Everton fans should be fuming as new FA update emerges
Everton fans will be fuming at the news that their FA Cup clash with Crystal Palace has been moved to Thursday 4 January for television coverage.
A Thursday-night away game in London, shortly after Christmas and the new year, is further proof that the organisers do not pay fans a second thought when it comes to fixture scheduling.
The Crystal Palace fixture will now require away fans to make the trip from Liverpool to London for an eight o’clock kick-off in the middle of the week – with no regard paid to how they will get home following the game.
It’s not just Everton fans who will suffer, either. The official FA Cup Twitter account shared the televised games, as Manchester United travel to Wigan on Monday 8 January and Burnley travel to Tottenham on Friday 5 January.
The other televised games are Newcastle v Sunderland, Middlesbrough v Aston Villa and Arsenal v Liverpool, with three all-Premier League ties selected for coverage.
This has emerged as yet another sign that the organisers at the top of the game have no regard for travelling fans, with those attending the games once again taken for granted, although you can be sure they will be full of praise for the atmosphere at the games they want to show.
They treat fans as humans when it suits them, but otherwise will happily force fans into near-impossible journeys to watch their team while they sit and line their pockets with more TV money.
Fans will be fuming with the news and rightly so. This also comes amid the threat of further train strikes which could cause further disruption for travelling fans as has been seen on numerous occasions already this season.
A late kick-off, on a Thursday night, shortly after the Christmas period. Laid out like that, things look just as bad as they really are, with the obvious lack of respect or consideration for travelling fans a reminder that yet again those at the top simply do not care.
In other Everton news, Sean Dyche was quizzed on Anthony Gordon ahead of the Newcastle clash.