Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: UK Redsox on January 21, 2011, 09:20:05 AM
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The Super Soar Away.....
UEFA president Michel Platini is leading the push for the introduction of a controversial international calendar throughout the soccer world.
And the proposals for the revolutionary changes are already well under way at FIFA's Swiss HQ.
Platini's shock idea will mean that, from 2015, major tournaments such as the World Cup, European Championships and African Nations Cup would be staged in February and March.
And to accommodate the upheaval, every league in the world would be forced to cram their domestic season into a 7½-month period between mid-March and the end of October.
That would leave a six-week period from November to mid-December for international qualifying games followed by a complete four-week rest for every player until mid-January.
What's the H&V view ?
Do you want to spend your summer afternoons at Villa Park ?
Link (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3363170/Michel-Platini-planning-to-turn-football-into-a-summer-sport.html)
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I can hear women all over the land tapping a rolling pin in their hand at the though of the football season taking up the summer.
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What shite! I'd hope the FA (and the DFB, for that matter) would tell them where to go.
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Watching a game in the warm is more fun than the freezing cold. Easier to get crowds to night games too and maybe more kids could go on the school holidays. Football is invariably better in the warmer months than the summer, and it never gets so hot here that players would struggle.
Flip side it would feel a bit weird.
Probably going to be a minority as this develops, but I would be for it.
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One mans whim wants to change decades of tradition ?
It will be interesting to see those games in Greece, Spain, Italy etc played in Mid August when the temperatures can reach 40 C.
What about the impact on Summer sports....cricket etc?
And what about my holiday ?
I can't miss the villa to lie on a bloody beach somewhere.
Its an outrage !!
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I cant get through the xmas period without being able to escape the endless roast dinners and family small talk by going to watch the Villa.
fúck Platini and his Nobel Peace Prize aspirations.
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Domestic football in the summer, World Cup's in the winter; watch and wait, our prime time Saturday 3PM kickoffs in November will be spent watching the Hyundai A-League.
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Sky wont let this happen.
Football is the only thing that keeps them going in the winter (besides darts).
Platini just comes out with these hair brained ideas every now and again to make sure people know he still exists.
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watch and wait, our prime time Saturday 3PM kickoffs in November will be spent watching the Hyundai A-League.
In that case you'd need to be pretty desperate for a football fix then, it's shocking.
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watch and wait, our prime time Saturday 3PM kickoffs in November will be spent watching the Hyundai A-League.
In that case you'd need to be pretty desperate for a football fix then, it's shocking.
Brisbane Roar vs Adelaide United sounds more exciting than Birmingham vs Stoke - atleast you would be in for a surprise.
90 minutes of not knowing what to expect and seeing divers being sent off on the spot, or 90 minutes of long throw ins and hoofing a ball up to a 6ft8 striker who still can't head the ball? I know what I'd rather watch.
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Football gets me through the winter months and I can think of far better things to be doing in the summer than fretting about the Villa. I normally agree with Platini but he can shove this idea. It's a non-starter anyway.
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Brisbane Roar v Adelaide United - think Dagenham and Redbridge v York City.
But the comedy defending can be funny at times.
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Breathtaking cynicism from Platini. For me this is purely and simply to pave the way for their Qatar chums to move their World Cup to the winter. Blatter said earlier this week they would not move the 2022 WC to the winter unless the Qatar FA requested it. This avoids the need for Qatar to submit said request, avoids the ridiculous notion that Qatar will build air conditioned stadia which they'll then move to Africa, and avoids backlash from Australia and USA who have already complained that the goalposts for the bid were moved after the bid went to Qatar. This will be an experiment which will miraculously be found unsuccessful about a month after the conclusion of the 2022 WC finals.
Not sure that Sky will have too much influence by then given the 'break even' rules coming in in a couple of years, and also not sure what TV coverage/revenue has influence in other/overseas FA's. But, as others have said, what happens to other summer sports - cricket, tennis and golf spring to mind.
If this happens my winter Saturday afternoons will be spent at Kidderminster Harriers - 5 mins away, great food, back home 15 minutes after the game finishes, no prima-donna millionaires taking the piss out of the club etc. Who knows - I might enjoy it so much that I wouldn't bother going back to the Villa. :-\
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I normally agree with Platini
Not....Sure....If....Serious
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I think the cricketing authorities may have something to say about this.
From a personal point of view, when I'm sitting in -5 temperatures at Anfield, I pray for summer time football, but no, I don't want my summer taken up with it.
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No thanks i would keep the football season as it is i don't want it changed it just wouldn't be right playing football in the summer.
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Platini was a good footballer but a pain in the derrière these days.
I like my football as it is, I like my Summers like they are and so does most of UK plc.
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What about the impact on Summer sports....cricket etc?
And what about my holiday ?
