22/23 Season

So presumably if any of our players were in a team that made the World Cup knockout rounds we would be without them until their national team was eliminated?

If we are still in The Championship yes. But it seems unlikely any of our players countries will be going much further in the world cup. And we'd probably need to give those players who played in the group stage a few weeks off once they come back anyway.

If we could get promoted The Premier League is having a longer break for the whole world cup.

I like your optimism NW!

I've just worked out that next season will be played over 33 weeks if you remove the 4 for the world cup and assuming we still have the international breaks in September, October and March.

46 games, plus League Cup and FA Cup in 33 weeks.

Even if a team gets knocked out in the first round of each cup, it still means that every other week of the season will have to have midweek matches.

This season we've had a lot of midweek matches so far, but we got to the 4th round of the cup which added to that, and from now until the end of the season we only have 5 midweek matches, and that includes the Christmas fixtures.