I used to work with one of the guys that did the PL draw and the number of rules that they had to incorporate made the possible fixture list quite limited.
We are regularly involved in Europe so that is going to cause our games to be either early or late. We can’t play at home at the same time as Everton. Our home and away games have to be varied and so on.
Given that we have Thursday night football this season, the international breaks are amongst the few times that they can fit an early kick off in. I’m assuming whoever has that TV package would prefer to have us more often as we are one of the bigger draws.
… or if Man City were to play tomorrow or Monday.
I agree that greater analysis is needed however there are matches regularly on Sundays and Mondays these days so it’s quite possible that a ‘top’ team gets greater benefit than we do!
After such a promising start to the season I’m already of the mindset that anything less than three points would be a disappointment. I know a lot of people think this lot are crap but when I saw them at Utd they weren’t too shabby , and they always manage to give us a game. Hate this fixture tbh , shite ground , plastic club , toxic fans. Come on Reds , make a statement.
Watching the world athletics recently and one of the commentators mentioned that athletes didn’t like the early starts times as their bodies were not quite ready/right until later in the day.
Because TV audiences want to watch us.
Definitely not coincidence… BT/Sky has most probably polled this: to them it’s always the numbers. We don’t like playing early but we are the bigger draw
I’ll tinfoil joke as much as I like thanks very much, I neither need, require or give two hoots as to whether you think they’re funny.
What’s more likely, there’s more money selling us at 12:30 on a Saturday or the whole league management is bent against us? Money, it’s almost always about the money. As for Sundays, it will be about Europe as mentioned above.
And of course Klopp will complain about it. Any and every excuse for a loss or a poor performance. Get it in early and you’re covered in the event of a bad performance.
But then whoever we’re playing probably had a similar number of players on foreign duty too so it’s actually irrelevant.
Because we have more than three times the fans? Should be 100 times more often as we can’t wait to see our amazing red hoard swarm all over the hapless opposition.
