Southgate Hits Out At Early Premier League Start
The 2018-19 campaign got underway on August 10, only 26 days after France beat Croatia in the World Cup final in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium and 27 after England lost to Belgium in the third-place play-off. It meant players in England’s top flight had a week less to recover than those playing in LaLiga and Serie A and two weeks less than Bundesliga stars. And Southgate, whose team take on Spain in the Nations League in Seville on Monday, thinks some club managers were put in an “impossible situation” by having to field players who had been given so little recovery time after Russia....