No premier league football again. Unlike a lot of fans, I quite liked the weekend breaks of the last few years. No Saturday matches but there would be England games on the Friday and Tuesday plus the associated newspaper reports and blogs. It was fun.
For some reason, FIFA has now increased the gap between the two international games and there are two weekends with no premier league. Same for other countries.
So we actually have three weeks with no premier league football and only the same number of international matches to compensate.
I can't help but wonder if this is connected to world cup 2022 when they are talking of moving it to winter.
The adjustment required to domestic leagues to accommodate such a move goes beyond the seasons immediately prior and after the world cup. This will be even harder to sort out if the leagues are to have international breaks stopping domestic football for three weeks at a time.
Expect to see FIFA dropping the idea in a couple of years time, claiming how they are 'helping' by doing this and ignoring they created the problem, then worsened it, in the first place.
edited....it seems I was mistaken about the three week gap. It was just the usual two weeks. The same two international games were just Weds/Mon rather than Fri/Tues. The lengthening of the gap between them must have just made it seem like a three week gap overall.
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