This somewhat dumps all over carefully laid monthly plans. Can they do this? Jees.

Unfortunately they can, they've done it hundreds of times in the past and will continue to do so, regardless of how it affects people planning to go to games.

Bolton v Arsenal rescheduled to Wed 1 Feb (originally Tues 31 Jan); kick off 8.00pm

FA Cup televised games announced.

http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/Fixtures


Watford V Spurs is Friday night on ESPN. Everton & Fulham also moved to Friday night (poor Fulham fans).
Liverpool v Man Yoo stays on the Saturday (KO 12:45 on ITV1).
Two games moved for Sunday. Sunderland v Middlesbrough (ITV1) and Arsenal v Villa on ESPN.

The new version of the FA website does not give out all the fixtures

Brighton & Hove Albion or Wrexham v Newcastle United
5.15pm, Saturday 28 January 2012
Live on ESPN

anyone know when the March TV changes will be out?

I was hopeful it might have been this week... I know supporters who have to plan and travel to games are the last consideration when it comes to TV

@ blessedbrian: based on previous history, March TV news is imminent.

For comparison, here are announcement dates of TV reschedules in second half of last and this season:

Liverpool v Arsenal will have to remain on Saturday 3rd March as Arsenal will be playing Milan on Tuesday 6th March. More than likely it'll be a sky game so will probably be a 12:45 kick off. I'm sure Arsene will be delighted with that after the internationals the previous Wednesday.

1245 Confirmed as predicted

All of March announced (some will be subject to FA Cup involvement)

Usual suspects on every week

http://tv.espn.co.uk/gb/espl/espn-news- ... for-march/

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12942,00.html

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news ... march.html
MARCH
Sat 1245 kick offs
3rd Arsene goes to Anfield
10th Sparky's new Team at the Reebok
24th 3rd v 4th at the Bridge

Sat 530 kick offs
10th Moyes Boys Host the Hot Spurs
24th Can Mancini succeed at the Britannia

Sun noon
4th THE North East Derby at what used to be called St James Park

Sun 130
18th Fergie thrown to the wolves
1st April Dalglish returns to St James

Sundays at 4
4th Man U's return to North London
11th Martinez struggles at the Canaries
18th Bolton go to Villa Park
25th Baggies host Geordies
1st April The new PASS masters go to White Hart Lane

MNF at 8
12th Sports Direct.com at the Emirates
19th AVB at the Etihad
26th Fergie dishes out a thrashing to Jol
2nd April Can Kean pull off the double over Man U ??

AT 2:04 or 2:05
4th Just to use up their minimum allocation on TV, Wolves go to the Cottage

Looking even further ahead to league play-offs at Wembley next season:

The Football League and Football Association have reached an agreement regarding the scheduling of the 2012-13 Football League play-off finals at Wembley Stadium. The 2013 Uefa Champions League Final is already due to take place at the same venue on Saturday 25 May.

As a result, the League One and League Two play-off finals will move forward seven days to the weekend of 17-18 May with the regular season finishing a week earlier in both divisions. The Championship play-off final will remain at its original date: Bank Holiday Monday 27 May.

So the play offs will be a week earlier


And the season is also starting a week later

Lots of Midweek games !!!!!

There'll be no Merseyside derby at Anfield on February 25th as it'll be Liverpool V Cardiff at Wembley on February 26th. Kick off 4pm.

Which means that I EXPECT the following changes from Sky

Sat 1245 North London derby

Sun 130 Man U at Norwich

Liverpool v Tottenham can now go ahead as planned on Monday 6th February, as can Wolves v Man United on Sunday March 18th. Still no word from sky or the premier league on whether they're going to bring the North London derby back by a day. Maybe it will go ahead on February 26th along with the Carling cup final.
Also Wigan v West Brom and Fulham v Swansea can both go ahead on Saturday March 17th at 3pm. All other Premier League games on March 17th, 18th and 19th remain under threat at the moment.

Sky are going to show West Ham v Palace at 1245 on Sat 25th so there will be
no Premier League Changes

FA Cup Fourth Round replay is live on ITV:
Middlesbrough v Sunderland
7.45pm, Wed 8 Feb

Fifth Round schedule appears here:
fa-cup-5th-round-draw-t93108.html

FA Cup 5th Round: Two dates & times announced

Sunderland/ Middlesbrough V Arsenal: Saturday 18th February 5:15pm
Stevenage V Tottenham: Sunday 19th February 2pm

As a matter of interest, does anybody know whether or not there are designated dates for any possible 5th round replays. In Arsenal's case the only free dates I can see midweek are Tuesday & Wednesday 21st and 22nd February. Wednesday February 29th is Internationals, they play Milan on Tuesday 6th March and Newcastle on Monday 12th March with the quarter finals scheduled for the following weekend.

Shift the Newcastle game to the saturday and play the replay on the tuesday?

Chelsea v Birmingham City
12.30pm, Saturday 18 February 2012
Live on ESPN

Crawley Town v Stoke City
12noon, Sunday 19 February 2012
Live on ESPN

Liverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion
4.30pm, Sunday 19 February 2012
Live on ESPN


Last year the 4th Round replays were on fifth round day. Chelsea were on Sky on
the Monday night before round 5 and they would not move the game to play replay midweek

At last

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... unday.html

Premier League clubs have agreed to move all matches on the
penultimate weekend of the season to the Sunday to avoid a clash with the FA Cup final on Saturday May 5

If you look at the small print


The only exceptions will be if an English club is involved in the Europa League final the following Wednesday and would prefer to play on the Saturday, and if Sky choose to show a top-flight match in the Saturday lunchtime slot - the Premier League would be contractually obliged to agree to that.

Without wanting to be too presumptious about who will be in the shake-up for the title at the end of the season, neither of the Manchester club's fixtures will be postponed that weekend because of the FA Cup. All four teams involved in the two games are already out of the Cup. I imagine Sky would want to show both fixtures on the same day so they should both be on the Sunday.

Spurs of course are still in the cup and have a decent shout of making the final; their opponents that day Villa are out. Liverpool v Chelsea is an appealing fixture that day for the Saturday early slot, although it could be the Cup final as well, echoing last season's coincidence of City v Stoke.

Yes but the two Manchester clubs could be in the Europa League Final so will want to play on Saturday so they can rest

Monday 7th May is a bank holiday so sky could show a game or two that day if no English team makes the Europa Final.

FA Cup 5th Round
Sunderland v Arsenal: Saturday 18th February 5:15pm

Replay IF required: Arsenal v Sunderland, Tuesday 21st February 7:45pm

Sixth Round weekend has meant that the following will all be postponed


Blackburn v Sunderland
Everton v Arsenal
QPR v Liverpool
Tottenham v Stoke
Aston Villa v Bolton


Also Man City v Chelsea MAY be postponed

This leaves a Sunday at 4 slot for Sky Sports to fill picking one of the following
Fulham v Swansea
Newcastle v Norwich
Wigan v West Brom

I don't suppose there's any word on the Liverpool v Everton game that's not taking place this weekend?

Nothing I've seen. As they both got straight through then no reason why it couldn't be the replay midweek (6/7 March). Proabably plenty of others to pick from though.

I Imagine Sky will want to show it so it will not be during a European midweek