: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:16 pm  

City's second game of the season, at home to Everton, was announced as postponed (due to Everton's Europa League commitments) when the fixture list was published. Must be a record for the fastest ever postponement.

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:25 pm  

Cibaman wrote:

City's second game of the season, at home to Everton, was announced as postponed (due to Everton's Europa League commitments) when the fixture list was published. Must be a record for the fastest ever postponement.

Same will happen for the games involving Villa and Fulham also.

Thought first round of UEFA Cup/Europa League always happened around these dates so wouldn't be the first time.

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:26 pm  

Cibaman wrote:

City's second game of the season, at home to Everton, was announced as postponed (due to Everton's Europa League commitments) when the fixture list was published. Must be a record for the fastest ever postponement.

One of 3 to go already. Arsenal and Villa are also involved in European qualifiers that week.

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:32 pm  

Lord_Percy wrote:

One of 3 to go already. Arsenal and Villa are also involved in European qualifiers that week.

Didnt they know that already? Why didnt they pair Everton with Arsenal or Villa ?

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:45 pm  

Newcastle v leeds in a pre season at sid james!

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:46 pm  

Lord_Percy wrote:

One of 3 to go already. Arsenal and Villa are also involved in European qualifiers that week.

Pfft. Qualification, how smalltime

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:05 pm  

EXILEDHULLADGATESHEAD wrote:

Newcastle v leeds in a pre season at sid james!

Championship or League One thread, please.

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:12 pm  

Lord_Percy wrote:

One of 3 to go already. Arsenal and Villa are also involved in European qualifiers that week.

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Pfft. Qualification, how smalltime

Europa League first round games actually, not qualifiers thank you

Cibaman wrote:

Didnt they know that already? Why didnt they pair Everton with Arsenal or Villa ?

Yeah they knew that, I knew we would have this game a few weeks back so FA must have known a long time and it would mean logic in that case to pair these teams together.

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:36 pm  

Dan_FC wrote: Yeah they knew that, I knew we would have this game a few weeks back so FA must have known a long time and it would mean logic in that case to pair these teams together. Sounds like it's hard enough to please everyone as it is without adding in Euro fixtures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html#097608

Dan_FC wrote: Yeah they knew that, I knew we would have this game a few weeks back so FA must have known a long time and it would mean logic in that case to pair these teams together. Sounds like it's hard enough to please everyone as it is without adding in Euro fixtures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html#097608

: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:43 pm  

The Boy TC wrote: Sounds like it's hard enough to please everyone as it is without adding in Euro fixtures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html#097608 Something along those lines was published on the Everton website on Monday, interestingly one paragraph word for word - Quite strange! Still, certain fixtures are manually put together so why can't they input these ones too. It's only a couple more. In fact virtually the whole thing was onthe Everton website http://www.evertonfc.com/news/fixture-confusion.html

The Boy TC wrote: Sounds like it's hard enough to please everyone as it is without adding in Euro fixtures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html#097608 Something along those lines was published on the Everton website on Monday, interestingly one paragraph word for word - Quite strange! Still, certain fixtures are manually put together so why can't they input these ones too. It's only a couple more. In fact virtually the whole thing was onthe Everton website http://www.evertonfc.com/news/fixture-confusion.html