The Championship returned this weekend after a three-and-a-half month absence, but not without a host of changes.
Football has had to react to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic with a number of new measures brought in, mainly to protect player and staff helath.
We are slowly having to get used to the sight of stadiums being played with no fans in, while the actual product on the pitch has also undergone some tweaks.
Teams are now permitted to make up to five substitutions in a match, while each half is now stopped at the mid-point for a breaks break, given that players are now taking to the pitch in the middle of summer.
Leeds United got their campaign back under way at Cardiff City on Sunday, suffering a 2-0 defeat to the Bluebirds.
Neil Harris used all five substitutes in the match and following the final whistle Marcelo Bielsa shared his frustrations at the increased number of stoppages during the match - a common issue he has brought up in the past.
“We played few minutes in this match,” he said. “If you consider the substitutions, interruptions with water and when the referee stopped for injured players, it is one of the matches where we play few minutes.
“That is like that. We should know and we should accept some, usually, you play 60, 65 minutes, but in some matches you play fewer minutes than this."
His concerns have now been echoed by one of the Championship's most experienced players, with Reading midfielder Charlie Adam saying the new drinks breaks are not needed.
“A waste of time," he told BBC Radio 5 Live's Daily Podcast.
"There’s no point, what do you learn? If you can get a drink if there’s an injury or whatever, but the whole tempo of the game changes, the dynamic of the game changes at times. I just think you can get rid of them.
"Our game was okay, it wasn’t hot enough that you needed to stop for a drink. I think you have to look at each individual game and think ‘right, if it is too hot, there’s going to be a break’. If not we’ll just get on with it. It was raining and we were having a drinks break. I think if we can get rid of that, then great.”
Leeds host Fulham at Elland Road on Saturday afternoon.
