FIFA fucking up the fixtures

[MomoWASright]

What a crock of shit

[article]
The Premier League could have a seven-week mid-season break in 2022-23 to accommodate the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

At a meeting on Wednesday, it was proposed the next campaign would stop after the weekend of November 12 before fixtures resumed again on 26 December.

The season is also set to begin a week earlier than normal on 6 August and finish a week later on 28 May.

That would therefore push both the Champions League and FA Cup finals into June.

The clubs were shown an outline calendar at a shareholders' meeting.

The World Cup runs from 21 November to 18 December and global governing body Fifa has already stipulated that players must be released on 14 November.

That would have taken out seven rounds of Premier League games and the final two Champions League group stages matches from this season's calendar.

It is understood Uefa is planning to complete the group stage of next season's competition before the World Cup, which will create heavier fixture congestion. It would be similar to that experienced last term, which started late because of the effects of the shutdown in 2019-20.

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[rubans]

Not unexpected, was always going to happen with a winter worldcup.
Just wait till it goes every 2 yrs as per Wenger’s retirement plans.

 

[Markeh]

It’d be marvellous if everyone could just not watch any of this World Cup

 

[Modo]

Not unexpected, was always going to happen with a winter worldcup.
Just wait till it goes every 2 yrs as per Wenger’s retirement plans.

They're gonna dilute the whole thing and people will stop watching, but it's not gonna happen when UEFA is against it.

 

[The Nomad]

They're gonna dilute the whole thing and people will stop watching, but it's not gonna happen when UEFA is against it.

Needs the South Americans to also be against it for it to really stick though.

 

[Modo]

Needs the South Americans to also be against it for it to really stick though.

I think they're against it too actually.

 

[binomial]

FIFA only care about 1 thing

anything else is moot to them.

 

[The Nomad]

FIFA only care about 1 thing

anything else is moot to them.

A Japan vs US final might actually bring quite a bit of revenue to FIFA.

Fuck... we must stop this madness.

 

[Brizzle]

We could really do with some teams not qualifying e.g Egypt, Senegal, Scotland, Guinea. Could be a nice rest for a few if that happens. Complete fuck up to next season and probably the one after it too.

 

[dmishra]

We could really do with some teams not qualifying e.g Egypt, Senegal, Scotland, Guinea. Could be a nice rest for a few if that happens. Complete fuck up to next season and probably the one after it too.

Yeah, that kind of disruption is bad for everyone, but will hit us especially hard.

Klopp hates this sort of stuff, and our team isn't what it is without having a defined schedule of pre-season, a proper build up, and then the increase in intensity through the season. I really don't think we'll win the league next year with that sort of disruption.

Which really means we should try and win it this year.

 

[iseered]

I think we should really really really try to win the league every year.