With Chelsea set to take on Liverpool in the second FNF, Richard Edwards examines the gradual shift away from 3pm kick-offs on a Saturday
So distorted has the football calendar now become that the introduction of Friday Night Football is not the revolutionary step it once would have been – today's viewer, after all, is hardly short of options on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
Manchester United's hosting of Southampton on August 19 began another chapter in the scheduling of the national game, as well as offering another resounding poke in the eye of those who still hold 3pm on a Saturday afternoon as the most sacred time of the week.