Originally Posted by Stereophonic83:
“Maybe so but surely having that fixture a lot available should be utilised as much as possible for teams involved in Champions League.”
Perhaps, but if they're not going to use it following international breaks - as seems to be the case - then that rules out three weekends preceding the Champions League.
Chelsea v Man City is a toss up. Assuming that Sky take first pick that week, then it could be Friday or it could be Saturday 12:30. Chelsea have been picked twice in Package E and not at all in Package A, while for Man City it is the reverse. It's worth remembering that Sky can use the Friday slot up to 10 times. They've already used four and not used Package E (I think) in another four weeks (3, 9, 11, 13).
In theory, therefore, Sky have only one more pass in Package E, though I have speculated that Sky could show games on a Friday and Monday in the run-in. So with that in mind, it's worth noting that there are couple of weeks coming up where Mondays are off limits. Week 15 is followed by a midweek round of fixtures (I suppose a Thursday could be used, but that's not happened since BT had the midweek games) and Week 19 which has a round of games scheduled on the Bank Holiday.
I would expect Sky to show Friday games in both Weeks 15 and 19 so another one in Week 14 would take them to seven with a fair amount of the season to run.