July, and next years season is getting into gear with the first friendlies. Seems a bad idea. Surely the season should start on 1st September or maybe August Bank Holiday with a couple of friendlies in the week before. Especially with the World Cup ending what seems like yesterday.
Sir Alec Ferguson is backing a winter break to the season. It seems a good idea. Long ago players would skate on ice and wade through mud but now they are superfit athletes playing at lightning speed and it seems inappopriate. Not to mention such conditions favouring the physical players who like to give the more skilful players we all want to see a hard time. It also means clubs need more players to ensure they can rotate and cover for injuries so a break might make those clubs more solvent and enable better players to move to lower clubs. A break would make the fixture list more compressed so something else might have to give and that sometimes takes money away from less wealthy clubs. Not to mention the TV companies not being in favour. So overall it looks like a non-starter.