Spurs boss Antonio Conte believes that Thursday’s meeting between Premier League managers and the powerbrokers within the league was ultimately a waste of time.
The league have chosen to keep playing throughout the festive period despite the rising number of COVID infections in the league, and games on Boxing Day have already been postponed; Liverpool’s clash with Leeds, Wolves’ game against Watford, and Burnley’s fixture against Everton are all off due to the spike. 
That means that a total of 13 games have now been postponed and Conte, whose Spurs side knocked the Hammers out of the EFL Cup earlier this week, believes that the meeting, which will also have included Hammers boss David Moyes, was ultimately pointless.
Speaking before Spurs’ game against Crystal Palace, which is still scheduled to go ahead, Conte said, as per BBC Sport: “I think so (it was a waste of time).
“Yesterday it was [like talking to] a wall and for this reason I also prefer to not go into it.”
The BBC reports that Conte did not actually contribute to the discussion but we’ve got to say that his words sound pretty much spot on here.
So the meeting didn’t go the way Antonio Conte wanted, and he whinges like a spoilt child that it was a waste of time.
Of course all the games need to be played as scheduled if at all possible.
Just how much slack does he think is left in this season which is already so compressed and affected by the World Cup? Especially as January will undoubtedly see a whole lot more necessary postponements.
Circuit breaker my bottom! Nonsense – what circuit is being broken? Its just a catchphrase.
Thank goodness the can hasn’t been kicked down the road now.
I’ll be very surprised if this season can complete at all, even if teams do their best to fulfil fixtures let alone take a break now and make it almost impossible.
Seems several other managers feel the same – decisions made before the meeting…not good