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Almost every season, there will be some turmoil in the Premier League, but there is one thing, which is that every year it has to be brought up again, but every year ends in nothing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

That's the introduction of the winter break!

When it comes to proposing the introduction of a winter break, it may be difficult to trace back at the earliest, but the more famous one is at the beginning of the century, when Eriksen was just in charge of the England national team, he once proposed the idea of introducing a winter break to the FA, he felt that the Premier League matches should be longer and more frequent than other leagues, which would deplete the players' physical fitness in the league and cup competitions, resulting in poor results for the national team.

At the beginning, the FA did not take it seriously, but after the 2002 World Cup, the FA began to consciously conduct a survey, and the results showed that when looking at the games of the England national team, almost all have a characteristic, that is, the first half is better than the second half.

If it's just for a period of time, or a season, it's an accident, but if it's a few years, then everyone has to pay attention to it, what is the reason for this phenomenon?

In the end, most people admit that physical fitness causes the English national team to always fail to play its strength once it reaches the second half, and the culprit of the lack of physical fitness, the fierce Premier League, many domestic cup competitions, multi-front battles of giant teams, and no winter break.

After a number of considerations, coupled with the joint request of Ferguson, Wenger and other managers, the FA officially stated that they were willing to try to introduce a winter break, and said that they could make slight changes to the schedule.

For example, in order to take care of the British national tradition of watching football, the game will continue to be played around Christmas in December, which means that the schedule during Christmas will still be intensive, but after New Year's Day, after the third round of the FA Cup, the Premier League will be suspended for two weeks, ushering in a rare respite.

However, with this arrangement, the Premier League schedule will be postponed until the end of May.

For this, Ferguson and others feel that it is not a problem at all, but FIFA feels that this problem is very big, the reason is very simple, in order to ensure the World Cup, the European Cup and other events in the even-numbered years, as well as the events on all continents, FIFA requires that the major European leagues must end the schedule before May 15.

The Champions Cup final is the only exception allowed, after all, it is a world-renowned final, and its influence is not even weaker than that of the World Cup, so FIFA naturally has to take care of it.

As soon as FIFA's requirements were introduced, the Premier League's winter break was immediately put into the cold, making the FA's original schedule adjustments discussed with major clubs fall short, because if the winter break is introduced, it will be difficult to compress the schedule to be completed before May 15.

In this way, the introduction of the original winter break was stillborn.

Over the years, many giant teams, including Ferguson and Wenger, have been calling for the winter break, and Mourinho and Van Gaal have denounced the perversion of the Premier League schedule, believing that this is the most unreasonable schedule in the world, and these people will take out the remarks about introducing the winter break almost every year.

This season, it was Alex Ferguson who was the first to make the winter break, arguing that England's unworthy results at the World Cup were due to the fatigue of the players, while the weakness of the Premier League teams in Europe was also due to the lack of a winter break.

'When the teams in other leagues are out of play, when the players in other leagues are celebrating Christmas with their wives and children, our players are still playing in the snow and ice, and when they have a break, we have the most intensive fixtures, which undoubtedly puts the Premier League teams in the most unfavourable state.

Arsene Wenger has also given support for Ferguson's views, which are one of the few languages they have in common, arguing that Arsenal's exit from the last 16 last season was not only due to Barcelona, but also because the Arsenal players had just gone through a brutal winter break and were not as physical as Barcelona, which led to Arsenal being completely passive.

However, contrary to the views of the two Premier League managers, some teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League are satisfied with the current fixtures, and they even feel that there is no need to change the current fixtures at all.

"Are they complaining about too many games and a packed schedule?" When Bolton's chairman was interviewed by the media, he asked rhetorically with a sneer.

"Of course, of course, of course, they have to play in the league, the League Cup, the FA Cup, they also play European competitions such as the Champions Cup and the League Cup, and some teams such as the Red Rebels, they have to play the Club World Championship in mid-December, they naturally feel that the schedule is intensive, but compared to us, we think this schedule is very reasonable, nothing needs to be changed!"

The same thought came from Blackburn's chairman, "They do have reason to complain about the number of games, but how can they not think about it, they have more players than us, their teams earn more than us, they can get more money for the Champions Cup and the League Cup, of course they have to pay more than us, that's what it's fair!" ”

"I think all the teams that complain about the busy schedule, they are not thinking about the players, but because the domestic competition conflicts with their participation in the European competition, they want to change the domestic competition to meet their needs for greater benefit in the European competition, but that's not fair to us!"

"Domestic competitions are traditional, the Premier League, League Cup and FA Cup are all traditional competitions in England, they are the top teams in the country, it is natural for them to participate in these competitions, if it is just to help them achieve better results in the European arena and obtain greater benefits, but it will be to the detriment of our interests, my answer to this is only one word, get out!"

In fact, for teams like Bolton Wanderers and Blackburn, the domestic league does not have their share, and they can only appeal in the domestic cups, so under the current schedule, the Premier League's top teams often arrange substitutes to play in competitions such as the League Cup and FA Cup, and the Red Rebels are all about youth teams and substitutes.

It's creating opportunities for teams like Bolton, who are reluctant to change the status quo because they are almost impossible to beat if they are all playing as the main players.

Another reason why they are reluctant to change the status quo is, in the final analysis, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Premier League, which makes teams including Bolton Wanderers have a potential hatred of the rich, in their opinion, including the Red Rebels and other teams make so much money every year, it is natural that they should play more games to be reasonable.

Many people think that the failure to come to the Premier League during the winter break is the FA's problem, but in fact, the FA's problem is easier to solve, and it is teams such as Bolton Wanderers that are really difficult to solve, and even teams in lower leagues such as the Championship and League One.

It can be said that they are the main force that really opposes the winter break!

