00:00As we sit here right now, we don't know when your League Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace is going to be played,
00:06because there is, to put it mildly, a pile-up of fixtures.
00:10Not on Christmas Day, I think.
00:12It's an option.
00:13It's an option.
00:14Okay, hopefully not.
00:16I'd like you to speak to me about where we've got to now regarding players and supporters,
00:23and how the amount of fixtures and how often they're coming is beginning to affect both players and supporters.
00:29Well, every decision that we make in terms of a fixture has to be guided on two main things.
00:36I think players' welfare and then supporters.
00:39That's it.
00:40And the rest has to come very, very far away from that.
00:43And we should never forget that principle.
00:45That's the only thing I would say.
00:47Are we in a situation sometime soon, not now, but maybe in a season or two,
00:53if this continues in the amount of fixtures that big clubs are having to play,
00:58they may have to pull out of some competitions because they just can't fit all the games in?
01:02I hope we don't go.
01:03If we have that big piece of paper with those two principles there in front before we make any decision,
01:08all of us in our industry, we won't get there.
01:11If we don't and we just ignore that, then anything is possible.
01:15We'll get it again.
01:16.
01:17.
01:18.
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