This season’s Football Christmas programme has been completely ruined because of bad weather. We have had frost and snow leading to many matches, especially in the lower leagues, being cancelled. This has lead to the old debate of should there be a winter break in Football?
Of course the main idea of a winter break is to eliminate the possibility of matches being called off because of bad weather. But, when do you know when the bad weather is coming? This seems the main problem to me, if you schedule a winter break over the Christmas period, then chances are the bad weather will arrive in November or in February, and then what do you do? The season is going to be longer anyway because of the winter break, and then it’s also going to be extended even more if you then have games called of in February.
One solution to this problem would be to completely rearrange the Football season and have the season run through the summer. The season could start in March and finish in October, giving the players their off season between the months of November and February. Of course one problem with this would be summer competitions such as the World Cup and the European Championships. It wouldn’t really be wise to have these competitions in the winter, innless you had each tournament in South America.
So what would you do, have a winter break? Rearrange the season? Or, just put up with the bad weather, I mean it’s not often we get an entire Christmas programme wiped out is it.
