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18th September 2018
12:12pm BST

And then it was all over by 10.30 and you'd still be getting to bed early enough for work or school or whatever you had the next day.
The 'reason' it was changed doesn't wash anyway.
Who's going to go five hours without hearing about a goal in this day and age? And even though they say the point of having them at different times is that you'll be able to watch two games, who in their healthy minds is going to sit on a couch for five hours without stirring?
The real reason is that they probably smell more advertising money from more time on the tv.
Things change tonight. 7.45 kick-offs are a thing of the past now and listen, we're not going to be catty enough to say that an 8.00 kick-off is any worse, but the fact that half of the games begin at 5.55, that's a different story.
People aren't ready to put the feet up at that time. They don't have the whole evening for the Champions League exclusively. We're only going to miss these games.
Games like Spurs V Inter Milan which kicks off at 5.55 tonight.
And as if to kick us while we're already down, there will be no games free-to-air in Ireland on Wednesdays through the group stages.
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