Hello there. Welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com. How are you?

I hope you're well. Thanks for being here as always. It's very much appreciated. We're heading into a weekend where we play Chelsea.

Yes, it's a big game against Chelsea. Coming on the back of two other big games away at Anfield and away at Stoke in which we drew both only two points from six.

Hello. Hello. Who? What's going on here? What did I do? I pushed something. Was it this? It was that. Oh, I didn't know you could do that.

Hello. Oh, look. And if you do that. Oh, it's doing on this. Hello.

Okay. I'll turn that off now. But yes, Sunday. Sunday. We're playing Chelsea. Assuming, of course, it's guy don't, you know, see fit to change the fixture at short notice.

I mean, it's not as if they don't have any track record of that. If you missed it yesterday, Thursday, the R-Splug game against Leicester was moved from Saturday, the 13th of February at three o'clock.

Nice three o'clock kickoff on a Saturday. You know those things. You used to have them quite a lot, but not anymore. But anyway, sky changed the date of that game.

They moved it from the Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. Well, Sunday at midday. Now the issue with that, of course, was that many people had booked flights and booked hotels because back in December, sky picked their games.

Television fixtures were announced for February. They were all all picked and it was all announced and people with some degree, and I say some degree, they knew that, you know, it's always possible for the TV companies to do this.

You know, they booked their flights and they booked their trains and they booked their hotels and they booked all the things that you do when you go to a football game. Football, of course, as much as we appreciate the fact that our so our London club fans come from far and wide from all over the UK, from Ireland,

every weekend, from all over Europe, from all over the world, they come to these games. So basically what's guy have done by moving this game at such short notice is fuck a whole load of those people like they've completely fucked up their weekends and travel plans and tickets and flights and trains and all the things that you need to do to get to Arsenal.

They've made a complete bollocks of it, not just for people coming from abroad, people from inside the UK as well, we will be coming by train and we'll have booked those in advance to try and get some reasonably priced train tickets because I think I was just into the Tuesday club. Yes, it was the Tuesday club podcast this week and the guy was saying that it costs 50 something quid to get from Brighton to London return. What the fuck? That's bananas and train prices across the UK seem extortionant.

Like you can probably fly anywhere in the world for the price it costs to get a train from London to Edinburgh. I don't know. So all those people are hugely inconvenienced and on Wednesday I'm going to the last year game and on Wednesday I've been waiting and waiting and waiting.

You know, I sort of had it half in the back of my mind that they might change it, but of course the picks were made in December and then we're sort of only three weeks away from the game. I thought nah, nah, I'm pretty safe. I'll do it.

So I booked my flights to come over on the Saturday and then yesterday they changed the flights. So you know, fuck you.

Yes, I couldn't resist putting the thing back on for that. But surely, surely, surely, surely, surely, as much as we know the TV calls the shots and he who pays the

hyper calls the tune or whatever the hell that saying is about pipers and tunes.

You know, surely there ought to be like a mandatory period after which they cannot change the date of a game.

You know, to give people the chance to make their travel plans and make their arrangements like a month out, I think that's short, but you could deal with a month because there's still a bit of time. Of course, the book here, whatever you need to book and try and get some value because you know,

it's an expensive business. People want to get the best value. They want to get the cheapest plane tickets or the cheapest train tickets. They want to get good value on a hotel room if they're staying, you know, staying over or staying the weekend, that kind of thing.

And then all of a sudden it changes with just three weeks to go to the game. That doesn't seem right to me.

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