There’s a strange story on BBC Lincolnshire that Lincoln City’s players will be training at home on Christmas Day. This is dressed up to sound as if David Holdsworth is some kind of slave driver but don’t full time professional players normally go in to do a days training the day before a Boxing Day game? I’m sure I read that they would normally do that.
Holdsworth told the BBC he would know whether the players had carried out his instructions:-
“ I have to trust the players. They'll be given monitors to take home and be asked to do a certain amount of work.
"If they don't they'll be fined two weeks' wages and won't play. Is that hardline? I think it's professional."
"On Christmas Day do you want to come in? No, of course you don't," he said.
"But it's part of work. They'll be given a schedule and if they don't achieve that they'll be fined the maximum amount because they have a duty to the fans of the football club.
"The fans can know that win, lose or draw, we will have prepared correctly. It's a big game and I want us to compete in it."
That sounds like a fair deal to me although, presumably Mr Holdsworth will also spend Christmas Day in the bosom of his family, not that us fans will begrudge him that given the effort and commitment he is putting in, just saying.
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