OPINION: With teams like Truro, managers in the Premier League have no right to complain about fixture pile ups

You see managers like Klopp in the Premier League complain about the amount of games they have to play in a week, or even complain about playing at 12:30pm on a Saturday.

Remember that press conference Klopp stormed out of earlier in the season after losing against Man Utd? He claimed his squad had played too many games to be able to show the same intensity compared to United. 

You don’t get to see managers further down the football pyramid complain about the amount of games non-league teams have to play towards the winter period and back-end of the season due to postponements. 

But to be fair to Klopp, he was only getting paid about £20 million a year by Liverpool, must be hard.

Truro had it way easier than Liverpool this season. Take a look:

The Cornish side finished the season having played their final 13 games in the space of 28 days.

Best of luck to Truro City who are playing every half an hour in an attempt to complete their backlog of games.

Pep and Klopp would just love a fixture list this crazy…….@TCFC_Official pic.twitter.com/WALawIc959

— The Football Tavern (@TavernFootball) April 9, 2024

Just think about it. Truro City FC played NINE matches between the 4th of April and the 20th. That’s nine matches in 16 days.

In their fight for safety, the White Tigers had many fixtures to fit in, which wasn’t helped by the fact their stadium was being built. 

They had to spread their ‘home’ games across two different venues, Plymouth Parkway and Taunton Town (which is 125 miles away), which overall led to the postponement of matches.

Truro then had to finish the season playing their home games at Gloucester City, a whopping 195 miles away, yet these managers in the Prem don’t want FA cup replays…

The club did secure safety after gaining seven points from their final four games. 

It’s not like the FA made sure the matches could be played at times where the players could rest for a day…they played a match every other day for 16 days, they even played on the 10th and the day after on the 11th of April.

This type of thing happens in non-league every season, but it’s not reported on half as much.

Sky Sports picked up on the run-in and spoke to Paul Wutton, the then manager of Truro, and he said, “You can’t make it up really, it has been an horrendous situation.”