It’s the same in the UK. Bloody football (soccer in this case) taking over the entire year. We used to have two seasons - the football season and the cricket season. Now football doesn’t finish until the end of May and starts again mid-August. Not to mention all the pre-season stuff. And heaven forbid it’s a World Cup year because then four weeks of the football-free summer disappears too.
Yes the season is extraordinary – my friends and I joke that the new football season begins before the end of the old one. And it is quite possibly true – maybe some early European qualifier is taking place before a cup final somewhere! I remember in 2019 during the first test of the ashes at the hotel afterwards (everyone staying there was a cricket fan who had been at the game) all the English stood glued to the first game of the season in the football league – I think it was in league one. They were mesmerised by it. And a day after the end of the first test I went to Nottingham and watched Notts County play a game in the conference – the ashes had barely got underway and yet the football season was already back in swing!
It’s the same in the UK. Bloody football (soccer in this case) taking over the entire year. We used to have two seasons - the football season and the cricket season. Now football doesn’t finish until the end of May and starts again mid-August. Not to mention all the pre-season stuff. And heaven forbid it’s a World Cup year because then four weeks of the football-free summer disappears too.
I don’t have a solution. It just grinds my gears!
Yes the season is extraordinary – my friends and I joke that the new football season begins before the end of the old one. And it is quite possibly true – maybe some early European qualifier is taking place before a cup final somewhere! I remember in 2019 during the first test of the ashes at the hotel afterwards (everyone staying there was a cricket fan who had been at the game) all the English stood glued to the first game of the season in the football league – I think it was in league one. They were mesmerised by it. And a day after the end of the first test I went to Nottingham and watched Notts County play a game in the conference – the ashes had barely got underway and yet the football season was already back in swing!