Shock Horror! I’m agreeing with the Church!

A statement was released by the Archbishop of York the other day stating that football games shouldn’t be played on Easter Sunday.

Now his reasons are the usual bunkum about it being a special day or worship (for less than 10% of the UK population if I remember the church attendance figures). Therefore the remaining 90% or so should do without.

[Actually, I just did a quick Google. Church attendance is now measured as “attending at least once per month” and the figures for 2007 were 15% – source]

However.

He’s right. Football shouldn’t be played on Easter Sunday. Or any Sunday. Or indeed on Fridays (and not because it’ll annoy the Jewish or Muslim populations, who incidentally seem to have better things to do than whinge about traffic problems near their synagogues and mosques).

It should be played at the traditional fixture time of Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Think how much easier it would make it to get to those away matches. No more bloody late-night kickoffs in the middle of the weeks meaning a nightmare of a journey between Newcastle and London or whatever.

That way, the only people who get pissed off at the people who own Sky and Setanta because they can’t leach as much money out of us.