Covscum game on BBC

[LCFCmonkey]

Moved to Sunday 21st March at 2pm.

http://www.lcfc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10274~1924441,00.html

 

[LCFCmonkey]

Now I miss the game due to work commitements. Why can't they have just moved it to 5:45 like normal?!?!

 

[fosseboy83]

there is plenty of time for them to change their minds and show Newcastle instead

 

[FryattFox]

Is it just me or are we getting televised a lot this year?

As an armchair fan, I like it :icon_wink

 

[drummindefender]

there is plenty of time for them to change their minds and show Newcastle instead

:icon_lol:

my cousin who lives in South Africa sent a letter of complaint to the tv company over there as they always show the Newcastle games which are on telly but never the Leicester ones!

 

[fosseboy83]

i feel like a newcastle season ticket holder, they're on that much.

 

[Spanky Fox]

Damn, that day we have a game against our biggest rivals (sunday league) kick off it not yet decided it may be 12pm or 2pm, if it is 2pm i'm gonna miss this game BBC thank you for putting leicester on thank you for fecking up the timing!

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Well there's the increased crowds for a local derby gone out the window.

 

[alex]

Why are the BBC showing this game at all?

 

[Blue Maniac]

Why are the BBC showing this game at all?

To justify the licence fee.

 

[Hazzman]

Why are the BBC showing this game at all?

By the end of March, we will be fighting for top of the table and Cov will be trying to stop themselves from relegation. :icon_bigg

 

[cazlcfc]

By the end of March, we will be fighting for top of the table and Cov will be trying to stop themselves from relegation. :icon_bigg

:icon_wink

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Covscum in League One would be utterly hilarious.

They always seem to manage to fluke their way out of it in the end though. Bastards!

 

[fosseboy83]

Covscum in League One would be utterly hilarious.

They always seem to manage to fluke their way out of it in the end though. Bastards!

at our expense last time

 

[Blue Maniac]

Covscum in League One would be utterly hilarious.

They always seem to manage to fluke their way out of it in the end though. Bastards!

Remember how they always used to do it in the Premiership/First Division? Their time will come. They'll play too close to the edge of the road soon enough :icon_wink

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Was there not a season when Chinny Hill deliberately got the final game moved back to relegate Sunderland? Don't know the full story, just used to be really good mates with a Mackem who was brought up to hate Cov for cheating them into relegation one year.

 

[Motown Fox]

Was there not a season when Chinny Hill deliberately got the final game moved back to relegate Sunderland? Don't know the full story, just used to be really good mates with a Mackem who was brought up to hate Cov for cheating them into relegation one year.

Kick off was delayed 15 minutes but it made all the difference as this shows

Jimmy Hill found that Sunderland fans also have long memories and have far from forgiven him for his part in the Wearsiders' 1977 relegation.

Best-known these days as a veteran TV pundit, Hill was chairman of Coventry City in 1976-77 when three teams went into the last day of the campaign facing relegation – Sunderland, Bristol City and Coventry.

Hill had the kick-off at the Coventry-Bristol City game delayed for 15 minutes because of "crowd congestion" and when news came through that Sunderland had lost to Everton, he had the result announced over the tannoy.

That sent the message to both teams that – provided neither scored – they would stay up at Sunderland's expense and what followed was a farcical passage of play in which neither side attempted to win.

Hill was reprimanded by the Football Association, but Sunderland's relegation still stood.

Today, in the glare of the Premier League, it would simply never have happened or, had it happened, Hill would have faced being drummed out of football and a legal inquest held.

Sunderland fans have never fully forgotten or forgiven that stain on the game – it goes miners' strike deep in some parts of Wearside – and looks as though it has been passed down from one generation to the next