A survey of Football League players by the PFA has revealed their attitudes to a range of contentious issues in the modern game.
The survey reveals that the majority of players did not support new rules on added time introduced at the start of this season while views are split on the possible introduction of VAR in the Football League.
A survey of 100 players in the Championship, League One and League Two was undertaken by the Professional Footballers’ Association over the October international break.
The results were:
- Almost 60% of players surveyed do not support the new rules relating to additional time at the end of each half. Nearly 60% also said that they believed longer games, resulting from new additional time rules, were causing more players to get injured.
- Three-quarters of players surveyed said that they felt players were not given a proper break between seasons. Over 60% felt that a lack of rest and recovery time was resulting in players getting injured more often.
- Over half of players surveyed by the PFA said they had been part of a game where a pitch invasion had resulted in a player being attacked or harassed.
Less than 20% felt enough was being done to identify those responsible for pitch invasions, harassment of players and discriminatory chanting. - Players surveyed by the PFA are split almost 50/50 on whether they would support the expansion of VAR use beyond the Premier League. Almost a third of EFL players surveyed said they did not support the use of VAR in the game. Nearly 60% said that, although they broadly supported the use of VAR, the way it is currently used needed to be “significantly improved”.
The full report about the survey can be found here
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