Solskajer Slams Festive Fixture Pile-Up
December 27, 2019
1:53 pm
Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has become the latest Premier League manager to complain about the “unfair” packed programme of fixtures over Christmas and New Year.
United play their final league match of 2019 against Burnley on Saturday, just over 48 hours since competing for a 4-1 comeback win over Newcastle.
Those matches form part of a sequence of seven games in 21 days that is hard to square with modern notions of rest and recovery.
But such is the commercial appeal of the traditionally congested programme that change does …
