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Steven Chicken

The death of the Saturday 3pm kick-off or brave new world? EFL enters Sky Sports+ era with massive implications for fans

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Dedicated matchgoing EFL fans will already have noticed a change to their fixture list for the season ahead: namely, there’s going to be a far fewer 3pm Saturday kick-offs for everyone.

That’s because the EFL is now operating under a new Sky Sports TV deal, with the new channel Sky Sports+ showing a staggeringly greater number of all 72 sides’ games in the season ahead.

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