Wayne Rooney is reportedly whingeing about the amount of football he's having to play over the Christmas period. Poor thing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30628191 With two games in a couple of days, and looking like another one to come on Saturday, he feels that too many games is causing a "loss of quality" and fears (yeh, right) that a player may be seriously injured because of it. Methinks, what he is actually trying to say is that Manchester United didn't win either of their matches so he has to find something - anything - to blame rather than admit that opponents might just be good enough not to let Manchester United roll them over. We've seen it before from Old Trafford. When they're winning there's no problem, but when results haven't been quite what is expected, all sorts of situations arise. Anybody remember Ferguson's complaints about referees timekeeping leading to the advent of what became known as "Fergie Time"..? Christmas football is what it is.... and always has been.... a crowded fixture list. There was a time when matches were played on Christmas Day, with a return fixture on Boxing Day. Players accepted that as a fact of footballing life and just got on with it. There was a time when the league programme consisted of 42 league matches, in a season that ended in April. Now they play 38 and finish in the second week of May. If Rooney were to get his way, the season would necessarily become even longer in order to accommodate longer periods between matches for "rest"....... or at least, to spend making adverts and appearing in lucrative sponsorship deals...... Footballers play football. That's why they're called footballers. If Wayne doesn't like having to play football matches, perhaps he'd like to do something easier for a living. He could become a doctor. Then he'd learn what long hours are. He could go down a pit, which would teach him a thing or two about hard graft. He'd really know what it was to go home "tired" then. But in reality, his complaints are borne of nothing more than his belief that Manchester United have a divine right to win and when that doesn't happen, excuses must be found. Try working for a living, Wayne. Then you'll know what tiredness is.
He's got a point. You only have to compare it to the other top leagues in Europe, they all have a winter break. Obviously if we had a winter break in England then we might have a problem with fixtures, one way around this could be to reduce the size of the PL. 18 teams instead of 20.
Bodies need time to recover. I want to see 2 teams will fully fit players not players only performing at 75%.
And what do teams do with their winter breaks? Go abroad and play friendlies for more money. Man Utd have played 20 games this season. Spurs have played 30. He's just making excuses.
Where has he said anything about playing too many games??? He's not said that at all. Some people just look for stuff to get worked up about, and you obviously seem to be one of them. There are only two quotes from Rooney in all of that guff you've posted. All he's asked for is a change to the fixture schedule because clearly playing 2 games in 45 hours is stupid. He has NOT said anywhere about the number of games over the xmas period (although there is a good argument for that also). Secondly we didn't lose to Newcastle, we won. So your point about "United didn't win either of their matches so he has to find something" or that "when they're winning there's no problem" is also clearly bollox and just the usual irrational bitter nonsense you hear from ABUs.
