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How are you scheduling your middle of the night viewing, if you’re in Europe? Anyone who’s ever watched a Premier League live feed in a
How are you scheduling your middle of the night viewing, if you’re in Europe? Anyone who’s ever watched a Premier League live feed in a bar at 2am in Melbourne knows that following the game from Australia can be a body-clock wrecker. So Christopher Knaus from Guardian Australia has compiled this handy guide double quotation mark This is the lot of us longsuffering Australian football fans.
Football and sleep deprivation walk hand-in-hand in this country. The waking weekend hours are a haze and Mondays are four-coffee days. We gamble so much more on that 90 minutes. A scoreless stalemate takes on new levels of frustration when you know it’s going to leave you functionally impaired for 24 hours. And now, while we Australians find ourselves in a position of relative bliss, the shoe is, of course, very much on the other foot in the UK.
This World Cup, held in Canada, Mexico and the US, has given England fans manageable group-stage fixtures. But Scotland fans are being hit with a 2am kick-off, right off the bat. Others are staring down the barrel of midnight and 3am starts. Forty-four of the 104 games are being played between midnight and 5am UK time. So, I’m here to offer you the wisdom of football fans who were born on the wrong side of the planet.
We’ve tried every approach you are now contemplating.
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