General Football Nonsense

[Ollie the Optimist]

World Cup football over Christmas sounds good to me.

im still very much club over country so watching Arsenal over christmas is much better

[Marc Overmars]

Same here but for the novelty factor as CiB mentioned I wouldn't mind.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

if you were to put it in winter, it knocks out two years of european seasons. to many teams would be missing players that the leagues cant possibly play. otherwise you get a wigan winning the league. the world cup is 6 weeks? plus the two weeks joining up before so thats two months. the summer holidays go, players too tired following season only really gets going 18 months after world cup.

is it worth it for all the bribes? i doubt it in lost revenue from the leagues

Eh? 18 months?

The WC lasts 1 calender month, plus preparation.

Our current system is

August - May
May - June time off and preparation
June - July World Cup
July - August time off and pre season

All you have to do is:

July/August - December first half of the season
December - January short time off and preparation
January - Feb World Cup
Feb - March time off
March - June/July second half of the season.

You've lost a bit of time at the end of the season, and the new one would be very quickly, but you'd have made it up earlier on in the season around the tournament. And that next season could be put back into normality by having a short break/a longer pre season for the season after.

It would be pretty weird having a 2 month break plonked in the middle, but it's hardly an insurmountable gap, and especially given a lot of countries already have a month or so winter break as it is and there are calls for it here too.

[LDG]

CiBBLES for FIFA President

[Letters]

CiBBLES for FIFA President

He's not a dribbling imbecile so he's not qualified.

[PGFC]

Özim for FIFA President

[LDG]

I was just about to do "Letters for FIFA President"

[Letters]

Özim for FIFA President

Harsh. Zim doesn't dribble...

[Master Splinter]

He's not a dribbling imbecile so he's not qualified.

Dribbling imbeciles?

Like Aaron Lenin, Taarabt and Quaresma?

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

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