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Wouldnt it be great for all the people who worked hard in service indudtries, health and social care, hospitality and catering and retail etc etc, many who are on the min wage to be given an
extra day off tomorrow because they are tired.
Well thankyou to all those people but trying to work out how footballers earning in a week what lots of us earn in one two or three years or more for playing at the most 38 matches a year deserve this priveledge.Let’s nail this once and for all.
It wasn’t about giving players a rest as much as it was about giving as many fringe and young players as possible the chance to show what they can do in a proper competitive game.
There was a quote from Martinez in the Mail on Sunday, I think, which said exactly that but I don’t have time to find it.
You’re right that players should be able to play all 38+ games without the need for a rest – but that wasn’t the reason for the weakened team on Saturday.
Following on from Griff’s post:
There are other occasions where players are rested and it’s comparisons of their resting against resting in ‘normal’ jobs like the first post in the thread that gets my goat.
‘They’re paid a million pounds a year. They don’t deserve a day off. ‘
Footballers are paid to be physically fit, and obviously, they perform best against other physically fit footballers if they are at absolute optimum fitness levels.
Resting them isn’t a case of them being tired after a long day at the office; aside from fatigue, they’re also resting aching limbs, strains, dead legs etc, and it’s the club’s medical staff who decide who needs resting and when, not a player telling the manager he’s a bit tired.
Football these days is a multi-million pound hi-tech industry and it’s all about having the edge over the competition – whether that means resting a player, changing their diet, addressing their lifestyle etc.
So when someone in (eg) retail is measured by their physical performance against another person, and they’ll be roundly booed and ridiculed by twenty thousand people if they seem heavy legged or are not pulling their weight, then their employers might think about giving them an extra day off too.
Here’s the quote I was referring to, reproduced in the Lancashire Wotsit.
Wigan Athletic manager Roberto Martinez defended his team selection for their 1-1 FA Cup draw against Bournemouth.
Martinez made nine changes at the DW Stadium and could only salvage a 1-1 draw after going behind to the League One outfit.
The Spaniard said: “I do show the FA Cup respect.
“There are youngsters here I feel have a bright future, but we will never accelerate their development unless we play them in these competitions.
“That is what we have to do at this club.
“I don’t just want to win games in the short term.
“The first team has to be part of a learning process. Fighting relegation is not an environment for youngsters to show what they can do.”
Not a word in there about resting players.
This bit – “I don’t just want to win games in the short term” – could lay him open to some cynical retorts, however!
Following on from Griff’s post:There are other occasions where players are rested and it’s comparisons of their resting against resting in ‘normal’ jobs like the first post in the thread that gets my goat.
‘They’re paid a million pounds a year. They don’t deserve a day off. ‘
Footballers are paid to be physically fit, and obviously, they perform best against other physically fit footballers if they are at absolute optimum fitness levels.
Resting them isn’t a case of them being tired after a long day at the office; aside from fatigue, they’re also resting aching limbs, strains, dead legs etc, and it’s the club’s medical staff who decide who needs resting and when, not a player telling the manager he’s a bit tired.
Football these days is a multi-million pound hi-tech industry and it’s all about having the edge over the competition – whether that means resting a player, changing their diet, addressing their lifestyle etc.
So when someone in (eg) retail is measured by their physical performance against another person, and they’ll be roundly booed and ridiculed by twenty thousand people if they seem heavy legged or are not pulling their weight, then their employers might think about giving them an extra day off too.
Your above comments had been on the tip of my fingers since the Bradford game but considering how long it to took some people on here to come to terms with the 3-4-3 formation implemented last season I thought sports science was a subject better left to rest.
Following on from Griff’s post:
There are other occasions where players are rested and it’s comparisons of their resting against resting in ‘normal’ jobs like the first post in the thread that gets my goat.
‘They’re paid a million pounds a year. They don’t deserve a day off. ‘
Footballers are paid to be physically fit, and obviously, they perform best against other physically fit footballers if they are at absolute optimum fitness levels.
Resting them isn’t a case of them being tired after a long day at the office; aside from fatigue, they’re also resting aching limbs, strains, dead legs etc, and it’s the club’s medical staff who decide who needs resting and when, not a player telling the manager he’s a bit tired.
Football these days is a multi-million pound hi-tech industry and it’s all about having the edge over the competition – whether that means resting a player, changing their diet, addressing their lifestyle etc.
So when someone in (eg) retail is measured by their physical performance against another person, and they’ll be roundly booed and ridiculed by twenty thousand people if they seem heavy legged or are not pulling their weight, then their employers might think about giving them an extra day off too.
Your above comments had been on the tip of my fingers since the Bradford game but considering how long it to took some people on here to come to terms with the 3-4-3 formation implemented last season I thought sports science was a subject better left to rest.[/quote]
It’s one of my biggest bugbears, Salford, the old:‘I used to put a shift in down the pit then play a full ninety minutes without complaining’
Yes – but you were shite at football and if you went on the pitch with modern day footballers, you’d be made to look slow, stupid, and like someone who had just done a full shift down the pit.
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