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Steve Bone

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Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

And it's pretty much all for TV, isn't it?

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

I saw earlier this week that Middlesbrough against Millwall on Good Friday, which, bear in mind, is a bank holiday, has been switched from 3pm to 12.30pm.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

leaving the Millwall fans to get up in the middle of Thursday night if they want to get there.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

Not able to get a train, probably, or any public transport.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

So how are they going to do that?

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

They're probably not.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

And that's with about a month's notice, isn't it?

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

So much for them saying, oh, we'll give plenty of notice with all these kick-off times being changed.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

Well, they do with some of them, but they don't with all of them.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

And we've seen it ourselves at Pompey, you know, we've got the Saturday, what was a Saturday, three o'clock kick-off against Derby next week is now Monday night.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

I see that our Easter Monday... Even on a Monday, you're not safe.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

Easter Monday against Oxford was 3 o'clock.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

It's now 12.30.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

I think it's just... I don't know.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

Remember when we used to play it Saturday?

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

Saturday at 3 o'clock.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

I do think... Clearly, the TV people pay a lot of money and they have... They put their bid into the league, the Football League or the Premier League, and they say, this is...

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

how much we're willing to pay this is what we want and the leagues say the leagues have the final say you know they don't have to accept these bids but they do at what point do we need to stop and say right clubs and clubs fans need to have a bit of a say at the outset up front before these bids are agreed about the number of changes that are being allowed because i think it's as i say i think it's gone too far i think there should be a limit on how many

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

It wouldn't surprise me.

Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE BLASTS EFL CHANGES

I think attendance money as a percentage of clubs' income has steadily gone down, hasn't it?