Steve Bone
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And it's pretty much all for TV, isn't it?
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.
leaving the Millwall fans to get up in the middle of Thursday night if they want to get there.
Not able to get a train, probably, or any public transport.
So how are they going to do that?
And that's with about a month's notice, isn't it?
So much for them saying, oh, we'll give plenty of notice with all these kick-off times being changed.
Well, they do with some of them, but they don't with all of them.
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.
I see that our Easter Monday... Even on a Monday, you're not safe.
Easter Monday against Oxford was 3 o'clock.
I think it's just... I don't know.
Remember when we used to play it Saturday?
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...
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
It wouldn't surprise me.
I think attendance money as a percentage of clubs' income has steadily gone down, hasn't it?