There can be no doubting that you get value for money with the Badgers at the moment.

Entertainment that warms the cockles on the dark winter afternoons and evenings. But should we, the fans, have to risk pneumonia, or wasted journeys to far-flung places?

Our game at Spalding wasn't the only game to fall foul of the seasonal weather.

In fact, only one game in all three Unibond divisions survived, and clubs of a much higher profile also struggled to get games on.

Which meant that the hoary old chestnut of a "winter break" raised its wearisome head once again.

Various talking heads and rent-a-quote former managers and players get shoved in front of a microphone to bemoan the problems of playing with a nip in the air, or with the rain damaging their beautifully styled hair.

The thought process being that we should take the winter months off in the expectation that the weather will be better in March and April. Apart from the chaos this would cause to the fixtures list, and the additional number of midweek games that would ultimately lead to a fall in crowd numbers, it all ignores one very simple thing.

The British weather is nothing if not unpredictable. To instigate a winter break assumes that we know when the weather will be playable, and when it won't.

I was wearing a T-shirt the other day. Sheffield got flooded in June.

The idea works in Europe because they have "proper" weather, with discernable periods and timescales.

This very week at Dabs Towers we had hailstones, bright sunshine, gusting winds and a snow shower, in the space of no more than 30 minutes.

So, when Sir Alex, Arsene and the rest of them start complaining about having to stand out in the wind and rain, watching their pampered prima donnas earn our yearly wage in a few moments, forgive me if I am short on sympathy.

It is shows scant regard for the every day fans who stand in the wind and rain precisely so that when Neil Harvey scores with the last kick to win a game we were never in, it truly matters. We've earned that goal.

And we're bloomin' well going to enjoy it.