burnley (Sky Sports)
14:05 Newcastle v Spurs (Sky Sports)
16:30 Arsenal v Liverpool (Sky Sports)*
19:30 Man Utd v Brighton (BT Sport)

Monday 5 April​

18:00 Everton v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)
20:15 Wolves v West Ham (Sky Sports)

Friday 9 April​

20:00 Fulham v Wolves (BT Sport)

Saturday 10 April​

12:30 Man City v Leeds (BT Sport)
15:00 Liverpool v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
17:30 Crystal Palace v Chelsea (Sky Sports)

Sunday 11 April​

12:00 Burnley v Newcastle (Sky Sports)
14:05 West Ham v Leicester (Sky Sports)
16:30 Spurs v Man Utd (Sky Sports)
19:00 Sheff Utd v Arsenal (BT Sport)

Monday 12 April​

18:00 West Brom v Southampton (Sky Sports)
20:15 Brighton v Everton (Sky Sports)

*subject to change dependent on participation of Premier League clubs in the UEFA Champions League the next Tuesday
 
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MAG said:
Well, they didn't wait for the Champions League draw after all ... and now with CL Quarter Final's first leg on Tue or Wed (6th/7th April) between those two games ... as the poster above said, we've been "shafted" with the Sat early kick-off after (on 10th) without knowing if we get the Tue or Wed QF!




Edit: If we get to the CL QF (and we should) ... then if we get the Tue QF, we're definitely not playing first choice XI straight after the international break against Leicester ... and if we get Wed QF, forget giving Leeds a proper game the Sat after ... yup, no agenda ... PL just trying their to close that gap for United and somehow make a title race out of the current situation. (like Pep said - in cre di ble).

Edit 2: The plot thickens ... am going to paste the PL statement below, the fixtures with * are apparently subject to change due to Champions League but funnily only City v Leicester has got an * which is anyway on Saturday (not like it's on Sunday and can move back any further) ... but no * against Leeds game which is more troublesome if QF is on Wed. Who knows what they're doing ... or maybe they know exactly what they're doing!


Here's the official statement:

The first two weekends of Premier League fixtures in April have been rescheduled for live broadcasts in UK​


With all remaining Premier League fixtures this season made available to fans to watch live in the United Kingdom, rescheduled fixtures for Matchweeks 30 and 31 in April have been announced.

Latest amended fixtures​

(all times BST)

Saturday 3 April​

12:30 Chelsea v West Brom (BT Sport)
15:00 Leeds v Sheff Utd (Amazon Prime)
17:30 Leicester v Man City (Sky Sports)*
20:00 Aston Villa v Fulham (Sky Sports)

Sunday 4 April​

12:00 Southampton v Burnley (Sky Sports)
14:05 Newcastle v Spurs (Sky Sports)
16:30 Arsenal v Liverpool (Sky Sports)*
19:30 Man Utd v Brighton (BT Sport)

Monday 5 April​

18:00 Everton v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)
20:15 Wolves v West Ham (Sky Sports)

Friday 9 April​

20:00 Fulham v Wolves (BT Sport)

Saturday 10 April​

12:30 Man City v Leeds (BT Sport)
15:00 Liverpool v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
17:30 Crystal Palace v Chelsea (Sky Sports)

Sunday 11 April​

12:00 Burnley v Newcastle (Sky Sports)
14:05 West Ham v Leicester (Sky Sports)
16:30 Spurs v Man Utd (Sky Sports)
19:00 Sheff Utd v Arsenal (BT Sport)

Monday 12 April​

18:00 West Brom v Southampton (Sky Sports)
20:15 Brighton v Everton (Sky Sports)

*subject to change dependent on participation of Premier League clubs in the UEFA Champions League the next Tuesday
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Yeah seems odd that asterisk against the Leicester game ax it’s already penned in for a Saturday. I hope we come through the international thing unscathed
 
Are they considering swapping our game to 4:30 Sunday if we get a Wednesday CL fixture and Liverpool get Tuesday, as both PL games are on Sky Sports? That’s all I can think of
 
Blue Potato said:
Are they considering swapping our game to 4:30 Sunday if we get a Wednesday CL fixture and Liverpool get Tuesday, as both PL games are on Sky Sports? That’s all I can think of
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It will definitely be this. We really need the 1st leg to be on the Tuesday, otherwise we will have 4 tough games in 9 days.
 
There’s nothing wrong with playing on a Wednesday night and playing at 12:30 on a Saturday. It’s happened for decades and nobody has ever even thought it was an issue for a single second until those two wankers Olly Smeagol and Mary Kloppins had their moans about it this season.

Two full days between game days is absolutely fine.

No different to playing Thursday night in the EL and Sunday at 12:00 or 13:30, which also happens all the time.

This has never been thought of, let alone discussed, by managers or fans ever before those two clowns brought it up earlier this season.

Players come back from international duty from South America on Thursday afternoons sometimes and play, and play well, on the Saturday.

Very often in team sports it’s the recovery after the second game in close succession that is the most important, not the recovery between the first and second games. It’s been talked about for years in rugby league when they play the Good Friday and Easter Monday fixtures. Managers and fitness coaches have found that the most important gap needed for recovery is the gap between the Easter Monday game and the next game after that.

(Sorry to always bring up rugby league but there is far more fitness discussion in that sport than there is in football, football pundits are too obsessed with talking shit so you don’t get good insight into this sort of thing in footy) Once, Sam Tomkins played two games in two days, one for England and one for Wigan. I remember Anthony Watmaugh playing for Queensland one day and Manly the day after once over in Aus as well. And in both instances, the coaches and players we’re fine with it as long as the recovery after the two games was sufficient because that’s the most important recovery period.

So if City play on a Wednesday night, then it’s actually beneficial to play in an early Saturday kick off ahead of the next fixture, as there is a greater recovery time between the Saturday morning and the next game.
 
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