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Originally Posted by White Out 403
Am I overreacting or is this biggest football news in decades?
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Its not exactly been a well-kept secret. They've been at this for a long time and the major culprit is the considerable congestion of fixtures.
Top teams play too many games and their players who are likely internationals play even more.
It does make a certain degree of sense, you must admit.
England is a fairly competitive league, especially lately, but its still top-heavy and you still have teams complaining about going to bush-league grounds and playing on chewed up pitches where the ball bounces everywhere and players get hurt.
- Spain? 3 Competitive teams and the rest are fodder.
- Germany? 2, maybe 3 Competitive teams?
- Italy? Juve have won the Serie A 6 or 7 times in a row, usually by a fair margin. AC and Inter have been become marginal clubs due to financial turmoil. Beyond that their competitve teams rotate.
- France? 1 Competitive team? Maybe 2?
- Holland? Belgium?
So yeah, you can kind of see some of these bigger teams not wanting to waste their time, talent and resources on blowing out minnows most weeks or losing their expensive players to injury on pointless international duties.
I hope it doesnt happen, but I can understand the idea behind it.