Quote: ThePrinter "One thing I would say (and I know people will say it’s being negative) but they could’ve scheduled it a little bit better by having it later in the summer.
The match takes place the night before Barcelona’s final league game (away from home) if they’re playing for the league title then the club and city’s focus will be on that and not promoting and attending a RL match they night before. That’s why a couple of weeks later would’ve made more sense. Might only seem a little thing but little things can add up to an event not being as successful as it could be.'"
SL come up with the fixture list, and we can't start juggling fixtures just because a team wants to play a game 120 miles away from their home ground with the incumbent club at the remote ground having an away game in a different sport the day before.
I guess there's some potential for local interest, but only if the match tickets are at a heavily discounted price. What I don't understand is what Catalans are trying to achieve? They can't be hoping to get regular support from Barcelona locals given the 240 mile round trip for regular home games.