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Originally Posted by Locke
They're going to have to, but for a lot of teams with thin benches thats not going to be good enough.
Managers like Klopp have been banging the 'Fixture Congestion' drum for years and now its like Fixture Congestion is mainlining heroin.
You can give more subs, but if you dont have the players it doesnt help. Even Liverpool are having a problem considering our ridiculous number of injuries.
They're going to either have to space some of this crap out, nix the Internationals (which IMO would be a great start) or start dropping some Cup games.
I can understand the managerial position of FAs to consider their players as Beasts of Burden and just run 'em hard and put 'em away wet like rented Mules but there are actual physical realities to consider here.
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There was a clip in the "All or Nothing" series on Spurs last December and the players were talking about the Christmas fixtures. Kane said something to the effect of "we're not machines", and I think it's both obvious and apparently ignored.
We all like seeing those Boxing Day/December 28/ New Years kinds of things because we like seeing our teams play. At the same time though, it's pretty ridiculous to expect a professional athlete to put in 3 90 minute efforts in a week, often where the games are meaningful.