Personally i like football over the winter months. Boxing day and New Years fixtures are a particular highlight for me. I think it's great for the fans and i also like that we have a hard fought long season without a break, its very british. But do you think the lack of a winter break in the Premiership is putting our clubs at a disadvantage in the Champions League? All the other european leagues except in Portugal have a winter break which allows players to get a rest and recouperate and also recover from any little knocks ori njuries without the pressure to play. Meaning they should be fresher, particularly in the earlier parts of the second half of the season. Which happens to be when the early knock-out stages of the CL are played. I'm wondering if this effects the chances of our teams in the competition?
I think we should have it, but we should have it after the third round of the Fa Cup. A two week break would be fine around that time.
I think it's insanity that we don't considering it puts us behind in both club level and international level competitions. The reasons are clearly because it generates a lot of money over the winter period.
You know it's not even the Christmas pile up, but a week before the UCL game, the EPL decides to make bloody mid-week league games, we had a United mid-week game a week before we faced Munich. Why put a mid-week game in there? The FA don't at all help English teams with these type of fixtures.
if there was a mid winter break all the clubs would be playing friendlies in America, Asia, Middle East etc to make money so the rest would be minimal imo
No club plays players who need a rest for friendlies, even if that did happen. Besides, most of the other major European leagues have a break. If clubs doing friendlies would be a problem, it would already affect them. It doesn't.
