THE PREMIER LEAGUE THINK THEY PLAY TOO MANY GAMES......

There has been many column inches written today about Manchester City fielding a weakened side in yesterday's FA Cup tie at Chelsea with their Manager Manuel Pellegrini seemingly preferring to concentrate on their forthcoming Champions League game and Capital One Cup Final.

Many highly paid Premier League players are often heard bemoaning the excess amount of fixtures in the modern game with reports stating their are plans to revamp the historic FA Cup itself to midweek fixtures only and no replays. TheColdEnd (like many, if not all, non-league fans) is strongly against this and thinks keeping the competition as it is will (as it has done so much in the past) be for the benefit of football across the board from the grass roots upwards.

Some of the Premier League players could do with looking at some of the non-league fixture lists where players with full time jobs play twice a week every week.

Bowers & Pitsea are still involved in the FA Vase and also the Essex Senior League Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy along with league fixtures to complete by Saturday 23rd April. Their remaining fixture list is as follows (if they do beat Kidlington in the Vase replay they will face the winners of the Morpeth Town v Bristol Manor farm tie in a two legged semi-final) -

TUE 23/02 - TAKELEY FC 
SAT 27/02 - Kidlington FC (FA Vase Quarter-Final Replay)
MON 01/03 - SAWBRIDGEWORTH 
WED 03/03 - Basildon United
SAT 05/03 - SOUTHEND MANOR  
TUE 08/03 - CLAPTON (Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy Quarter-Final)
SAT 12/03 - SPORTING BENGAL UNITED
TUE 15/03 - Enfield 1893 
THU 17/03 - ILFORD 
SAT 19/03 - Waltham Forest 
TUE 22/03 - HULLBRIDGE SPORTS  
THU 24/03 - CLAPTON  
SAT 26/03 - TOWER HAMLETS
WED 30/03 - Ilford
SAT 02/04 - Sawbridgeworth Town 
TUE 05/04 - WADHAM LODGE 
THU 07/04 - FC ROMANIA  
SAT 09/04 - Eton Manor 
TUE 12/04 - Clapton 
SAT 16/04 - ENFIELD 1893
WED 20/04 - Greenhouse Sports 
SAT 23/04 - Hullbridge Sports