Blatter wants summer season

[B_i_N]

Actually it works well here. No more cold January days freezing your **** offjump: jump: jump: :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6206888.stm

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has proposed changing the fixture schedule of European leagues so that the season runs through the summer months.

Blatter told Germany's Kicker magazine that the season should begin in late February and end in November.

He said: "I've just proposed to the clubs: play through the summer.

"This would leave enough time for players to recover and there could be blocks of three weeks of national teams' qualifying games in winter."

Blatter added: "This idea is supported by big European clubs."

And to further ease fixture congestion, Blatter believes there should be more European groups with fewer teams for World Cup qualifying.

He feels this would mean fewer games for national teams as urged by leading clubs.

[Jantje]

Blatter just says different things in every different country he visits, in fact last month he visited Bradford & said Todd was a great manager:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[eurobantam]

Wont happen full stop.
he says the clubs want it but I doubt they really do. Which clubs?
The wealth of European club football is built on TV revenues and ratings are always higher in the winter.
European club football is the cornerstone of other sports scheduling also, thats why Rugby League changed to a sumer game.
While some of our bigger clubs might want the change (I haven't heard any of them say so though) the others wont put up with lower gate and tv money.
He says as he said before, that he wants Europe to have less teams in the World Cup finals, but Europe pays the lions share of the TV rights money for it, which is FIFAs main revenue stream.