December fixture changes

[Sideshow Bob]

I just heard that EPL matches are 90 minutes long this season - can anyone confirm??

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

interesting fact for you...
before floodlights, there were very few games that kicked late
too dark to play later on wasn't it

Apropos of your point. I remember wagging school as a kid to watch us play Coventry in a cup game in the afternoon on a weekday. The reason being there was a three-day week at the time so no lights in the evening. We won in one of the best games I've ever seen (4 or 5-2 (off the top of my head)).

[Original Dub]

The question of the New Year’s Day traditional fixture is quite interesting so I did a quick look on Google. I only spent 15 minutes on it and there was no obvious site with a full history, so this is hardly authoritative, but I did spot a couple of interesting things.

While I can’t find any reference to games on New Year’s Day in the first Football League season of 1888-9, there was certainly one on Wednesday 1st January 1890 in Bolton, where goal nets were used for the first time.

One thing that did surprise me was that New Year’s Day has only been a bank holiday in England and Wales since 1974. Now I would have been 14 at that time but I do not remember it at all - I can't believe my Dad didn't mention it! In Scotland it has been a bank holiday since 1871. So clearly English New Year's Day fixtures predate a formal bank holiday by a very long way.

If anyone knows more about how this fixture became such a tradition I would be interested to learn.

Now that is interesting.

[Wonderwall]

The question of the New Year’s Day traditional fixture is quite interesting so I did a quick look on Google. I only spent 15 minutes on it and there was no obvious site with a full history, so this is hardly authoritative, but I did spot a couple of interesting things.

While I can’t find any reference to games on New Year’s Day in the first Football League season of 1888-9, there was certainly one on Wednesday 1st January 1890 in Bolton, where goal nets were used for the first time.

One thing that did surprise me was that New Year’s Day has only been a bank holiday in England and Wales since 1974. Now I would have been 14 at that time but I do not remember it at all - I can't believe my Dad didn't mention it! In Scotland it has been a bank holiday since 1871. So clearly English New Year's Day fixtures predate a formal bank holiday by a very long way.

If anyone knows more about how this fixture became such a tradition I would be interested to learn.

Take a Bow son, I didnt know any of that!

[phips]

I just heard that EPL matches are 90 minutes long this season - can anyone confirm??

how long are you watching football?

[DoomMerchant]

I just heard that EPL matches are 90 minutes long this season - can anyone confirm??

Actually then there is overtime...so.

Cheers