Maybe it's easier to get kids into it this way? If you live in somewhere like Bury or Oldham, you can take the kids to Gigg Lane or Boundary Park and watch the live Man Utd or City game at 12 or 5:30. If the kids are being led astray by their glory hunting mates at school, might make all the...
According to the Everton site:
Sky currently showing that they are not showing a 1:30pm game that day, I guess they can now decide right at the last minute if they want to?
8 of our first 12 games will have been on TV by then - maybe they think people will have had enough of watching little old Brighton.
Either that or they're worried Brighton v Palace will be PROPER NAWTY and not safe for family viewing.
Stoke was the only game I wasn't going to be able to make before Christmas... now I can. Probably the only Albion fan happy about that one, I realise. What a glamour tie for Sky, eh?
EDIT - Actually these also mean I now can't make West Ham away :(