Are you completely for or completely against or for but on conditions? We are effectively enjoying a winter break at present due to our stunning FA Cup performances but just say we weren’t would a break be good or bad not just literally now but every season? When should we have a break would be the first issue as pointless linking it in with bad weather as we never know when that is going to be. Would Clubs be banned from playing “exhibition” games as otherwise what is the point in having a break. How long would the break be and how would players stay match fit particularly if they are banned from playing exhibition games? For me I’m against a winter break but how do others feel and why?
Could you imagine being dragged around the shops with your lass during christmas time and the new year sales if you had all this time on your hands It's a no from me
So long as you have good, solid footballing reasons for your stance.... Or, alternatively, you just don’t want to spend time with your “significant” other.
I'm all for a winter break. Nowt worse than sitting at the match freezing your bollocks off. Compare that to summer, nice and warm, no cancellations or travel disruption.
Yes to winter break with conditions. If it truly about player welfare and the best out of them mentally and physically then no games should be allowed. Go away for some warm weather training if need be but no games. Otherwise it’s just money making exercise and I’m against it. The quality of football towards the end of the season could well be better if they are re-conditioned in the right way. Anything that improves the quality I think is a positive.
That’s why I don’t think it will work. Can you imagine anyone at the PL telling Citeh, or Chelski, or Man U that they can’t go to China or America etc for warm weather training and happen to play a money spinning friendly against PSG or Barca etc
This bloody topic again. If it must happen, then one weekend off in January with no game allowed to be played in public or broadcast. Cut an international friendly game to make room for it, with a midweek training session instead. Done.
Fight between Theresa May and Augustus Caesar? It's an even contest I guess, both fairly right-wing dictators one of whom has the appearance of having been dead for 2 millennia and the other was Roman.
It’s down to rules though isn’t it. If you say anyone found playing a game is deducted 3 points. They will not bother. It would require the FA to man up though I agree.
Simple answer to that from the clubs is that they need to maintain match fitness, we don't need a winter break in the UK it's not as if we get freezing weather for 3 or 4 months and the pitches are a world away from what they were even 20 years ago let alone the Irish bogs they played on in the 70's.
