Losing my religion: what happened to the top-flight Easter double-header?

Titles could be won and lost but Premier League fixture compilers have eased out what was once a staple of the season

HAPPY EASTER: A Norwich City fan ahead of the Sky Bet Championship match at the King Power Stadium, Leicester. Picture date: Monday April 1, 2024. Photo credit: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

You can easily lose a morning in the Guardian’s archives, trawling through all the times the church wanted English football banned on Easter’s holy days.

My favourite story? The thunder and fury at the Liverpool Diocesan Conference in 1929, when a resolution asking why the Football Association “would not allow any man under its control to take part in any game on a Sunday, yet still sanctions matches on Good Friday”, was fiercely debated.