"It matters a great deal who is going to win, but not at all who won"
Soccer on Sundays
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Raymond P Lang, jubilee centre and keep Sunday special campaign 1989
The booklet reports on research based on a 1988 survey of 808 residents living near football grounds in six different cities. The study showed around half of local residents to be inconvenienced by Saturday football and nearly half the respondents inconvenienced or disturbed by Sunday football. Four out of five preferred Saturday to Sunday football.
The conclusion is that broader issues than commercial interests need to be taken into account in the scheduling of sport. The author argues that people living close to sports stadiums are denied their one day of peace and quiet when faced with a constant stream of traffic and crowds, noise and litter.
That a booklet sponsored by the “Keep Sunday Special Campaign”, should conclude that Sunday board is a bad thing would surprise no one. The booklet, now 36 years old - before the Premier League - inevitably comes across as rather dated.