Once the provisional fixtures are announced, what right of reply do clubs have to amend them?
DC: There are occasions where we haven’t been able to meet club requests, or we have what we call clash days where usually perfectly paired clubs i.e.Stoke and Port Vale may be at home on the same day. This is caused by the imbalance of match dates across all four divisions. Under normal circumstances that wouldn’t happen but where that occurs, it is unlikely that the police forces will accept these matches and therefore one of the games will have to change. We do get the odd club who experiment with the occasional Friday night match; kick-off times also change, for example, derby matches on a Saturday are often made early kick-offs or even moved to a Sunday. Most teams play midweek matches on a Tuesday but if they have a game on the weekend before which is chosen for television coverage on the Sunday, then they might want to put the following midweek match back until the Wednesday. We give clubs ten days to come back to us with any changes; it then takes us a couple of days to process
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