Good luck introducing a four-month break into the football calendar
In the stands, shirtless fans are drenched in sweat. The players out on court pant heavily. Liquid drips from the Boston Garden rafters.
Some may point to the fact NBA games, split into four quarters, are only 48 minutes long. Of course they can play more games – that’s only slightly more than a half of football. Dinnery calculates statistics based on injuries per 1,000 minutes of competitive minutes played – in line with Uefa and Fifa research – and only include injuries where time is lost to key fixtures, so the Premier League or Champions League.
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