Tuesday fixtures - 28/09

[Jerry St Clair]

Anyone else noticed that nearly all the fixtures throughout the league tonight are relatively local? The only ones I can see that aren't are the ones involving Cardiff and Swansea.

Is this coincidence or deliberate scheduling by the League?

[cmonurz]

LOLeeds 4-5 Preston. The home team 1-0 down, and then 4-1 up after 39 minutes, now a goal behind.

[Ark Royal]

Bizarre factoid: PNE now scored equal LEAST number of goals at home (2) and scored equal MOST goals away (11).

[Jerry St Clair]

Report from Cheltenham 1 - 1 Oxford

Cheltenham - very pretty, passing side, if a little powder puff. Oodles of chances, but you can't walk the ball in in League 2.

Oxford - loathsome team, loathsome supporters. Just utterkunts generally.

[gh7901]

Is this coincidence or deliberate scheduling by the League?

They do usually try to avoid fixtures that would involve loads of travelling for fans in midweek dont they?

[Jerry St Clair]

They do usually try to avoid fixtures that would involve loads of travelling for fans in midweek dont they?

Au contraire. Long midweek trips are often the norm.

[Svlad Cjelli]

They do usually try to avoid fixtures that would involve loads of travelling for fans in midweek dont they?

Au contraire. Long midweek trips are often the norm.

Neither - although some clubs prefer that, because they believe that the drop in attendances that comes from evening games will be less relevant if it's a distant team, they're not allowed to express that as a preference in the fixture compilation process - if they do the request will be disregarded.