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Again - I’m really not trying to downplay the inconvenience of some fans trying to get to matches at Christmas due to TV, or frustration that they won’t be able to make it because it’s an evening kick off. Or trying to get to a Boxing Day match at all if you are a long distance fan. This is...

Agreed I’ve said in other answers that if you intended to travel on trains to the Amex from outside London for example - and back that night. Then of course that won’t be possible . But then that will have been known when the game was scheduled on a Boxing Day back in June.

I agree. 3pm is better for many. But the implication that it will be impossible to get there (and back) or that there will be no public transport or transport laid on by the clubs etc is claimed by people with very short memories. Whether at 5.15pm or 8pm - it’s the same operation. Of course...

Last time there was a evening match on Boxing Day - there was multiple special transport options (park and ride, trains, coaches, buses) between Brighton and London and Lewes and Rest of Sussex to get people there. Which they did and it passed off without incident. There will be this time as...

If the several other matches that have been on Boxing Day at the Amex are a precedent then yes there will be. Presumably the reason it’s taken em an extra week to negotiate these games etc is to plan for this stuff.

We have had multiple games on Boxing Day at the Amex now including v Arsenal at 5.15pm a few years back. The club spent ££ and laid on free coaches from Lewes to Falmer and elsewhere, arranged extra park and rides and there were bespoke trains from London to Brighton and back for the Arsenal...