This week has seen Coronation Street get cancelled so the FA Cup football can air instead on ITV.
Coverage of Friday night's titanic FA cup clash between Manchester United and Middlesbrough at Old Trafford will start airing at 7.30pm, which means Corrie has been given the chop.
But while soap fans were treated to extra episodes throughout the week to compensate, some are still fed up as football often gets priority over the Cobbles and the Farm.
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Throughout the past week, fans have taken to Twitter to share their dismay of the soaps being cancelled for the sports.
Dave said: "We have an episode of #Corrie tonight because of f****** football on Friday."
Simon said: "Not all of us like football, stick it on one of the other ITV channels and leave our Corrie alone."
Another user said: "Strange to think my husband will be watching ITV at 7.30pm tonight. That's usually my time in front of the telly to watch Corrie."
This week's changes aren't the first time ITV has mixed up the soap schedule in order to accommodate the football.
The FA cup coverage cause all of the soaps to come off ITV and the BBC every single year, but 2021 was a particularly bad one for cancellations due to the Euros.
England progressed all the way to the final, where they were beaten by Italy on penalties at Wembley, with every match airing either on ITV or BBC One.
What made last year even worse was that all of the major soaps were massively disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Filming had to stop due to lockdown rules, so EastEnders and Hollyoaks were forced off air for a few weeks, while Emmerdale and Corrie had to cut their weekly episode output in half.
There will also be mass football disruption at the end of this year when the 2022 World Cup in Qatar begins.
The reason that broadcasting channels opt to prioritise the football is simply all down to viewing figures.
The Euros final attracted an estimated 31 million viewers in the UK, which is enormous compared to the half of dozen million currently averaged by Corrie for example.
Plus, ITV also airs Coronation Street and Emmerdale on its digital platform so that the episodes can be watched at any time whereas football fans risk ruining knowing what the score is unless a match is watched live.
During the Euros, EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale all put a week's worth of episodes on BBC iPlayer and the ITV Hub on a Monday as well as airing them on normal TV.
The BBC also extended this for EastEnders during the Olympic Games in Tokyo last summer.
EastEnders airs tonight on BBC One at 8pm and Emmerdale on ITV at 7pm
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