West Ham has become a Sunday afternoon team these days following their qualification for European football and David Moyes – along with many other of us – isn’t sure that’s a good thing.
And the removal of games from the once traditional day of the week should surely have seen the same happen to an ancient TV football blackout law in the UK which prohibits Saturday matches from being shown live between 2:45pm and 5:15pm.
The truth is that such games and all others can now be seen on any number of pirate streams and it seems somewhat bizarre that the TV authorities and/or clubs haven’t caught up with the realities of broadcasting in the 21st century.
Clubs could probably earn as much money if they decided to ditch the current bunch – BT, Sky and Amazon – by supplying on line season tickets to their fans world wide.
As shown by the link above there are many good reasons for scrapping the decision not to show games given that it is now 62 years old and was decided ahead of the Premier League being formed,
Moyes meanwhile says: “It feels very strange to play on a Saturday.
It’s incredible. I think today is Saturday and we’re doing the press conference because we have had a year of Sunday football.
Let’s be fair it is great we are playing a Saturday. I think it is the tradition in this country. It has always been a football day, certainly in the generation I have been brought up in, it has been a Saturday.
I think when you are given Sunday – Wednesday – Saturday it is slightly different. “
