Football's world governing body Fifa has been warned players are willing to go on strike if they continue to be overworked. I copied and pasted this from a report, what do the Bunkerites think. Most of us worked long hours but never complained about being overworked maybe under appreciated and underpaid at times though.
A study focused on young players warned how much stress their bodies are under and highlighted the number of minutes Real Madrid and England’s Jude Bellingham has played before he is 21.
The midfielder, still just 20, has played 18,486 minutes in his career, compared to the 3,929 David Beckham played and 6,987 minutes Frank Lampard played at the same age.

They could try a double shift with the North Sea blowing up your trouser leg.
No sympathy whatsoever…top footballers are over pampered, overpaid and overrated.

Then why increase their working schedule with so many meaningless international friendlies, or sanction so many exhibition games, or increase the number of participants in European Trophies, Euros, World Cups, etc?
Plus try comparing to the likes of Bobby Charlton, Alan Ball, etc eras - bigger Leagues then, first team players played in every game as squads were not as big so played every cup game too (both cup comps), worse pitches, heavier ball, arguably poorer physio and medical facilities, poorer diets, many smokers, etc
They don't know they've been born.

Bunch of overpaid Arseholes.
And Klopp fulla shit regarding fixtures congestion.
Anyone defending them is a full Bellend who deserves a life sentence.

No wonder footballers are so detached from fans at the top level.

Was it Lawrie McMenemy who took Sunderland players down a pit to show them what hard work was really like?

It"s about money, not players welfare. They'll be wanting to trim off less profitable fixtures so they can play more money spinning ones.

Pools players seem to down tools regularly each season. Usually about November.

As for the millionaires - we are constantly told what a short time they have as professional footballers. There will be plenty of time to rest when they retire to count the cash at 35.

Let’s be honest, they keep saying their career is over at 35…well get another job then like everybody else has to.

they all do and with the contacts they make in the game they,d get a better one than a 35 year old who loses their job by contracting an illness that stops them doing a job they have done since leaving school.

once it was pointless buying a programme to see who the teams were as apart from the odd injuries or drop in form it was same week in week out. cup replays that went onto neutral grounds that never seemed to end, players playing in every single game of a season were not rare. we all know what would happen if they reduced the number of league games and have a winter break. just more friendly games in the sun for more money as season tickets would not reduce in cost for a start. possibly its not too many games they are playing but weakening the players bodies by over training, modern fad diets and other rules players have to follow just to find an edge that does not exist as all clubs are doing the same. when saturday does come what do fans get, a watered down version of the game we once saw with more effort at times seen in pre rehersed goal celebrations and multiple roling around on the pitch if someone touches them. the worst thing is gates are rising when there are more reasons for them to drop.

Wow interesting statistics and scary.

I’ve been in scarier situations at ‘work’ and got paid a lot less and more injuries than those poor footballers…..then in my mid thirties got a daft job….really boring, but no stress.
My heart does not bleed for them.

Lets not be “hastie” Eh, We will go on strike after the Euros.

It's a complete piss take- when you consider the vast majority of prem players earn more in a week sat on the subs bench or in the treatment room than a working man has to graft for in a year.

Or top players at top half a dozen clubs earn more in a week than most do over several years- it's not the 1950's or pre prem silly money when it was a short career and you would still have had financial worries after packing up playing.

As someone alluded to above- they gave the clubs a winter break last season - and all the clubs did was to arrange games in hotter countries to rinse even more money - only from abroad. They weren't at all concerned with resting players and then it makes for longer season, which only finishes last weekend. They're just greeeeeedy bastard's - the lot of them. No sympathy and it just makes my piss boil- given the shit I have to put up with during a typical working week at the chalk face!

The most disturbing thing in top level football nowadays is how the players are so aloof, oh they’re sold to us , but I find it difficult to relate to these rich young men and their remote lifestyles …..and have little sympathy for them…..they are very well paid and venerated, but the modern game lacks real characters, they’re just colourless academy products built to a spec.

Let them go on strike, it'll be the end of the gravy train for them as interest in football declines due to there being no games. TV deals will be reduced as will sponsorship, advertising income, and commercial revenue in general.
I suspect that the vast majority of football fans will have very little sympathy and show zero support for strike action.
It won't be a step change for Pools anyway because most of our players have been on a go slow for the last couple of seasons.

Newcastle have played 2 friendlies already, their season only finished 2 weeks ago. No sympathy whatsoever with these top teams. Cancel the stupid nations league for starters, stop teams travelling the world for money friendlies. Stop having a league in the champions league, make it for champions only. No wonder i hardly ever watch a game in the top flight anymore.

actually the biggest surprise to me is why so many carry on supporting these clubs and not find something else to occupy their spare time. more reasons not to go than there is to go. this is something that hasn,t just cropped up recently but has been going on now for at least 25 years. shows something is wrong when a teenager decides to support walsall over the bigger west midlands teams for the only reason of being shocked because their players actually spoke to him and other fans. if somebody off the stage and screen tret their fans with contempt and silence like premier league so called stars it would be all over the media. they should be proud of even being askd for an autograph off adoring kids and not think of em as a bloody nuisence.

Crowds in non league are shooting up, even in Scotland crowds are going up compared to the big guns. A lot have had enough, its only going to get worse. Lets be honest most see the premier league as a micky take with man city winning everyrhing before them while having 115 charges against them.

Overworked,don’t make me laugh.
They want to try doing 3x24hour shifts in 5 days.

but are gates at the big clubs in scotland and england falling even with the prices charged for a single game. then there are the armchair fans buying into the hype of a talked about game of the season that ends goaless but are quick to come back for more of the same. there will be some who have turned their backs on the game at the top but fans of non league clubs go for the ease of access to most grounds and parking and are not football snobs.

tell someone they look tired or they should be will automatically feel tired whether they are or not. possibly something thats happened to all of us at one time or another.

Man City going to take legal action against the financial rules, Arrogant Bastards.
I would relegate them.

mind you is it better to go on attack than sit back and wait to defend charges. does sound arrogant but you have to look at things from their viewpoint even if you have zero time or respect for that club.

In my opinion, they're never going to nail Man City for the simple fact that they have more money than the Prem and will just keep appealing on technicalities until the Prem have spent up.

That's why the Prem hammered Everton and Notts Forrest as neither club has an infinite stream of money unlike Man City.
It's not right or fair but life doesn't tend to be.

plus its always been the case that even in cup games and play offs the bigger so called sides get the breaks from the match officials. those who remember cardiff and bristol must agree even if we for once came out of it well at bristol for once.

Gates wont be affected at the top because of day trippers etc latching on to these clubs. But the premier league is imploding. The crowds in non league and even in league 1 and 2 are fantastic. Clubs like Stockton way down the pyramid getting 800 to 1000 at times, just today reading about a wolves fan saying he cant afford to take his son anymore, hednesford town emailed him, said heres a phone number we will do somethong for you.

This is why pools need to keep prices affordable. Let the premier league eat themselves alive in 10 years time who knows we might have 6000 crowds instead of 4000.

If Man City's owners get their way with their legal action and are allowed to spend even more on their toy than they do already, the only hope for the Prem is a European Super League.

Toot your horn in support if you seen them at a roundabout near you..poor beggars

really the premier league has little affect on pools and the rest in the north east. there is only the mags and the next nearest is well over 120 miles away. just cannot see the average dad and lads doing a journey like that for every home game even if they wear those shirts in shame. the other two local still think they are part of the premier league but feel pools have a better chance of promotion than those two have who love to go into meltdown.