International call-ups have decimated the League One fixture list for the coming weekend, with postponements only likely to increase…
It can be infuriating. The aggregator accounts on Twitter and Facebook dangle the hook loaded with the bait of “Only 12 days until league football returns!” — either wilfully or carelessly overlooking the 150,000-plus fans who watch League One and League Two in England each week. But those fans do not need telling that the leagues below the Premier League continue in spite of it, not as a result of top-flight fixtures happening on a given weekend.
The break was once the perfect chance to give both the EFL’s lower leagues a deserved moment in the spotlight, but the number of postponements puts League One, in particular, at a crossroads.
There could be scope for a higher threshold — for example, five international call-ups or more from one side resulting in postponement — to avoid punishing teams who know they will have to regularly release players to represent their national team.
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