We always played our midweek games on Tuesdays from memory.
How come we play on Wednesdays nowadays?
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We always played our midweek games on Tuesdays from memory.
How come we play on Wednesdays nowadays?
City played at home last Tuesday and are playing at home next Tuesday.
Agree we never used to play on Wednesday, and often wondered why that was
We have played a lot of Wednesday matches though in my mind?
I'm probably wrong.
😂
TV deals isn't it?
Originally Posted by uncle bob
We always used to play midweek games on Wednesday evening. (60s/70s - and prob before)
Playing on Wednesday’s what?
I'm glad someone else did that.
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Just about tv deal with Sky. They can now show footie Tues and Weds.
Exactly that.
Playing on a Wednesday is weird. Doesn't feel right.
Wednesday games are often scheduled after one of the teams has played the previous Sunday. That’s happened with City several times this season. There have been a number of other games on Wednesdays for no apparent reason, though.
Excluding European and Welsh cup ties, in our history we've played 364 times on a Wednesday and 572 times on a Tuesday. Tuesday games have become more popular since the 1980s. Since the 1980/81 season we've played 483 Tuesday games but only 125 Wednesday fixtures. The last season where we didn't play on a Wednesday at all was the 1997/98 season. We have to go back to the 1956/57 season where we didn't play on a Tuesday at all.
Some other boring stats about Tuesdays and Wednesdays for you.....
Home games - Away games
Tuesday: 269-303
Wednesday: 187-177
Home win percentage:
Tuesday: 48.7%
Wednesday: 56.1%
Overall win percentage:
Tuesday: 34.6%
Wednesday: 41.5%
Goals for average:
Tuesday: 1.26
Wednesday: 1.43
Average shoe size of the front row of the Grandstand:
Tuesday: 8.2
Wednesday: 7.6
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY KNOW ALL THIS
Can you imagine if this was a cricket messageboard….. stats galore 😂
Not difficult with Excel. Took me about 10 minutes. Yes, I have a spreadsheet with all of our games on it.
fair play, I doubt many other football boards offer such an in depth service, thanks
You should get into Major League Baseball. It's a statto's dream come true.
It’s obviously the Coronation Street thing, by the 80s fans had got pissed off missing Wednesday’s episode, that’s my theory anyway.
Good enough theory for me!
The change happened in the 1982/83 season.
Prior to that season we had played only 23 home matches on a Tuesday since we started in the league in 1920. Between 1982/83 and 1985/86 we had matched that total.
On the opposite side of the coin, we've only played 40 home matches on a Wednesday since 1982/83, that's over 40 seasons. We played 41 between 1972/73 and 1981/82, that's 10 seasons. In fact, in the last 40 seasons there have been 19 where we haven't played at home on a Wednesday night at all (not including Welsh cup/European games).
I wonder why there was such a change? We had been relegated to Division 3 in 1982. We played more games on a Tuesday in 1982/83 and 1985/86 in the third tier than we did in Division 2 in 1983/84 and 1984/85. It may have been a league thing? I also wonder if it was anything to do with football highlights being on both BBC and ITV on a Wednesday evening?
I seem to remember as a kid all the way through the 70s, that Wednesday was our home night. All the European games were Wednesday including Real Madrid.
Wednesdays were always our home midweek night when I was a kid, 7.15pm kick off very often too.
Between 1970/71 and 1979/80 we played 54 games on a Wednesday and 40 on a Tuesday. Perhaps you've erased the bad memories of those Tuesday games in the 70s - we won 2, drew 8, lost 30 and failed to score in 21 of them!! By contrast, on Wednesdays in the 70s we won 27, drew 12, lost 15 and failed to score in 9.
Yes, I know it's a statistical anomaly and there's absolutely no rhyme nor reason for it!
Eric, what’s the 60s Wednesday/Tuesday breakdown? I’ll stick my neck out and say there were far more Wednesdays than Tuesdays.
Is that just home games though or all games home and away? If it’s all games then it would make more sense as Tuesday matches would have been the away games. Apologies if I have hypothesised incorrectly.
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