Graham Westley
EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER

IT’S one thing planning for football at Christmas. It must be quite another thing planning for a Covid Christmas.
In normal circumstances, there are an enormous amount of important factors to consider. My top 5 are these:
First, it is around the halfway stage of the season, the scene is set and clubs know where they are at. Christmas is a defining time psychologically. A relegation fight can become a promotion charge and vice versa.
It is vital for a manager to be able to create and react to the mindset possibilitie...