Boxing Day backlash
Saturday 19th December 2009, 2:30PM GMT.
THE clubs are not happy about it, but the Boxing Day fixtures appear to be going ahead.
All the Division One teams are playing next Saturday and according to North boss Mick Le Prevost (pictured), all the coaches want the fixtures called off.
‘We had a chat about it and ourselves and also the clubs want the games off,’ he said.
‘Their players want to spend Christmas with their families and kids. If they do go ahead, there will be a few players missing from each team.
‘We’ve asked [for them to be called off], but we don’t know if it will be done or not. I know most of the clubs would prefer to have the games called off.’
North are due to take on St Martin’s at Northfield.
Saints boss Colin Falliaze said that he will be without a number of his players as they will be on holiday.
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This is ridiculous – its an amateur sport & they are expected to play on a family day…. Im not sure who sanctioned this but all we here is that the clubs moaned last year as there were no games on Boxing day… Well I am yet to find one person that wants to play on Boxing day!!
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Judging by the numerous comments (and occasional complaints) I hear from friends who play at this level, players and staff are expected to give a lot of time, effort and to a degree money to their clubs. I don’t have a problem with that – if football’s your passion, then why not try to achieve excellence?
In fact for that reason, my response has generally been if you don’t like it find another way to play football – you can’t have it both ways. I therefore have some sympathy for the GFA, as irrespective of the feeling that some people have mistaken the local league for the Premiership, people know what they’re getting themselves in for when they sign up. So I guess there’s a case of like it or lump it.
I suppose if all the coaches, players and clubs don’t want to play, let them all agree to not turn up. What will the GFA do then?
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Why not simply move all the fixtures from Boxing Day to the bank holiday on Monday 28th, by which time everyone should be itching to play after gorging all over Christmas and Boxing Day ? No addition to the fixtures backlog and everyone’s happy ?
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Sounds like a common sense idea to me David
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