West Ham United midfielder Mark Noble has dismissed moaning over the Premier League's busy Christmas schedule.
Noble rightly says Premier League players should count themselves lucky they're not fighting on the frontline in Iraq and Afghanistan before whinging about the busy Christmas schedule.
"You think about soldiers out in Afghanistan or Iraq and they are not with their families and they are getting bullets fired at them whereas we are playing in the Premier League," Noble said. "You have got to put it in perspective really.
"It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players.
"We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.
"You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world."
