Now get your head around this!
Are you ready?
Premier League clubs have agreed to move all matches on the penultimate weekend of the season to the Sunday to avoid a clash with the FA Cup final on Saturday May 5.
This moves our away game at Wolves to Sunday 6th May.
Fixture congestion caused by the need for a break before Euro 2012 and the Champions League final being played on a Saturday forced the FA to move the FA Cup climax to Saturday, May 5, on a weekend where Premiership matches were also scheduled.
A fixture pile-up last season saw Premier League games played on the same day as the FA Cup Final, but the 20 club chairmen agreed at a meeting last Thursday to move the games to Sunday, May 6.
A genius at Premier League HQ said: 'We realise that it is not good for either competition to have our matches conflicting with the FA Cup!
There was no explanation as to why the FA Cup Final will kick off at 5.15pm for the first time in its history. No explanation other than money that is!
The only exceptions to this will be if an English club is involved in the Europa League final the following Wednesday and would prefer to play on the Saturday, and OF COURSE if Sky choose to show a top-flight match in the Saturday lunchtime slot - the Premier League would be contractually obliged to agree to that!
Confused you may be, surprised you will not.
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