The problem with English football, is that it is handicapped by tradition from a bygone era.
The league cup, with so many teams playing in Europe now, they can either have not them enter or my personal choice is scrap the competition altogether. And put league fixtures in their place, thus freeing up space to get a winter break in at some point.
Xmas fixtures, they never get the spacing of the games right, some teams play 4 times in 7-8 days, some get 10-12 days over this period. They will never scrap this set of games, but they sure can make sure they schedule it properly.
FA Cup is played at the weekend, when every other cup competition is played thru the week. They finally decided to scrap replays after the 5th round, while not scrap replays altogether? Even more chances of cup upsets, with pens involved.
Too many phucking teams. No other country/sport that I know of and trust me I watch a lot of phucking various sports, has 92 professional teams. well 91
Bury (don't ask me how
) Half these teams are running at a loss and a handful could end up like Bury and Bolton situations if they have a bad couple of months.
