England manager Roy Hodgson has criticised Premier League teams who are making overseas tours at the end of the campaign.
Tottenham Hotspur will play in the Bahamas on May 23, with Chelsea going on a tour of north America next week, and Hodgson believes that such trips are disruptive to his plans for the national team.
"We've been scotched a little bit by the teams who decided to go on long close-season tours," The Guardian quotes Hodgson as saying.
"It's made the first match [against Republic of Ireland on May 29] a little bit difficult because some of the players will only have been back a few days when we've got to play and also we're scotched in that all the teams have decided to go far west to America and Bahamas.
"So they're going backward and forward on these long journeys, but that's again the situation we find ourselves in. We can't dictate to clubs what they do."
England will play Brazil on June 2 at the Macarana Stadium.
Paul Gorst
