No early TV slot for the Clarets

Last updated : 30 June 2004 By Tony Scholes

Neil Warnock is behind this particular camera but he won't be on the opening day of the season
With no Premiership on the first weekend our league takes centre stage and newly relegated Leeds United will be the first club to host a league game this season. Their opening day fixture against Derby County has been brought forward to a 12:15 p.m. kick off for television coverage.

Later in the afternoon Peter Reid will face his old club Sunderland when Coventry play them at Highfield Road and this one has been allocated the 5:35 p.m. television slot.

Stoke and Wolves will have to wait an extra day to start and their opening day fixture at the Britannia Stadium will also be shown live although no kick off time has been confirmed as yet. It would be no surprise to see this get an early start.

It doesn’t stop there either with further live coverage on both Monday and Tuesday. On Monday it is Vicarage Road and Watford v QPR (kick off 7:45 p.m.) and on Tuesday a chance for Clarets to see former player Glen Little in action when Reading visit the Boleyn Ground and a clash with former manager Alan Pardew at West Ham.

More televised fixtures will be announced by the end of the week when the Clarets will be hoping to get their first slice of the television money cake.