- Aug 31, 2012
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because in Italy,Spain and Holland it's 2 hours later, so they are kicking off in their evening and not as late at night. why should we kick off at 7:45 our time, but 9:45 theirs it doesn't always allow parents to take their young kids
edit: it also means our players will get home before 4am in the morning
Maybe they change clocks a week after or before we do, but for most of the year, the western part of continental Europe (the Central European time zone) is only 1 hour ahead of us.
That really sucks, I don't see why changing something that was working so well already.
As @WorcesterTHFC mentioned, clearly time zone is not the issue. It probably is about ratings I guess.
I believe it was done to get 2 games an evening back to back - more matches more money I guess.
I can't work out the time differences though. Barcelona is exactly South of us so should be in the same time zone.
Eindhoven is East so should be an hour and Milan is further East still so another extra hour.
But they're all running 1 hour ahead of us.
Is it because of Brexit?