The Football League schedulers have been blasted by Swansea City and Cardiff City, both chasing promotion, ahead of the Easter Monday, crunch programme today. Both clubs feel that they have been given a very bad disadvantage in their quest to be promoted to the Premier League.
Cardiff is playing at Preston and is upset that Norwich that is one place better than they are has had two days additional rest before struggling Derby visits their stadium. Ipswich should be rested for their match today as the Swansea club seeks victory that will consolidate their playoff place.
After a goalless stalemate against Portsmouth, Swansea all but saw their top two dreams extinguished and their boss Brendan Rodgers said it was ridiculous and tough to play two games in just three days and even more so at the end of a long season.
He continued by saying that they had worked and worked the entire season and had played a high number of games and then to face Ipswich on Monday after they have had three full days to recuperate and because of playing later in the day, they did not have to face the heat that our team did.
Even though Cardiff’s opponents have had more less time to recovery having played later Saturday but what angers their boss is they feel they should have the same amount of time as Norwich to recover, saying it is baffling to him how certain teams get an advantage by getting more time to rest, we should have had the same time as everybody else at this late stage of the league’s season.