Just occasionally in a game where people need to speak less and say more somebody comes out with a very sensible quote.
OK, it’s not necessarily West Ham this time but instead Pep Guardiola has had something very much worth listening to say.
In an era where managers and players are complaining about the amount of football being played, some “”big brain” in officialdom has decided that elite sport needs lots of extra minutes to tire people out
Guardiola has given his view which makes sense to us declaring: “With this added time at the end of the league we won’t have played 38 games, it will be 43 games. Plus the Champions League, plus the Club World Cup, it’s more and more.
And then Fifa has to look out for the national teams, which again I’m not saying is a baPremier League, West Ham,d thing – of course any national team has the right to play – but we have to find a balance. Quality not quantity.”
Players will suffer and fans will be charged their eye watering fees for tickets and TV subscriptions to watch a lesser product.
Will common sense prevail?
Nope.