Liverpool boss Benitez unhappy with festive fixtures

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Liverpool boss Benitez unhappy with festive fixtures
tribalfooball.com - December 23, 2006

Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez admits he's no fan of the Premiership's festive programme.
"I can't understand why we play so many games. We should respect the tradition of playing on December 26th but that should be enough," he told Liverpoolfc.tv.

"It's different. We have to accept the situation of how many games we have to play and we will try to be focused and try to do our best."

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Portsmouth boss Redknapp blasts Christmas fixtures
tribalfooball.com - December 23, 2006

Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp has hit out at the Premiership's "killing" Christmas and New Year programme.

Like most Premiership clubs, Pompey face four games in the next 10 days, starting on Saturday at home to in-form Sheffield United.

The 59-year-old Fratton Park chief, who famously "cancelled" all Christmas festivities two years ago when Portsmouth were struggling, again is not welcoming the busy period.

He said: "There are too many games. I am going to have to juggle around with the squad because I have some players who are really going to feel it.

"Four games in such a short space of time would kill them.

"We have to go to Bolton next Saturday and then Tottenham on the Monday and some of them are not going to be able to do that because it may turn out that it keeps them out for five or six weeks after that."

Poolman SG

it's a tradition .... many may not like it , but it's the English tradition to play more game on December , that made EPL so special thru'out the years !

They should not be complaining ...cos currently AZ Almaar and NEC is still playing on X'mas Eve .