It's a reasonable question. Some members asked for it, and Rab complied.
My issue is if we don't maintain it, there's no point. I got up this morning and logged into the site to see that 20 minutes of the Bologna-Inter match had gone by and nobody opened the live thread -- so it was all in here. I moved the appropriate posts over. But yeah... I'm not so sure that keeping the live match discussions out of this thread is of a great benefit.