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Why playing Premier League matches in the US is the last thing football needs

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Even for football, it was a pretty brutal display of how these things actually work. Just on Friday, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said the fixture calendar is at a “tipping point”: “There is too much football being played and there is constant expansion,” he said. Not even a week could go by without … Read more

Players are exhausted by a calendar that is damaging football

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Bernardo Silva admitted that he and other footballers were already feeling fatigued by the increasingly intense fixture list – Shutterstock/Ali Haider Bernardo Silva has admitted that he and other leading players in European football are starting to feel exhausted by the punishing fixture list – to which FIFA has just added a new 32-team Summer … Read more