Strange decision?

[TerryPHELAN]

For the EFL to have fixtures on Monday 29th Dec which is a working day over the holiday period.
Would loved to have gone to Oxford for the away fixture, but work commitments prevent me from doing so.
Surely they could’ve pencilled in Sunday 28th as a date?

 

[J_B]

For the EFL to have fixtures on Monday 29th Dec which is a working day over the holiday period.
Would loved to have gone to Oxford for the away fixture, but work commitments prevent me from doing so.
Surely they could’ve pencilled in Sunday 28th as a date?

Not supposed to play just two days after the previous fixture on Boxing Day. Plus they’re evening kick offs on the Monday.

 

[Darran]

For the EFL to have fixtures on Monday 29th Dec which is a working day over the holiday period.
Would loved to have gone to Oxford for the away fixture, but work commitments prevent me from doing so.
Surely they could’ve pencilled in Sunday 28th as a date?

My son is going and I said to him it’s a bank holiday so keep an eye on the traffic.
He said it isn’t. I thought it was because of the game.

 

[Manselton Jack]

For the EFL to have fixtures on Monday 29th Dec which is a working day over the holiday period.
Would loved to have gone to Oxford for the away fixture, but work commitments prevent me from doing so.
Surely they could’ve pencilled in Sunday 28th as a date?

Me too, if I wasn’t working I'd have gone

 

[TerryPHELAN]

Not supposed to play just two days after the previous fixture on Boxing Day. Plus they’re evening kick offs on the Monday.

I’ll always remember one year in the 80s, we played Cardiff away on the Boxing Day, then had Hereford Utd home on the 27th.
How things have changed.

 

[J_B]

I’ll always remember one year in the 80s, we played Cardiff away on the Boxing Day, then had Hereford Utd home on the 27th.
How things have changed.

My late father remembered watching the Swans on Christmas Day. Apparently in 1924 we played on the 25th, 26th and 27th December in the league.

 

[JackFish]

It was quite common in the days before floodlights for there to be games on Christmas, Boxing Day and the nearest Saturday, which could be the following day as it is this year.

Same thing over Easter as well, it was normal to play on the Friday & Monday bank holidays and Easter Saturday. In the 30s we played Exeter away on Good Friday, Newcastle away the following day and then back down to Swansea for the home game against Exeter on the Monday!

 

[Darran]

It was quite common in the days before floodlights for there to be games on Christmas, Boxing Day and the nearest Saturday, which could be the following day as it is this year.

Same thing over Easter as well, it was normal to play on the Friday & Monday bank holidays and Easter Saturday. In the 30s we played Exeter away on Good Friday, Newcastle away the following day and then back down to Swansea for the home game against Exeter on the Monday!

Players aren’t as fit today as they were back then Big M.

 

[Treehuggerjack]

Yep whilst smoking a woodbine before the game and at half time

 

[Captain_Sham]

It was quite common in the days before floodlights for there to be games on Christmas, Boxing Day and the nearest Saturday, which could be the following day as it is this year.

Same thing over Easter as well, it was normal to play on the Friday & Monday bank holidays and Easter Saturday. In the 30s we played Exeter away on Good Friday, Newcastle away the following day and then back down to Swansea for the home game against Exeter on the Monday!

I remember this set of games like it wasd yesterday. It was th eEaster holidays and we were gunning for promotion. Games on consecutive days. The only time in my life. We missed out on Promotion after getting walloped by Watford on the penultimate game of the season.

 

[TerryPHELAN]

And I see the top division Boxing Day fixtures aren’t no more apart from Man U.
What happened to that tradition?

 

[Ringwood]

The fixtures have been out since July.. surely if fans want to go to a game plenty of time to plan it

 

[PSumbler]

The fixtures have been out since July.. surely if fans want to go to a game plenty of time to plan it

Christmas though was only announced at the end November though !

 

[Ringwood]

Christmas though was only announced at the end November though !

Still gives a month to organise though if the motivation to go is there.