Too much football on TV has led to a saturation of the Beautiful Game

Guy Henderson of the Torquay United Yellow Army Podcast writes exclusively for you...

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HERE is far too much football on television. I thought this to myself as I sat watching the Nations League final between Spain and Portugal on the box the other night.

It wasn’t that it wasn’t a good game, because it very much was. It was a thriller, and in the end it all came down to the tension of a penalty shoot-out. But the season should be over by now - all done and dusted.

There comes a time, terrible though it is to say, when we should just let go of football for a little while, so it’s all shiny and new when we pick it up again in August.

The Nations League is a competition few fans really understand, or care much about, and we would be none the poorer if it just went away. We have a World Cup every four years and European Championships in between them. That's enough, surely, for everyone.

Any day now there will be the start of something called the FIFA Club World Cup, which has been going for donkey's years but is about to get a great big star-spangled makeover.

Played at venues across the United States, it will run for the rest of June and quite a long way into July, pitting the best club teams from all around the world against one another.