In minor league sports, you hear all the time about post-season games being moved around because of a previously scheduled event.  Sometimes it's a speaker, sometimes the circus is coming to town, and (as was the case with the Cincinnati Marshals a couple years ago) sometimes the players just can't get off work.

This, however, might be the craziest one I've ever seen.

English Premier League soccer club the Manchester City Blues found out this past week that they had earned a spot in the prestigious UEFA Cup tournament (basically European soccer's version of the NIT, except it lasts the whole season and is way more important), and would host their home leg of a first round series on July 17th.  Sounds great, right?  Well, not so fast.

You see, Bon Jovi is scheduled to play at Man City's home field, the City of Manchester Stadium, on June 22nd.  Since soccer stadiums in Europe have almost exclusively grass fields, and concert staging tears up the grass pretty badly.  Man City's management didn't see this as a big problem, since they weren't expecting to qualify for the UEFA Cup, and could repair the field in time for the start of the EPL regular season in mid-August.

However, with just 25 days between the events, the groundscrew is going to have to do some serious scrambling to get it ready in time for the game.  Already the team is looking at alternative venues.  The most likely location, according to The Guardian, is Huddersfield's Galpharm Stadium.  Sadly for Man City, that stadium's capacity of 24,500 is barely half of that of the Blues' home pitch.  In soccer, European cup games are incredibly valuable, since they bring in a tremendous amount of revenue that can be used to purchase more talented players.

So, the lesson here is, never underestimate your team's ability to perform at the highest level.  You never know when it might come back to bite you if you do.