Tuesday vs Wednesday?

[MorrisNielson]

Lambert’s seasons sees the shift to Tuesday.
Historical, Monday was generally the weekday for home games, up the 1960’s.
Note Saturday only games for the first league season.
Here’s a breakdown of days. That’s numberwang:

Monday, 80-81, cup?

League only. Without checking, probably Easter Monday/Boxing Day.

[PeterWithesShin]

Stoke away iirc, a bank holiday game I think.

[dave.woodhall]

Stoke away iirc, a bank holiday game I think.

Easter Monday.

[Charlie8182]

Also, I recall a time when midweek kick offs were always at 7.30 instead of 7.45/8.00 nowadays.

[robbo1874]

We need an extra half hour for all our fans coming in from the shires to park up their Range Rovers

[Witton Warrior]

We need an extra half hour for all our fans coming in from the shires to park up their Range Rovers

I have to get my hunter stabled...

[robbo1874]

Hillman?

[Richard E]

We ought to arrange games against Sheffield Wednesday for a Tuesday because then half their players won't be able to get the time off work to play and we will win easily against a weakened team.

[N'ZMAV]

It's a wonder someone has not blamed Hutton for it

Hutton would try and change the day but fail.

[Chris Harte]

Also, I recall a time when midweek kick offs were always at 7.30 instead of 7.45/8.00 nowadays.

Yes, always 7.30pm. And so usually home before or not long after 10pm.

Also Wednesdays were better simply because you'd broken the back of the working week (or school week, if going back far enough) when you went to the game.

I'd love to see a return to 7.30pm Wednesdays, but I assume it'll never happen.

[pooligan]

I could be wrong as my memory is not as good as it was but i seem to recall when i first started to follow Villa in the early sixties that midweek evening games always kicked of at 7 15 pm

[usav]

Lambert’s seasons sees the shift to Tuesday.
Historical, Monday was generally the weekday for home games, up the 1960’s.
Note Saturday only games for the first league season.
Here’s a breakdown of days. That’s numberwang:

Now that is some proper statting.   Very nice.

[dave.woodhall]

I could be wrong as my memory is not as good as it was but i seem to recall when i first started to follow Villa in the early sixties that midweek evening games always kicked of at 7 15 pm

I think they did. Before that, they took place at 3pm midweek before floodlights.

7.45 became standard post-Hillsborough, when clubs and police were hypersensitive to fans arriving late.

[Three Spires Villa]

Always on a Wednesday at 7.30, when I was a young lad, in the mid 70s. Great memories of walking through Aston Park with my Dad and sister in the dark for a Wednesday night match, being in awe of the AV floodlights. For some reason I always think of a game v Blackburn in the cup zero which I think was a draw.

[Three Spires Villa]

Ha, ha don't know what the cup zero is, doh!!!