The Premier League England plan to schedule a match on the day before Christmas, December 24, breaking a tradition that has seen only one exception since the competition was renamed in 1992.
The premier want to put a conflict between Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Chelsea on the 24th, to satisfy the television operators, who wanted to move this meeting by 24 hours, since, in principle, it was scheduled for December 23.
A ManUtd-Leeds, last precedent
The English league usually experiences a particularly busy Christmas period, with games from December 23 to January 1, but the date of the 24th has remained clean since 1995, when Manchester United and leeds They collided at Elland Road.
In 2017 there was an attempt to move the matches to this date, but pressure from politicians and fan groups nullified the motion. The explanation, will be the transportation chaos, due to the scarcity of trains running on those dates and this year it will be worse because December 24 is a Sunday.
There is no law or regulation of Premier League which prevents the placing of matches on this date, but it is a kind of unwritten rule in the competition, because of the sacrifices that have already been made on those dates, such as ‘Boxing Day‘ (December 26), when up to ten games can be played.
Source: La Verdad
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