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Early kick-offs can derail train strike threats

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
6 August 2023

FANS’ FORUM

WITH train strikes looking likely to continue, it seems to me that clubs should entertain the possibility of moving kick-off times forward.
As an example, there are five teams from Hampshire and five teams on the London Underground network in this season’s Southern Premier South.
If, for example, a Hampshire side has to go to London or somewhere slightly further afield on the day of a strike (for which two weeks’ notice has to be given) and a coach is not an option, perhaps the kick off should be brought forward an hour or two so that the away fa...

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