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Last season
I stopped dragging the players in on Christmas Day some years ago.
I just couldn't see the point in them sitting in the car for, what in some cases is a three-hour round-trip, for an hour's training, when they could spend the day with their families. I think it's more likely to affect their performance if they are training, or stuck in a hotel, when they could be with their kids. One day doesn't make a lot of difference. I've seen clubs where they have their players swimming at 8am, or boxing. It's not as if they get the day off completely. The fitness coach gives them some work to do, and they have to wear heart monitors to prove they do it. We've also made sure they can't just put the monitors on the dog -
I just couldn't see the point in them sitting in the car for, what in some cases is a three-hour round-trip, for an hour's training, when they could spend the day with their families. I think it's more likely to affect their performance if they are training, or stuck in a hotel, when they could be with their kids. One day doesn't make a lot of difference. I've seen clubs where they have their players swimming at 8am, or boxing. It's not as if they get the day off completely. The fitness coach gives them some work to do, and they have to wear heart monitors to prove they do it. We've also made sure they can't just put the monitors on the dog -