…………………… Is the Premier League introducing a winter break?

This issue has once again been taken seriously by the FA with the joint letters of the managers of Premier League teams such as Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Louis van Gaal, Rafael Benitez and Manuel Pellegrini.

The defeat in the World Cup is just around the corner, and the FA has just gone through the pain, so naturally it has learned from the pain and began to want to make some changes.

Perhaps not afraid to admit that change does help the top teams, but the appeal of a league is often maintained by the top teams, not by the middle and lower teams such as Bolton.

Yes, after a series of previous improvements, the mid-table teams have been given enough attention, they are the foundation of a league, but football will always be a game in the pyramid, and everyone will only pay attention to the Red Rebels, to Manchester United, to Chelsea, not to Bolton, Blackburn, or even promotion horses like Sheffield United and Watford.

In an effort to change the controversy, the FA invited Premier League officials, Premier League club owners and experts to attend an internal meeting in the hope of once again taking a vote on the winter break.

In fact, similar meetings have been held before, such as in 2002, when the decision was made to introduce a winter break in '04, but it was cut in half by FIFA regulations, and now the old thing is brought up.

There are still a lot of discussions at the meeting, Bolton and other teams that represent the interests of small and medium-sized teams, and teams that represent the interests of giants are blushing and thick-necked, and they are all not giving in to each other, for them, this has become the only place where they can compete with the giants.

Seeing this chaos, Walsh, who was sitting next to Xiao Yu, shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

The benefits of open cooking are worth affirming, but the disadvantages of open cooking are reflected in front of us, everyone knows that the winter break is good, but no one can make this decision, because no one is willing to sacrifice their own interests.

The big teams see themselves as representative of the Premier League, and those in the middle and lower reaches should accommodate them; However, the middle and lower teams feel that your giant team makes so much money, and it is right to play more games, if we cause our losses in order to accommodate you, who will compensate for our losses?

Although with a series of subsidies in the Premier League, with the Premier League broadcast fees rising, the middle and lower teams have a lot of gains every season, as long as they are diligent and thrifty, healthy management is not a problem, but this does not mean that they can easily sacrifice their own interests, especially for those giants who ravage them all day long.

David? Dunn stood up several times and dissuaded the quarrelsome attendees, but as soon as he sat down, the two sides immediately quarreled again, fortunately England is a country that pays attention to gentlemanly manners, otherwise, it is estimated that they will fight like the election of the leader of the Taiwan region, and shrews will scold the street!

After a whole day of meetings, let alone a conclusion, not even a fart came out, everyone was so angry that everyone was very dissatisfied with it.

But just when everyone thought that the meeting was almost over, Xiao Yu suddenly stood up.

When it comes to today's meeting, the Red Rebels really haven't spoken much, and everyone hasn't paid attention to it before, but now that they think about it, the Red Rebels don't seem to be enthusiastic.

You must know that with the progress of a series of reforms promoted by Xiao Yu, the middle and lower reaches of the teams have benefited from it, and he has become the most influential club owner in the Premier League team.

"First of all, I think both of you have a point!" Xiao Yu said.

Everyone present immediately started to talk about it, and some people almost laughed, doesn't this mean that they didn't say it?

"I don't know anything big, I only settle accounts, I hope you give me some time now, I will accompany you to settle an account, maybe when the time comes, you will know some of the situation clearly!"

Speaking of this, everyone suddenly quieted down, they were all looking forward to what Xiao Yu wanted to say.

"Let's talk a little vulgar first, let's calculate the income of the Premier League! According to our analysis of Sky TV and overseas copyright sales, the reason for the rise and fall of the sales price of Premier League broadcast fees is the influence of our league, and the influence depends on, first, the giants; Second, European results; Third, the intensity of the competition for the league title. ”

"That is to say, once there are no Red Rebels, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and other teams, once the Premier League cannot gain anything in the European arena, once the league championship completely becomes an oligarchic game, I specially asked an authoritative agency to analyze, the broadcast value of the Premier League will fall by 55%, that is, the broadcast fee income of all our current clubs will be reduced by half!"

"Of course, my figure is based on domestic and foreign copyright sales, if you just count the domestic copyright sales in the UK, the decline is not estimated to be more than 30%, we have to thank our fans, they are the most loyal football fans in the world, but overseas rights will fall by nearly 90%!"

Xiao Yu's words made everyone present unable to refute, if you don't believe it, look at La Liga, even the TV broadcast fee of La Liga transferred by the two has completely become an oligarchy game, Barcelona and Real Madrid The two clubs have divided 45%, why don't other teams dare to resist, because they know that without these two teams, they may not even be able to share the remaining 55%.

Looking at Serie A, AC Milan, Inter Milan and other giant teams have each sold their own broadcast rights and gained huge benefits, but in the middle and lower reaches of teams such as Chievo and Parma, it is even difficult for some teams to sell the broadcast rights, why is this?

Football, especially professional football, is sometimes so cruel, the jungle eats the strong, and the fittest survives!

Relatively speaking, the situation in the Premier League is relatively fair, after all, half of the broadcast fee is divided equally, and the other 4 parts of 1 are divided according to the number of broadcasts, and the remaining 4 shares of 1 are divided according to the league rankings, which greatly guarantees the interests of the middle and lower teams.

Some people may say that the fairest thing is to divide them all equally.

But if you think about it, is this really fair?

Is it fair that the big teams spend a lot of money on stars, take on more salary pressure, and work hard to get better results, only to end up getting the same amount of money as the relegated teams?

The order in this world is created and observed by someone, and from the day there is order, there can be no fairness!

"Then according to what you say, Mr. Xiao Yu, doesn't that mean that we want to sacrifice ourselves and accommodate you?" Someone immediately stood up and refuted Xiao Yu.

(To be continued)