How will Premier League teams deal with a first-ever break?
Hindustan TimesAugust 5 is the earliest the Premier League has started, beating by two days the first set of games in 1999-2000. After World Cup struggle “The break is longer than anyone would like,” said Owen Coyle, speaking on the phone during an early morning drive back from England where he had gone to see players for Queen’s Park FC, the Scottish second tier club he manages now. “Some players will be away and equally, some won’t so to get all of them up to the intensity of the Premier League after the World Cup would be a challenge,” said Coyle, the former Jamshedpur FC head coach who has managed Burnley and Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League. Usually in World Cup years you get time off between the tournament and your league but that is not going to happen this time.” That said, not everyone would want a break. “Manchester City, Liverpool and the others in the top six have tremendous strength in depth and that will mean some players who would barely get games in a normal season could be making 10-15 more appearances,” said Brown, who guided Hull City to the Premier League in 2008-09.
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