Sunday, January 12, 2003
Full time: Do you remember the good old days when all football matches used to be at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon? OK, so you couldn't watch any of them on television until Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon, and even then only twelve minutes of highlights if you were lucky, but at least you knew where you stood. By 5pm Saturday every match was over and there was a definitive league table that would stand for the following 166 hours. Now there are matches scattered across the week for the benefit of the satellite audience, and league positions are much delayed and far more meaningless. "Manchester United closed the gap on leaders Arsenal to two points as they beat West Bromwich Albion" may sound good on a Saturday, but 24 hours later "Arsenal re-established their five-point cushion at the top of the Premiership" is rather more like reality. I'm sure one day Rupert Murdoch will succeed in getting all ten Premiership matches played (and screened) at different times during the week, just to maximise viewing figures, but give me the 4:45 final score videprinter any day... Birmingham 0-4 Arsenal
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