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Moyes thinks big clubs need help with fixtures
David Moyes says Premier League chiefs should bend over backwards by rearranging fixtures to help big clubs fly the flag in the Champions League. ,He said: “You would think the Premier League would try to help the teams in these competitions because it's good for the league.
“I'd be supportive of any of the teams who need their games to be played at the right time.”
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2 Posted 11/02/2013 at 08:36:51
3 Posted 11/02/2013 at 08:40:46
With his inflated wages should be concentrating on us achieving something instead of worrying about Utds midweek game.
4 Posted 11/02/2013 at 08:53:29
5 Posted 11/02/2013 at 08:58:37
6 Posted 11/02/2013 at 09:14:04
7 Posted 11/02/2013 at 09:32:23
8 Posted 11/02/2013 at 10:06:27
9 Posted 11/02/2013 at 10:14:12
10 Posted 11/02/2013 at 10:24:59
'I’ve always said maybe it’s because the numbers that
we’ve got only allow us to have maybe a good half season, not a full one, because we’re asking a small number of players to do that for a full season. I hope I’m wrong'.
I hope you're wrong as well Mr Moyes, supporters don't pay good money to watch half-a-season, and Everton FC don't pay you to produce a team that can only play for half the games they participate in.
I do have a suggestion though, why not play a team full of 2nd stringers at the sky4 ,City and Spurs, that would take away 6 fixtures and reduce the burn-out with the first team squad playing a maximum of 32 PL games. I wonder if these highly paid athletes can manage that? It would hardly make an impact on our points tally.
11 Posted 11/02/2013 at 10:29:13
I wonder if he writes it down or records what fergie tells him to do on his phone so he doesn't forget amidst the back slapping.
Servile with the brains of a root vegetable - roll on the announcement.
12 Posted 11/02/2013 at 10:49:21
13 Posted 11/02/2013 at 11:42:42
14 Posted 11/02/2013 at 11:41:05
Basically its saying that the P.L should take into consideration the fact one, or some, of their members may have a European game in midweek and to schedule the weekend game accordingly.
Any club in question will have spent the whole of the previous season qualifying and P.L also likes to make a big deal of any clubs progressing far in the competition. Good for their kudos and all that. I don’t care about that, but they do play on it if there is a heavy P.L presence in the latter stages. Perhaps some of the managers feel that it’s a bit of a one way street?
England international games used to be played on the Weds after games on the weekend. People moaned about the change to have a free week so the manager could get more time with the players and they were fresher etc. But I would say it’s widely acknowledged the old system was ridiculous.
I’m not saying that should happen with champions league clubs. But, if you are in the P.L and you have a tough champion’s league fixture on the Weds, is it too much to ask your league, your league, to give you a Saturday game so you have the maximum time to prepare??
No.
United played Sunday. Todays Monday. One day of proper preparation and the game on Wednesday? Bit much? If it was us there would be hundreds of us on here going ape shit.
Nothing wrong with what Moyes has said here. Ask all the managers and you would most likely get the same reply. No doubt the reactionary bullshit will follow however.
15 Posted 11/02/2013 at 12:02:35
"Everton FC don't pay you to produce a team that can only play for half the games they participate in" - No, they also pay the players who shit themselves against better teams and don't turn up. Pienaar, Baines, Fellaini, Mirallas, all of them were gash yesterday, along with the usual suspects.
Here's a tip for the players....when your forward is heading towards goal, pass the ball in front of him, not behind him, so he can have a shot....... yes I'm looking at you Mirallas.
Did Anichebe control a ball all afternoon?
16 Posted 11/02/2013 at 12:13:26
17 Posted 11/02/2013 at 12:20:57
"MMMUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMM tell him he keeps taking the ball off me.
18 Posted 11/02/2013 at 13:02:08
The rich clubs moan that the Euro Cup format gives them too little money and they want a league. They get their league and with it untold millions, and they complain that they play too many games.
The Champions League is a scam designed to keep the rich clubs rich. Smash the champions league, bring back the Euro Cup format and spread the wealth more evenly and equitably.
The Rich Clubs have all the cards stacked in their favour. Even the more-than-doubling of the number of named substitutes is a scam to favour the richer clubs with the largest squads. They don't need any help. Davey, I am very disapppointed.
19 Posted 11/02/2013 at 13:16:34
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20 Posted 11/02/2013 at 13:27:28
21 Posted 11/02/2013 at 13:21:35
I hate looking at the fixture list when we play Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea away. Dave Prentice will tell us Evertonians " be careful what you wish for" while telling the gobshites "what a fab club you have".
22 Posted 11/02/2013 at 14:39:46
23 Posted 11/02/2013 at 14:30:52
25 Posted 11/02/2013 at 15:11:23
Vote now!
26 Posted 11/02/2013 at 18:00:10
27 Posted 11/02/2013 at 18:37:17
28 Posted 11/02/2013 at 18:42:56
29 Posted 11/02/2013 at 18:49:36
30 Posted 11/02/2013 at 19:15:44
31 Posted 11/02/2013 at 19:57:15
32 Posted 11/02/2013 at 22:21:59
33 Posted 11/02/2013 at 22:26:25
@450
My state pension is galloping towards me at a rate of knots.....
I'm on the short list to advertise the book "Fifty Shades Of Grey", a novel about hair.
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1 Posted 11/02/2013 at 08:21:34