From Boxing Day, December the 26th, we entered a run of fixtures where we get 4 full Premier League gameweeks inside a fortnight: we only have 4 days of the 14 up until Thursday 8th January without a match on them. (It's even worse for those of us who live in more easterly latitudes: most of these games are late at night for us, or in the wee small hours of the morning - so, we won't have any opportunity to catch up with them until the following day,.... which can throw the internal sense of chronology out-of-whack even further!)
Gameweek 19 is staggered over Tuesday and Thursday this week (at least we're all getting a 'day off' for New Year's Eve!!); so, we only have one full day clear - today, Monday the 29th - to ponder team revisions before the next FPL deadline.
We again only have one clear day before the Gameweek 20 matches this coming Saturday and Sunday.
And although most of midweek Gameweek 21's fixtures are on next Wednesday evening, for no conceivable reason (well, OK, it's TV scheduling; but is that really a good enough reason, at this time of year, when players and fans alike are not getting nearly enough time off...?), West Ham v Forest is on Tuesday and Arsenal v Liverpool is on Thursday.
So, for 3 Gameweeks running, there is only a one-day gap between the end of one and the beginning of the next. It is very difficult for the beleaguered FPL manager to keep up. Over the coming two weeks, many are, no doubt, going to inadvertently miss a deadline - or hurry into changes without having had any chance to check up on all the relevant team news. It is a beast.
At least we've then got a 'mini-break' coming up,.... with Gameweek 22 not starting until lunchtime on Saturday, 17th January. I think we're all going to need this little bit of a rest from the game.
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