Villa & Blues to play at home on the same night

[ADVILLAFAN]

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2010/08/17/police-allow-villa-and-blues-games-to-go-ahead-on-same-night-97319-27074583/

2nd leg of our tie against Rapid Vienna and Blues' League Cup game against Rochdale are both kicking off at 7.45pm.

[Dr Butler]

is that right ? I always thought that the Europa cup matches were on a Thursday.

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The Doc

[willywombat]

The first question that comes to my mind is why on earth would Sky pick small heath v Rochdale as their live game? Cant really describe it as an attractive fixture. Mind you it does deliciously illustrate the gulf between us and that shower of shite

[ADVILLAFAN]

is that right ? I always thought that the Europa cup matches were on a Thursday.

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The Doc

Yep - Blues game has been moved to Thursday night as it is being shown on Sky. It is a strange match to pick, usually you want to have the underdog at home to enhance the chances of a shock.

[curiousorange]

is that right ? I always thought that the Europa cup matches were on a Thursday.

UTV
The Doc

They are. It appears the League Cup has Thursday matches now as well.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Theres already a thread open on this.

[Dr Butler]

I can't believe that West Midlands finest are happy with this.

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The Doc

[nuninho]

No problem.  There is only going to be 5 and half thousand or so at the Sty...

Empty seats ma lord!

[pmk1981]

i emailed west midlands police earlier to tell them to "get their finger out and provide us with battons" :-)

[Hookeysmith]

No problem.  There is only going to be 5 and half thousand or so at the Sty...

Empty seats ma lord!

And how many empty seats do you think we will have - i would not take the piss too much, they will be playing lower league team - we will be playing in European competition, something we worked hard for all year and against a decent side - we will struggle to get over 25K, especially as it will be on tv

[Kevin Dawson]

Great!! Can we now kick off at 3.00 on a Saturday against them as well?

[olaftab]

I can't believe that West Midlands finest are happy with this.

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The Doc

I can't believe that West Midlands finest are happy with this.

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The Doc

They are happy as this means  good workout for their  new intakes!

[Chipsticks]

Couldn't imagine to many 'noses being bothered with Rochdale.

Nothing will go off.

[UK Redsox]

I don't mind SHA playing on the same night as Villa. Its WBA playing at the same time that screws up my drive home

[Pete3206]

No problem.  There is only going to be 5 and half thousand or so at the Sty...

Empty seats ma lord!

And how many empty seats do you think we will have - i would not take the piss too much, they will be playing lower league team - we will be playing in European competition, something we worked hard for all year and against a decent side - we will struggle to get over 25K, especially as it will be on tv

25k would be a good gate IMO