Football is a nine or ten month game because of the ridiculous number of competitions that are now played, Mattk. The Football League used to start in late August (a week after the Charity Shield was played) and finished by mid to late April, followed by the FA Cup final in early May, and that was that.
The problem now is not only is the season extended to late May by at least every two years the nonsensical international competitions mean there is virtually no closed season at all. Incredible as it may seem to some not everybody is obsessed with football. With the closed season, when we are free of the lunacy, now being so short it seems fair and reasonable to respect that closure. I do hope the Dubai World Cup is postponed to the winter. The authorities here have eight or nine years to adjust and it could be easily be accommodated. The easiest way would be to cancel the inappropriately named and ridiculously lengthy “Champions League” that year.