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Inspired by the Thursday Night Football thread. When the Premier League was created, 3pm Saturday kickoffs were banned from being televised, the idea being that if they were televised it would affect attendances at lower league teams. This ban is still here to this day. Because of this, the "big" clubs constantly have their games shunted around to avoid the traditional timeslot, which is bad for the people who actually go to the matches.

Isn't it about time that this got shelved? The games are televised live abroad, it seems crazy that in modern times this ban still lives on.

Yes. any of us can within a couple of minutes find a stream of any 3pm saturday kick off and watch in perfect quality irish tv, nbc, norwegian tv broadcasting these matches live

the 3pm ban is out-dated

there are some funny rights restrictions too. match of the day and football focus are not allowed on i-player for example

I really like the early game / soccer saturday / late game format for a Saturday

as a tv viewer yes

as someone who goes to games, especially away games. nightmare. only getting worse too

This.  I would still have SS on even if i could watch my game of choice live though at 3pm on a different screen.

MOTD is available on iplayer but they're only allowed to put it up at midnight on Sunday

Premiership football version of NFL RedZone could not come quickly enough.

But then we'd lose out on Paul Merson inaccurately describing goals whilst mispronouncing foreign players' names.

Is it possible that the EPL are happy to discourage away fans?
A lot of clubs can sell out without them, and they bring a high cost with them (Policing etc...).

Au contraire, Blackadder. We get him to present it and call every play.

There comes a point soon where it becomes like the NFL and the crowd are there to be like the studio audience on a sitcom- what really matters is the TV viewer.

Anyone can find a pub that shows them if they care enough anyway.

Personally like the ban.

Otherwise fans of smaller clubs would stay away in droves and the rich get richer. Dont see it being overturned in near future thankfully.

Personally, I don't think anyone is saying "I'm was going to watch Oxford United, but now WBA are on the telly at 3pm I'm not going to bother". If you were swayed by matches on TV, you'd surely just watch West Brom at 12 and by the time that finished it would be hard to get out to a live match.

the Arsenal Leicester game on feb 13 was a 3pm kick off

bear in mind sky announced their feb slate of premier league fixtures in december

today it has been moved to sunday 14th at midday

ludicrously late. coaches and train tickets had been booked etc

this sort of thing really does take the piss out of live away supporters.......

You would think the clubs would refund any ticket holders pre booked non refundable train tickets etc given the money they will get from the TV rights.

Should be a simple rule that tv companies have to put all their TV dates 3 months in advance, with the exception of the final month of the season where I'll give them a month.

nice that they have stuck to this. not.

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I get totally why sky want to show it and why the clubs want the TV money.  Fans shouldn't be out of pocket who can prove they have bought tickets/got season tickets imo for any pre paid non refundable expenses to get to the game.

Even if they didn't go that far a free pint/pie at the game would be a nice touch.Travelling away supporters do just get shafted so hard in most ways even though they are the most loyal of all supporters generally.

Two days ago, tickets went on sale for non-season ticket holders for Spurs v Arsenal. All fixtures at that time are 3pm Saturday because we don't have Sky's schedule. You're just guessing whether it's going to be on TV.

Today, they announced it's being moved forward to 12:45, so at least it's Saturday still.

They should have these details sorted before fans have to commit to the tickets.

Last year I bought flights from Dublin to Hamburg to see a St Pauli match. I bought the tickets a couple of months in advance and we got flights back on Sunday evening just in case it was moved from the Saturday to the Sunday.
A couple of weeks before the match, they moved it to Monday!

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cheers

(spot the mug who booked his train tickets early. lad has never been to the emirates, part of his birthday present)

Tried to get tickets at the Emirates for the same reason, looks like you have to be an Arsenal member to have any chance.

Spotted that they charge fans to join the season ticket waiting list. It probably shouldn't have but was a serious wtf moment when I read that.

i am a lcfc season ticket holder and my away ticket points didn't get me high enough up the list to guarantee seats

fortunately, a go to 90% of games friend can't make it all weekend

Result. unlike the likely outcome at the Emirates.

Spurs do that, too. You join the membership scheme at the second lowest tier and in exchange, you can:

1. Buy tickets before they go on general sale (ie, you can buy tickets that aren't restricted view or otherwise poor); and
2. Get a birthday card signed by Poch and the players (well, it has their signatures on anyway)

You can also get and retain your place on the season ticket waiting list, which I have done for the last six years or so and will be relevant when it comes to the new stadium.

All for £50 a year. You don't get a discount on the ticket price btw.

I'm 4,000-odd on the list, so that means they're making at least £200,000 a year out of us. As I've been on the list for six years, I'd expect there are a fair few behind me.

Nice work if you can get it!

Son is keen LCFC fan but we were too slow getting season tickets. Managed to buy tickets for the home end for the league game at White Hart Lane - they were happy to sell them to non-members only a few weeks before the game and post them to a LE postcode.

Looked at the Man U away game and £200 hospitality tickets are available. They have exec boxes at £150k a season!

I object to the expression "home end".

We have seating all the way around these days you know!

Wow, you can get an adult season ticket for £149 at Valley Parade. 

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8 games tonight
1 game broadcast legally to watch in uk and it's aston villa
lol