"If you've got a couple of games a week it's very difficult to get your proper work done," said Dowie, who was again the subject of media speculation this morning that he will walk out of City in order to join Leicester with one bookmaker offering odds of 4/6 that he will.
"For instance it's hard to prepare for playing Ipswich away when you're playing Palace on the Tuesday as we will do. "Because of the recovery time you have to do things a lot shorter and sharper. "You can go through things on the video but it's not quite the same as doing it on the pitch. "It might have been good for us if we had been able to keep things going without the international break."