The alternative is everyone compromises a bit. There are financial packages agreed between governing bodies in return for mutual reduction of fixtures
The thick headed players are threatened with actual sanction for breaches of Covid protocol. These actual sanctions, lengthy bans for...
But if one gets it, it can spread like wildfire, like at Sale Rugby, because they're not distanced from each other.
The reason we have this fixture chaos is because there are lots of governing bodies at national and international level who are desperate for money. The FA's income is hit as well...