Laszlo wants reform of the SPL

Last updated : 07 January 2010 By Team Talk

All three are likely to miss Saturday's Active Nation Scottish Cup fourth-round tie at Aberdeen, which is subject to a safety inspection on Friday.

"The players suffer; you have a lot of accidents," said Laszlo.

"I don't know if the game will be on in Aberdeen or not.

"It can be in the afternoon in Aberdeen minus five, six, seven, eight.

"The ball doesn't have the elasticity, the pitch cannot be 100% clear for football or the muscles of the players."

He added: "I played in Hungary in the winter and you just had injured players, injured players."

Laszlo believes Scottish football must resurrect the winter shutdown - something he reckons can be achieved if the Scottish Premier League were to become a 14-16 team division in which clubs only played each other twice.

He said: "You must re-organise everything; you must make reform. But for reform you need reformers.

"If you are a reformer, you make a lot of enemies but you have development."

The arctic conditions have decimated the Scottish fixture programme of late, leading to an enforced winter break for many lower league clubs.

"Everybody suffers at the moment," Laszlo said. "You can't train. A lot of teams don't have an astrodome.

"The First Division teams are on a holiday but in the papers the league is on."

Source: Team Talk

Source: Team Talk