England national team

[andyh]

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I guess there is every chance the residents of Mexico City will stay home if they beat England and progress to the quarter finals, just because kick off is a few hours earlier.

[Dave]

Well, quite. The opportunity for a potential extra six hours of partying doesn't feel like a nailed-on fix to the problem.

[Somniloquism]

Reports this morning that both FA's were against FIFA's decision. Not stating it is the reason FIFA "backed down", but seems to kill the cheating Mexicans theory.

Edit: Surely it is only a U-Turn if a decision is made to move it officially, then they move it back. Is considering a move but not doing it a U-turn?

[Nev]

Bromsgrove Sporting started selling tickets for an outdoor fanzone which was very premature. I went to bed thinking it might happen not that it was confirmed.

[exigo]

It'll be even more chaos if there's a three hour storm delay to kick off.

[paul_e]

Reports this morning that both FA's were against FIFA's decision. Not stating it is the reason FIFA "backed down", but seems to kill the cheating Mexicans theory.

Edit: Surely it is only a U-Turn if a decision is made to move it officially, then they move it back. Is considering a move but not doing it a U-turn?

Moving the game would have also meant changing the kick off time for Norway vs Brazil (to remove the risk of an overlap if England went to extra time) so I can imagine both of those teams having something to say as well. Overall I get that the scheduling isn't great for England fans but plenty of other games have been at times that were really shit for 1 of the teams involved, it's just the nature of the event and I think they've generally done a good job of making games as accessible as possible.