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Originally Posted by buttsie
From what i've read about the winter break the EPL is the perfect league for it
Given you have 20 teams all equally sharing the TV money there are no easy games
like you find in other leagues where you've won after 20 minutes and coast the next 70.
The Germans take 4 weeks (currently grumbling because its down to 3)
december-january
http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/winte...q15fa1v50w8ein
England are talking about taking 2 in February (a little more than Spain)
- its a token gesture that most likely wont have any big effect
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/footb...-winter-break/
The reason i dont buy the fatigue factor as a silver bullet for England is they dont produce
enough top quality intelligent players across the pitch compared to the true top 10 teams. |
When the English teams have a break they go away and play exhibition matches; some might consider that restful, but the travel and playing take its toll. Some players take all games seriously.
I think a lot of leagues are getting more "even". Barcelona players were less than impressed when it was decided they had to go to SA to play in a Nelson Mandela Memorial Match. They insisted Messi had to play because he is such a draw.
As a result Barcelona lost their unbeaten record for the season. For the game against Levante, Messi was "injured" and other players put in less effort.The result...they lost 5-4.
Money...the clubs maximise their earnings and don't care about players and the clubs control the authorities. God knows what the players' union does but it doesn't look after their welfare ( also bringing to mind the correlation between heading and dementia).