[Football] Winter Break from 19/20 Season/FA Cup Re-jig

[Westdene Seagull]

I would make the FA Cup an entirely midweek competition and scrap all replays. Nobody cares about it, nobody takes it seriously so why waste weekends on it? You could run the Premier League as an entirely weekend-only competition as a result, ensuring a week between every single fixture.

I think Wigan fans would disagree with you along with quite a number of fans from other teams. I've rather enjoyed it this season as well !

 

[Da Man Clay]

The Football league will follow, championship clubs will rightly say they have squads full of internationals

Doubt it. Championship and League 1/2 already have more games as it is. They’ll be better off playing those two weeks due to more chance of TV coverage with the PL sides playing reduced fixtures.

 

[rippleman]

So the only reason for having a mid-season break is because the multi-millionaire players, whose every whim is pandered to, are getting ickle bit tired?

What a bunch of pretentious wimps.

 

[Simster]

Wigan were 6,000 short of capacity for a match against Manchester City so they don't care that much! I accept there is still a sizeable minority of traditionalists supporting the FA Cup but in my opinion the reality for most people is that it's now an irrelevance that prevents us getting what we really want, i.e. another week of Premier League football. See also: International breaks.

You are correct insofar as it is clearly nothing like as important as it once was. However, if UEFA allowed domestic cup winners a Champions League spot, I think you'd find that status quo change quite dramatically.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

sadly these days are over for good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGs-dFfg_Rc

 

[Nixonator]

Wigan were 6,000 short of capacity for a match against Manchester City so they don't care that much! I accept there is still a sizeable minority of traditionalists supporting the FA Cup but in my opinion the reality for most people is that it's now an irrelevance that prevents us getting what we really want, i.e. another week of Premier League football. See also: International breaks.

That's a good turnout for wigan.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Winter break for Premier League clubs in February from 2019-20

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44414487

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Winter break for Premier League clubs in February from 2019-20

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44414487

Ridiculous. I am against this. It won't help the national team at all as half of them don't even play regularly for their home club. It will be interesting to see what happens if those particular weekends are mild, whilst the preceding weekends or following weekends have heavy winter snow.

 

[Bob!]

"The break will be staggered across two weeks, with five matches on the first weekend and five the following weekend."

So, how does that work?
No actual break in the Premier League, just one weekend off with no midweek fixtures before or after?

 

[hart's shirt]

Good article on the 'tired' excuse for underperformance a few days back on the BBC website:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44360116

England's World Cup players played less club football this season than their Spain, France and Brazil counterparts.

Received wisdom suggests players in the Premier League play more than other major leagues, but Gareth Southgate's squad have played the fourth most minutes of all the nations to qualify for the finals in Russia.

Spain's squad have played almost a combined 10,000 minutes more than England's, with France about 5,000 and Brazil 4,000 ahead of England.

The England squad selected by Roy Hodgson for the 2014 World Cup played almost 4,000 fewer minutes than Joachim Low's tournament-winning Germany squad.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Sensible and also sensible to get rid of 5th round FA cup replays.
Now let's get rid of 4th round replays (I'm in favour of always keeping 3rd round replays)
Then after, get rid of the league cup 2 leg semi finals.
Then get rid of FA cup semi's being held at Wembley.

 

[Triggaaar]

Good article on the 'tired' excuse for underperformance a few days back on the BBC website:
...
Received wisdom suggests players in the Premier League play more than other major leagues, but Gareth Southgate's squad have played the fourth most minutes of all the nations to qualify for the finals in Russia.

Well if they've played the 4th most, that is more than most other nations isn't it. And presumably it would be more if it weren't for the fact that this time round some players have been out through injury, or simply not been picked for their teams because they're not good enough.

The England squad selected by Roy Hodgson for the 2014 World Cup played almost 4,000 fewer minutes than Joachim Low's tournament-winning Germany squad.

But the squad have played more than Germany this time round. It would be good to see the overall statistics, rather than cherry picked ones.

 

[pasty]

Boo Hiss. This could spell the end of my traditional birthday footy weekend pass

 

[theboybilly]

Better option is to lower the numbers in the leagues....

Already been done

 

[brakespear]

So the only reason for having a mid-season break is because the multi-millionaire players, whose every whim is pandered to, are getting ickle bit tired?

What a bunch of pretentious wimps.

Well, there is the other reason of lucrative opportunities to go and play football somewhere abroad for a few million

 

[DumLum]

If you thought the fa cup was dead. It just died some more.

 

[blue-shifted]

Probably there will be some 6 nations to watch

 

[ManOfSussex]

All happening today: Carabao Cup: Extra time scrapped & VAR to be used at Premier League grounds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44415928

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I was totally against the idea, but reading more details in the o/p it does not seem so bad