Quote Originally Posted by griff View Post
Your last paragraph made my point neatly. We need to get games played to keep momentum going and avoid a fixture backlog at the end of the season. And imagine Leyton Orient knowing that they had to travel 600 miles there and back in arctic conditions to play a guaranteed fixture in the frozen north. Points in the bag.
That's an interesting point that you make about teams doing a 600 mile round trip for a cold Tuesday night game but don't most clubs stay overnight in a local hotel and wouldn't Utd be most affected as I'm presuming that every away game can b hours away but the other clubs only have to do it the once