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Everyone also has many avenues to get the "election news" via other methods, including a remote control to get it from another PSB. By 5pm on that night unless there is a major upset the election will already be consigned to history - it's worth noting BBC1 usually only schedule the programme through to around 4pm anyway.

The news will probably also reach more people scheduled around the football in the evening than it would in it's regular 6pm slot anyway as many more viewers than usual would be watching BBC1.

But heck, until just a few days beforehand we won't know how the schedule will play out anyway so no point at all getting your complaints in about something that may never happen. Having looked at the permutations I think unless England really mess up in the group stage there is probably only a 5% chance of that first 5pm match having UK involvement, meaning the BBC would likely choose the potential England match on the Saturday and the primetime match on the Friday.


And PSB isn't just being one thing to one group of people - the election is important but frankly for many people if England or Scotland are playing at 5pm that night that result would be more important. And for others how a Brit is getting on in third round of Wimbledon would have the greater PSB value. And for many people will be interested in all three, and I've no doubt the BBC will be able to serve the needs of all three, with only those who'll complain for the sake of complaining being most upset about common sense scheduling decisions.