Was thinking more that as both attendances of city and tigers have significantly increased since 7 may 2011 that was the exception to the rule and that both clubs will not be allowed to play on the same day again (regardless of differing kick off times).
May 2011 was before Tigers built their latest stand and increased their capacity. Am sure police, council etc have said that city and tigers wouldn't be allowed to play on the same day (even at different times) due to traffic gridlock/access to Royal Infirmary.
And as already pointed out it...
Would have given Nugent & Futacs as chance with waghorn as plan b. Vardy would be my plan z on current form. Vardy prove me wrong with a hat trick:icon_wink
Am also glad that the game is on the saturday but am puzzled that as the last day of the season has been on a sunday for a number of years that this season bbc/sky need it to be moved for them to show the games.
A fair point regarding home games but then I guess the rugby fixture planners didnt expect the football league to shift the last day of the season from sunday to saturday to accomodate tv money; so would have assumed our game was definite sunday k.o.
As much as it pains me to defend the eggchasers, its the football league at fault. When the rugby fixtures were published the last day of the championship was on 8th may. But bbc/sky have flashed the tv cash & the games have moved to 7th.
Don't know if this has been posted anywhere else on the forum (apologies if it has) but I've just noticed that following the change, both us & tigers (they kick off at 3pm) are playing at home on 7th May. As both theirs and ours are the last games of football/rugby seasons neither game can be...
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