Two very good reasons why fannying about like this is such a bloody stupid idea.
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Don't know how much it'll affect the cricket in all honesty, if Warwickshire's average attendance dropped from 200 to 100 I still don't think anyone will care.
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Don't know how much it'll affect the cricket in all honesty, if Warwickshire's average attendance dropped from 200 to 100 I still don't think anyone will care.
For county league games, perhaps. What about International Test matches, one day tournaments and internationals and 20/20?
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Don't know how much it'll affect the cricket in all honesty, if Warwickshire's average attendance dropped from 200 to 100 I still don't think anyone will care.
Mostly asleep too :-)
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Why not just make the season abit longer into May by having a winter break ?
as I get older(and I am being selfish) football in the warm seems a good idea to me.
UTV
The Doc
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One mans whim wants to change decades of tradition?
I know what you mean, but there's loads of traditions we don't adhere to anymore.
I'd love the football season to be in the summer, it'd be amazing. I'd expect the crowds would be larger too due to the warmer weather, more families and groups of friends etc. It'd be great.
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Don't know how much it'll affect the cricket in all honesty, if Warwickshire's average attendance dropped from 200 to 100 I still don't think anyone will care.
For county league games, perhaps. What about International Test matches, one day tournaments and internationals and 20/20?
I really can't see this affecting cricket crowds. The internationals bring them in no matter what.
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For me football should not be played in the summer. I'm of on holiday or enjoying weekends away with the missus or relaxing in the park with my friends. Football works so well in the winter because what else would you do on a Saturday afternoon?
In the summer though there are plenty of distractions.
If this gets pushed through watch england, Germany, spain, Italy and the Netherlands pull out of both FIFA and uefa and set up a competing governing body.
This is in no ones interest bar the Russians and the Arabs. European football is about cold winter nights not sweaty humid afternoons.
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Don't know how much it'll affect the cricket in all honesty, if Warwickshire's average attendance dropped from 200 to 100 I still don't think anyone will care.
For county league games, perhaps. What about International Test matches, one day tournaments and internationals and 20/20?
I really can't see this affecting cricket crowds. The internationals bring them in no matter what.
It'll affect their income from TV. Sky won't be bothered to put so much cricket on when it can show Premier League games.
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Football is not a summer game. Fuck off Platini and shame on everyone supporting it.
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Tradition means nothing to these Clowns.
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Summer football? No thanks.
It's about as daft as going to Blackpool in early February, who'd do that?
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watch and wait, our prime time Saturday 3PM kickoffs in November will be spent watching the Hyundai A-League.
In that case you'd need to be pretty desperate for a football fix then, it's shocking.
Brisbane Roar vs Adelaide United sounds more exciting than Birmingham vs Stoke - atleast you would be in for a surprise.
90 minutes of not knowing what to expect and seeing divers being sent off on the spot, or 90 minutes of long throw ins and hoofing a ball up to a 6ft8 striker who still can't head the ball? I know what I'd rather watch.
What a nerve, Stoke V Small Heath was a very entertaining game, finished 3-2, 2-2 after being 2 up. SMA lost what more do you want?
Not to mention this goal from Fuller!
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Meh, I'd rather both Stoke and Birmingham lose.
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Meh, I'd rather both Stoke and Birmingham lose.
I don't mind that view.
I just don't like the one that we hoof it all the time, we're not Barcelona but we are evolving to a better footballing side. You're still making your views from our first season in the Prem.
Back on topic. Summer football would be a disaster!
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If it was just the Premier League in this country then I'd be very tempted to say, fuck them, let them do it.
It will be another nail in the coffin of football as we all grew up with, but it's, if not in it's death throes, then certainly in the early stages of something terminal anyway.
Trouble is, the snowball effect of promotion / relegation means that ALL football will have to follow suit, and I really don't want that.
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If this were to happen then the only winner I can see is rugby.
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At what point will the big footballing countries tell FIFA to fcuk off and set up a rival federation?
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Utter bollox, can never be allowed to happen
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The Villa get me through winter, I mean the Christmas fixture list alone is awesome, I just get the feeling it wouldn't be the same in summer time. there's nothing like enduring the cold wind and rain for 90 minutes on a wet and dark Monday evening when the Villa grab 3 points.
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Without football in the winter I think I'd kill myself.
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i've said on here before that it is absolutely crazy to have the football showpiece played at a time when the football is stifled by the summer heat. Playing the World Cup in the cooler months makes a lot more sense. The problem being that domestic football would have to be played in the summer months. Okay for certain Northern European countries where this already done but not sure those in the warmer climes would appreciate kick-offs constantly being at midnight or 1 am a la Spain or portugal.
Seems like FIFA have got UEFA to test the water ahead of the 2022 World cup.
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Bollox to summer football. Just like bollox to game 39.