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TVOS- not exactly true.  The Liverpool vs Burnley game was moved by tv 2 weeks before the announcement of the Burnley vs Man Utd game. It was because of that move the rearranged game could be slotted in after Utd went to the PL to tell them that we both had a spare mid week. Burnley vs Fulham will be played on one of the nights of the CL or if both teams go out the fa cup I’d imagine.

Quote from: TVOS on Mon 04 Jan 2021 00:12

Quote from: ClaretandBlue06 on Sun 03 Jan 2021 22:23

TVOS- not exactly true.  The Liverpool vs Burnley game was moved by tv 2 weeks before the announcement of the Burnley vs Man Utd game. It was because of that move the rearranged game could be slotted in after Utd went to the PL to tell them that we both had a spare mid week. Burnley vs Fulham will be played on one of the nights of the CL or if both teams go out the fa cup I’d imagine.

... which is why I quoted the Football Yearbook, published in September, with the fixtures as they were back then.

Burnley V Man Utd and Man City V Aston Villa have had no impact on that though, and have not forced any game to be rescheduled as the rest of the fixtures were scheduled first.

It was announced right from the start of the season that that would be a split midweek (replacing the split weekend from last season to allow a winter break) with half the fixtures being played midweek beginning 11th Jan and the other half week bkginning 18th Jan, which is what was announced in early December (e.g. Leicester V Chelsea is Tues 19th Jan with neither side having any games in hand.)

Man City V Brighton and Aston Villa V Tottenham were scheduled for the first split midweek and so the 'extra' game between Man City v Aston Villa has been put into the free slot on the second split midweek.

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Quote from: TVOS on Mon 04 Jan 2021 00:12

Quote from: ClaretandBlue06 on Sun 03 Jan 2021 22:23

TVOS- not exactly true.  The Liverpool vs Burnley game was moved by tv 2 weeks before the announcement of the Burnley vs Man Utd game. It was because of that move the rearranged game could be slotted in after Utd went to the PL to tell them that we both had a spare mid week. Burnley vs Fulham will be played on one of the nights of the CL or if both teams go out the fa cup I’d imagine.

... which is why I quoted the Football Yearbook, published in September, with the fixtures as they were back then.

Burnley V Man Utd and Man City V Aston Villa have had no impact on that though, and have not forced any game to be rescheduled as the rest of the fixtures were scheduled first.

It was announced right from the start of the season that that would be a split midweek (replacing the split weekend from last season to allow a winter break) with half the fixtures being played midweek beginning 11th Jan and the other half week bkginning 18th Jan, which is what was announced in early December (e.g. Leicester V Chelsea is Tues 19th Jan with neither side having any games in hand.)

Man City V Brighton and Aston Villa V Tottenham were scheduled for the first split midweek and so the 'extra' game between Man City v Aston Villa has been put into the free slot on the second split midweek.

This is hard work!

Throughout this, I have constantly referred to my post being based on what is printed in the ex-Rothmans Yearbook, published in September. I'm looking at it now as I type.

There is no mention there of a split midweek, so since I don't follow the Premier League closely, that's news to me, but thanks for the heads up.

Any announcement in December is after the printing of the reference book I've mentioned and which I was looking at when I initially posted!!

I’d quite while you are ah ad TVOS!