When will we know about Sunday and Monday games

[NEKSoccer]

I see where all (if not most) of the EPL games are on Saturday. When will we know when the SKY Sports Sunday afternoon and Monday night games will be? I'm sure a few games will be rescheduled.

[dbiesecker]

They'll start rescheduling matches almost immediately. But, it will continue all through the season. Typically, I think it usually happens about 2 months prior to the matches.

Expect all the big derby matches to be moved. Also, the marquee matchups.

Whatever you do, don't make travel plans for any match with a tight constraint on times.

[M]

Sky has typically scheduled televised Premiership games, before the season begins, up until approx. Christmas/New Year. After that, televised games have been selected closer to the actual date of each game, presumably so that they can select games that are of a more critical nature the later on in the season it gets.

They didn't seem to do this for First Division games last season though. Even in the time up 'til Christmas, they were choosing televised games closer to the actual date of each game. I guess this may have been because they were relatively late in picking up the contract for televising the First Division after ITV Digital went bust.

[Toon³]

Don't they have to sort out who owns the rights to show the football yet?
The Europen Court had ordered the Premier League to stop Sky from having a monopoly on the live football. There are 3 packages avaliable. All Sundays games plus first choice of which ones they are. Saturday games at 1:00pm or 5:00pm, and Monday games. There will be no more mid-week games. The only problem with this is that there is nothing to say that Sky can't buy all 3 packages and keep it's monopoly. And because Sky is so rich it will probably stay the same and be a complete waste of time and money. I don't care i've got Sky :)

[michaec]

Originally posted by Toon_toon
Don't they have to sort out who owns the rights to show the football yet?
The Europen Court had ordered the Premier League to stop Sky from having a monopoly on the live football. There are 3 packages avaliable. All Sundays games plus first choice of which ones they are. Saturday games at 1:00pm or 5:00pm, and Monday games. There will be no more mid-week games. The only problem with this is that there is nothing to say that Sky can't buy all 3 packages and keep it's monopoly. And because Sky is so rich it will probably stay the same and be a complete waste of time and money. I don't care i've got Sky :) The current contract covers next season. What they're negotiating now is a new contract starting 2004-2005.

[Wide Boy]

It seems that the first tranche of live televised games (which will therefore be rescheduled) will be announced on Wednesday 25 June.

[Wide Boy]

Now announced by Sky:

http://msn.skysports.com/skysports/article/0,,1-1095044,00.html