The lesson here: if you believe a policy will deliver big and meaningful benefits then just ignore the polling and do it. Voters often don’t know what they want until they have it.

I'll subscribe if you start calling them 'grand slams' and not 'majors'... In all seriousness, you're a superb tennis writer even if I don't always 100% agree with all your takes. Your stuff on Zverev was proper brave and superb journalism.

To me and my very British upbringing I'm just annoyed at him using 'sports' rather than 'sport' in his tweet.

So for example West Ham v Aston Villa was therefore moved as Villa had 3 players that would have been playing for their national teams on the orginal date (Milosovic + Curcic for Yugoslavia and Nelson for Portugal). I assume one of the clubs involved in the 3rd, 4th, 17th and 18th games at the same.

So after way too much goggling before sleep tonight I finally found the answer. These were the days before uniform international breaks and randomly 4 World Cup Qualifying games were played on Saturday 14th December.
Belgium v Netherlands
Portugal v Germany
Spain v Yugoslavia
Cyprus v Bulgaria..