Quote: Itchy Arsenal "I have lost the the will to live on this subject and being a bit lazy but can someone explain why we couldn't play Friday night and Latics play on Saturday? We are now playing on the same day now on Easter Monday so I just cannot get my head around this one.
Thanks in advance'"
Because the ball is in contact with the pitch most of the time in football and hardly ever in rugby. Us playing after a football game isn't going to impact, but would the other way round. It's why we play 6 games in about 30 hours on the same pitch at Magic Weekend.