It’s Christmas! (Fixture list)

[hipkiss92]

The logic to me if the teams want a winter break would be to play Boxing Day - 29th - NYD (which is a typical Sunday - Wednesday - Saturday arrangement, no different to playing in Europe), then have the FA Cup 3rd Round first weekend in Jan, followed by a winter break. Maintains the traditions in this country but adds in a break after a number of games in short succession.

It's changes for TV that leads to teams playing twice in 48 hours, rather than anything with the schedule to begin with.

[SoccerHQ]

Probably logical to put the Burnley home game on 4th round weekend now, more logical than sticking it midweek.

[eamonn]

Yep, the one "good" thing about being knocked out of the cup is that so too were the teams with whom we've had recent league games postponed - Leeds and Burnley.

No need to make them midweek games, they can be Saturday afternoon matches on FA Cup 4th/5th/6th round day etc. Or maybe that's just too sensible.