Is there even a good reason for this and seems weird sticking two title rivals in that time. Can imagine it will also be very difficult for Liverpool fans travelling up from London so early to get to the game on time
i think even this season Liverpool have the most 13.30 kick off games.
i just check for arsenal and i think we only have 1, i think we also have the least 13.30 kick-off this calender year.
They are only thinking about Liverpudlians jobs of stealing cars and slinging drugs. If you ask me they doing that city a favour having them kick-off during non business hours.
Liverpool FC should not care about the Liverpool fans in London lol
The secret ingredient is corruption
Many of the comments are concerning an Asian Market why don’t you people talked about Africans1
Why do Newcastle play at half 5 on Saturday every week this season?
Prime time in Saudi apparently
How have people not asked this… Newcastle have had most of their games as late kickoffs
I remember hearing once that they liked to schedule certain games early in the day so that people are less drunk
Wind Klopp up so he can moan
Cause Arab money is corrupting the sport? Lots of dirty deals are taking place behind the scenes and now refs are going to Saudi to ref too?
What a joke
Probably the optimal timing to play. Otherwise, the pitch would get the blame for their poor performance.
More hooligans
The broadcast rights in the UK are split across Sky, Amazon & TNT (previously known as BT Sport). TNT show one game a week - 12:30 on Saturdays.
My guess would be that TNT have decided they’re going to get more subscribers if they focus on one particular team rather than spread their broadcasts around. You’re probably going to get a lot more subscribers from one team if they’ve got a game on that station every month then you would across the board if everyone was on that channel twice over the course of the season.
Obviously the two most suitable candidates for this were always going to be Liverpool & United. They’re the two clubs with the most fans dotted around the country. The further away the fans are, the more likely they’re going to watch their team on TV regularly. This probably applies more to United than Liverpool, but as far as I’m aware, Sky get to pick the first game of the weekend, TNT get the second and then Sky pick from the rest, so it could be a case that Sky are using their first pick to choose United games for the same reason.
Posts here explain why THIS match is at 12:30, and what logic demands some matches are at 12:30, but no-one explains why Liverpool have 13 times been scheduled for a 12:30 Saturday after an international break, with the next being Spurs on 6 times.
Why isn’t this timing equally scheduled throughout the Premier League, or at least among the top 6 teams?
It’s nice to see a United fan pointing out that it’s not just our fans that travel from London
Always assumed it was about not letting the fans get too drunk before the match against a rival