I put this on the other board but make no apologies fro repeating it:-

How precious are these people these days?
Burnley 1959/60 played 50 games including League and FA Cup. No subs allowed and we had Brian Miller, Ray Pointer and Jimmy Adamson playing all 50 games, Adam Blacklaw, John Angus and Brian Pilkington playing 49 games, Jimmy Robson 46 games, Alex Elder and John Connelly 42 games. That is 9 out of a team of 11 playing the majority of the games.

In 1960/61, when we were in the European Cup, FA Cup, League Cup and the League we played a total of 62 matches and used 24 players.
There are plenty of teams who have done similar over the years, however, modern football is so precious!

As someone added --they played on far from perfect pitches, unlike today ----there were also several players who were working outside football as well ---John Angus and a few others worked at the local colliery!

Today's lot are bloody mollycoddled and still moan like bloody fish wives!