Free Tip: secret for a long marriage/partnership - Don't let the missus book the holidays - take control man!!
unless the Missus is as daft about football as you are.;)
She likes her football, and is a Villa fan, but wouldn't book a holiday around football. I would.
Although, having sad that, she did book to fly back in time for the first match of the season a few years back.
Trouble is, the villa belongs to her parents. I only have to pay for flights, so it's hard to complain.