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Palace To Kick Off Seven Minutes Late

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Aston Villa’s game at Selhurst Park against Crystal Palace will now kick off at 3.07pm on Saturday April 12.

The seven minute delay is because everybody is going to be marking the weekend, across the Premier, Football and Conference Leagues, with respect to Hillsborough.

The game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15 1989 was abandoned six minutes after kick off, therefore in memory there will be a minutes silence one minute ahead of these fixtures will which all now begin at 3.07pm.

Other games without a 3pm kick off, will also start seven minutes past whatever hour they are meant to begin.

All fixtures on between April 11 and April 14 will be adhering to this.

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