FAB up in arms over Monday switch for Man City game | OneFootball

Everton's upcoming clash with Manchester City is the latest game to be moved into the Monday Night Football slot on Sky Sports. This is the seventh time Everton will have played on a Monday night, much to the annoyance of Everton fans, as voiced by the Fan Advisory Board.

The upcoming clash against Manchester City has been moved from Saturday 2 May to Monday 4 May, kick-off at 8 pm BST.

The decision sees Everton equal an unwanted Premier \Leaguue record: No side has ever played more than seven games on a Monday in a single season, with West Ham United the last team to do so in the 1995-96 campaign.

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Matt Traynor 3 Posted 30/03/2026 at 14:24:48

The current Sky TV deal has a guideline that no club should face more than 5 Monday or Friday night kick-offs in a single season. Of course, it's an informal limit which can be breached due to "scheduling conflicts". So is, in fact, a load of bollocks.

I've seen on other forums that ST holders who live outside the city have missed so many games this season, often unable to transfer or put the ticket on the resale site due to the controls the club has put on this through the "all digital" approach. Some are suggesting they won't renew but pick and choose games in the future.

Not that the club will care -- they're fully on the "Football Tourist" train now, like the other lot, Man Utd etc.

Michael Kenrick 5 Posted 30/03/2026 at 14:52:19

I do wonder if this is a generational thing?

If I didn't know any better, I'd suspect that greater angst is coming from our older, more traditional supporters who perhaps pine for the 3 pm Saturday afternoon kick-off... like what it always was.

Or is it because we rarely do very well when playing on a Monday? I can see from the record, this dates back to our first game that was not played on a Saturday: It was Monday, 2 October 1882 when we lost 8-0 at Blackburn Rovers! We improved for the next one on Monday, 5 January 1885, losing only 5-0 to Dumbarton 2nd XI! The wounds run deep!!

But all that was before the Football League had started in 1888, with all games played on Saturdays. But it didn't take long for the Monday games to sneak onto the fixture list, with Everton, yes, losing their first Monday evening league game at Wolves on 16 September 1889. And only ~2,000 fans turned up -- well down on the season average of around 10,000.

Dave Abrahams can probably remember a load more... Personally, I don't mind them at all, but I'm not a regular attendee. However, as a TV armchair fan, I must admit they are quite convenient.

Now, if you were to go by the sheer weight of numbers involved, I dare say there are more TV fans quite happy with Monday Night Football (apart from having to watch Jamie Carragher for anywhere up to 4 hours) than there are match-going fans who are perturbed by the inconvenience and want their weekend rituals preserved?

But I do wonder if it puts out our young fans quite so much?

Michael seeing as you say you are not a regular attendee then of course you don't mind Monday games. When fans and especially our younger school age fans buy their season tickets they don't expect to miss a lot of games because 8.00 oclock kick offs often prevent them going to the game. I dare say the TFG group are happy with th eextra revenues and like you they don't attend games either, so they like you don't have to keep altering plans like match going fans have to.

There seems an awful lot of posters who don't attend games, so maybe for this debate leave it to those that do attend, because they are effected. I would rather Sunday games than Monday night, seems quite odd that the top clubs don't have as many games as we do on a Monday, mind this season no other club has had more Monday night games than us.

I see the TFG group are suggesting they have a plan to get round the rule of 2 clubs playing in the same European competition, so if Roma and us qualify for the same European competition both will be allowed to enter, well I am all for hearing how TFG get round that rule.