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There's something curious going on with the TV picks for matchweek 21, which is itself split over two weekends (13-22 Jan*) for the mid-season break. TNT are showing 6 matches, including 2 in their regular Saturday at 1230 slot. I wonder if the other 4 have come from their package A Saturday allocation, or if they've done a deal to do something different with some of their package G '2 × all the midweek' rights.

* or the 12th if Burnley or Luton end up in an FA Cup replay

Taken me a while to remember this but when BT first got that package (which wasn't selling at first), they managed to negotiate it to one and a half midweeks with five extra games over the "winter break" split weekend. But for various reasons including the winter World Cup, that break hasn't happened for about half of the seasons it has supposed to so far.

Further complication is that one of BT/TNTs "midweeks" is usually the New Year's extra set of games but this year that's a normal weekend.