So it may be that international football chiefs need to act quickly to protect their money-spinning road show and the following radical framework is being floated as a solution in a long-running argument that will be won by club sides sooner rather than later:• Reduce the size of qualifying groups by forcing the international minnows to play a qualifying competition of their own to win the right to play top nations.
• Scrap friendly internationals during the domestic season and replace them with a handful of international squad get-togethers during the club season.
• Play all qualifiers in a one-month period during the summer. This would stop the interruptions during the domestic season.
• The extra weeks created in the domestic season could mean a later kick-off to the Premier League programme, with a late September start a possibility.
1 comment:
Last point: ban Robin Van Persie from any more national team duty. Or maybe just sell him to the KNVB and let Arsenal rent him out on a weekly basis for his 2 healthy months each year.
Post a Comment