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Originally Posted by telegramsam
The argument against 3pm games being shown live on tv is that it would effect the match attendances at lower league clubs,but surely those that want to go to an actual game will go regardless? I've not been to a game of any sort for over 20 years simply because it got to costly.
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I agree, it dates back to a time when people thought the biggest games would clash and attending football was cheap. In practice now the biggest games are played at other times anyway.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Is it perhaps timed for when the Premiership and EFL TV rights are sold together?
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It will be, but if it was simply about the Premiership clubs maximising TV revenue then the Spanish approach of moving every game to another time slot would work better, and fans would barely notice.