The Spanish League have been kind enough to announce that next weekend’s game against Athletic Bilbao will take place on Saturday 26th kick off 10pm local time. The game will be shown live in Spain on La Sexta, and on TV3 in Catalunya. So, you just have time to rearrange that party you were organizing. Still no news on kick off times for next week’s Copa Del Rey game at Villarreal. I’ll let you know as soon as I can.
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Titi186 // Jan 19, 2008 at 1:44
Nic I have a question.
You have been in Spain for years and know how the English game works.
At least 3 months before a game the TV people ie Sky Sports, Setanta, BBC sit down and decide when games are going to be played so us fans in England have at least 90 days to schedule our time off work, take advantage of advance travel deals, and organise say hotels etc if the game is far away.
How can fans who live in Spain put up with this? It must be impossible to arrange all the things mentioned above and it surely must be detrimental to the clubs as take me for example, I have to come from London to watch a Barca game so I have to book travel just 1 week before the game (because I can only afford 1 night in the hotel) so the flights are expensive so I can only visit Barca 1-2 times a season.
Is there no end in sight?? Do the Spanish Football Federation ahve any plans to axe the current way of doing things??
Nic // Jan 19, 2008 at 9:55
Hi Titi. I’m afraid I don’t have an answer but I totally agree that the situation is a disgrace. I’ve mentioned this at least a couple of times before -
http://fcbnews.com/coming-games/
http://fcbnews.com/kick-off-times/
The Spanish League seem happy to let the TV companies dictate to them. We have just seen how they have messed up with the cup dates.
Another thing is that in Spain the TV companies are incapable of sticking to the timetables for their programmes, so when they say a film is going to start at 10.30, it could start at any time between 10.15 and 11.00. Why is this so? I have no idea.
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