Should the global football season be from Spring to Autumn

[Tricky]

Currently being discussed on talksport.

Platini wants all Top Leagues Worldwide to have their seasons running in parralell from March to October. Michel Platini planning to turn football into a summer sport | The Sun |Sport|Football

I can see the pro's & cons for this:

Pro's:

Unlikely to get postponed games in the uk, less matches played on dodgy pitches.
England players should be less tired with tournaments staged in February & March and an alright break inbetween.
Can watch the uk footy in shorts & t-shirt for part of the year.
Might attract more people to start going & watch lower league clubs if it becomes a summer sport.
Everyone is in the same boat so to speak for European games, plus wouldn't lose players to African nations cup, asian, north & south American comps.

con's

Other sports like cricket & rugby league would be hit if football was played all through the summer.
Fixtures will have to be crammed in, probably would have 16 team EPL & Carling cup wouldn't involve Premiership teams. (could do away with the LDV or whatever it's called then though..)
Part of the footy experience is freezing your nuts off watching/getting to a game in subzero temperatures. Plus no more snowball fights outside the ground...
People going on their holidays in the summer so would miss matches.
Afternoon domestic kick offs would be difficult in the heat of the summer in Southern Europe, let alone in places such as Quatar.
Platini is a twat, and is just doing it cos Qatar are trying to become a football world power & are "allegedly" bribing him..

What's everyones views on the possibility of summer football? I'm mixed, so am open to the possibility.

[Seen]

less matches played on dodgy pitches.

That's if you don't consider rock hard, bone dry pitches as 'dodgy'.

[Kiko]

I have been a huge supporter of this in Scottish football at all levels from professional right down to children and I really cannot get my head around why we haven't changed to it already.

Every season we have a fixture list pile up due to the majority of the games being postponed week in week out (at non professional levels we are currently entering our 9th week in a row tomorrow with no football in Aberdeen).

Even when the games do beat the weather the conditions of the pitches are far worse and cut up easily meaning future games at that ground are in doubt of postponment.

Many clubs go without training also (The name escapes me but we had a Scottish Cup game the other week played, an SPL club v a lower league club and the lower league club had only managed a handful of training sessions in a few weeks because of weather).

Even for fans - who want to go to a game in sub zero Arctic conditions?

Professional wise also the cost it costs clubs going weeks without football (especially in Scotland) can be fatal with many clubs bordering going bust etc.

And as for the arguement "oh we have other sports that play through summer" - who gives a fuck about other sports, they don't care for football so football shouldn't care for them.

I'd like to point out, domestically these are my views - abroad I would keep them as they are due to their weather being decent most of the year and where it isn't, these clubs are smart enough to have winter camps.

[ONEDUNME]

I was just saying the other day that i would go to a lot more live matches if they were played in summer. I appreciate that some of you die hard fans will turn up and travel a couple of hundred miles in the snow after work on a Wednesday but, for me, going to a match in August, September, April or May is just a totally different experience to the bleak midwinter.

In winter, I'm already fucking depressed even before my sack of shit concede in the first three minutes. When the weather is decent I can at least resign myself to the fact that I can have a few beers and a day out instead of sitting freezing, wet and sniffling and feeling that I can't fucking wait to get home and get in a nice warm bath.

As Kiko says, fuck other sports. Although I know from my own playing days that we always lost a few players at the beginning of every season who would still be playing cricket whilst the seasons overlapped. They're the ones who would miss out the most.

The other thing that worries me is having the closed season in winter. Fucking hell, I'd have to kill myself (which is another reason for you cunts to vote for it) knowing that I had no football for five dreary months. At least as it is now, we have the summer to fill the void.

[slick]

Well its done Rugby League a load of good both attendance and entertainment wise, our summers are custom made for field sports as its a rarity the temperatures are hot enough to be uncomfortable, plus with the price of Electric being what it is imagine the savings that can be made with the light nights lol.

My biggest fear is winters becoming more miserable than they allready are, imagine the thought of a long winter with no footy to watch, it sounds unbearable, at least in the summer you can get out of the house and do other things , even if its just sat in the garden having a few beers in the fresh air tanning that bald patch.

[ONEDUNME]

Originally Posted by slick

My biggest fear is winters becoming more miserable than they allready are, imagine the thought of a long winter with no footy to watch, it sounds unbearable, at least in the summer you can get out of the house and do other things , even if its just sat in the garden having a few beers in the fresh air tanning that bald patch.

I'd echo those sentiments Slick. Well I would do if I hadn't already said them LOL.

I'm starting to think youve started skipping my posts

[slick]

, I do what i usually do m8, read the first post then post as not to be influenced then read up.

I did then notice you had said the same thing but was hoping you wouldn't notice

Ditto what ODM says