Quote: The Ghost of '99 "In 20 years of heading to Leeds away games leaving Leeds at between 1700 and 1800 to various Lancastrian venues only twice have I been significantly delayed, once in 2000 or so at Saints and then again heading to the same place in 2013. It is extremely rare and is no real excuse for all but a few Leeds fans not to turn out. Interestingly the club maintain that more tickets have been sold for tomorrow night to Leeds fans than were sold for last year's semi at Langtree Park which was a conventional Saturday afternoon kick off.
The BBC are one of the game's biggest sponsors and playing in prime time, even on a secondary channel, should ensure a larger than usual audience, which is good for the sport as a whole.'"
Could not agree more with this. I have been travelling over from Manchester leaving at between 5.30 and 6.00 for most Leeds home games for nearly 10 years and I have never missed kick off or been close to missing kick off. Traffic on a Friday generally seems to be quieter plus it is School holidays so there is less rush hour traffic.
People always moan that the sport is not marketed properly. We then get an opportunity to play on terrestrial TV at prime time on a Friday night and guess what..... people moan!
