feels like we have one every 2 weeks and i hate it, i want to see club football

Less and less people interested in watching boring internationals

Does anyone actually care about international football though? I genuinely don’t feel any connection to the English National Team and it seems like every time there is an international break people just seem to be waiting around to watch their clubs again?

The solution is simple: stop having international breaks constantly and instead set aside a month either in season or at the end of the season for all international qualifiers to be played. That way the international teams get time to get into a groove by playing together, instead of this week together then a month off then a week together. This also stops club football from being so massively disrupted constantly, and allows for better spreading of cup and European commitments because it frees up a bit more time overall (when you consider that international week effectively wipes two weeks off the calendar but only results in two games played.) I’d be on board with the domestic season finishing in April then there is a month to play international matches in May, with players then getting June off and back for pre-season in July. In world cup and Euros years the schedule can maybe shift a few weeks given there will be no need for qualifier month in May.

Lost the winter break last year to the world cup, so now they are more frequent as they try to catch up, already not long after they increased the number of games by implementing the nations league. Almost as if UEFA & FIFA don’t actually care about anything but ticket money.

so many injuries that arent needed resulting from these pointless matches

As a spurs fan, I personally think international breaks are too short. They should be extended till the new year I think.

Yes we on the international break.

How do you think national associations like Malta get money? By having international games. The number of international games haven’t increased over the years it’s the club games that have increased. People accuse FIFA and UEFA of being money hungry when it’s the clubs who voted for more games in the CL so that they get more money, it wasn’t imposed on them by UEFA.

This sub really did a 180, I remember a post similar to this during the last break and people were telling OP to touch grass and that he can live without PL for a weekend.

You do realise international major tournaments cannot happen without international breaks

Considering my national team has been pointless to watch since 2018 except for those six matches where we just bullshitted our way into the world cup, so I dont have high hopes, nor do I care for this break

I have a proposal to solve this madness. I’ve been thinking about it since noon, so it’s well thought out.

Hear me out: Each summer before a major tournament there is qualification tournament. Eg 2021, 2023, 2025 are all qualifier years.

In that summer we make it such that each national team plays around 5 games. We devise a simple group system.

That’s it.

You’re welcome FIFA

Was thinking the same thing. Feel like there’s one every three weeks now. Very excited to see England play Malta, should be very interesting….

When you’re from New Zealand and New Zealand is your national team. There’s nothing worse in this life than an international break. I did get excited a while back because NZ were playing Sweden and I would’ve liked to have seen Alexander Isak put a few past us. They left him outta the team completely. So every break is misery for me

But I’ll take this one because the Toon needs a good nap and a bandaid