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Originally Posted by Redraine
I remember that back in our later Football League days, when we were struggling to get people through the turnstiles, the Stanley board approached Blackburn and Burnley with a view to ask for their co-operation. The suggestion was that they might consider scheduling their matches to be home and away on the same Saturdays, with our home fixtures on their away days. They both declined, saying it was a matter of "self preservation", but maybe this is an idea which could be floated again. I can't imagine that there would be the same resistance to the idea these days - what does anybody think?
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Complete non-starter.
The Blackburn & Burnley fixtures are co-ordinated at police request so that only one team plays at home on the same day/weekend.