Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[BosnianBlue]

City's game v Arsenal now postponed which will open a few more questions and raise the possibility of a shut down....

The level of the River Mersey is rising due to the tears of Scousers sobbing their hearts out lol

I guess they'll just come across the line to mathematically secure it before it's being stopped. We fucked it up losing vs Rags, could have delayed it.

 

[aguero93:20]

Shut it down.

 

[Gazza]

Yes, peoples health comes first but how can they maintain the integrity of the competition if one team doesn't have home advantage. It's basically an away game with the return at a neutral venue.

 

[birch villa]

Yes, peoples health comes first but how can they maintain the integrity of the competition if one team doesn't have home advantage. It's basically an away game with the return at a neutral venue.

Integrity and uefa ?

 

[M18CTID]

If Arse are self isolating then shirley their games against brighton and possibly norwich fall i to the 14 day period?

Also they have played west ham since olympiarkos so shouldn't they also self isolate? Meaning hammers v wolves should also be off at weekend?

And pompey too

And remember the Olympiacos owner also owns Forest as well so there's Forest games he's attended too, starting with last Friday's game against Millwall

 

[NMB]

Yes, peoples health comes first but how can they maintain the integrity of the competition if one team doesn't have home advantage. It's basically an away game with the return at a neutral venue.

That's a great point. A mere "like" would be insufficient

 

[Gazza]

Integrity and uefa ?

I think they are fine upstanding organisation, each member has a suitcase full of money to prove it.

 

[give it to gordon]

Cant see the season finishing , wonder what will happen . I can't see any teams in the bottom 3 excepting being relegated with games left to play. I guess they could finish the season without any promotion or relegation. I really cant see them calling it null n void (unless its was City 25 points clear ! )

 

[christened at st marks]

Passed caring after the rags

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

UEFA rejected our request to postpone the game at Olympiacos

absolute stupidity from uefa yet again.

tell the jokers to fuck off

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Cant see the season finishing , wonder what will happen . I can't see any teams in the bottom 3 excepting being relegated with games left to play. I guess they could finish the season without any promotion or relegation. I really cant see them calling it null n void (unless its was City 25 points clear ! )

They will give Liverpool the title. One of the options in Italy is to give juventus the title and they’re only a point clear.

 

[Marvin]

100 % certain some member of the real Madrid set up will have been in contact with someone who has it in from the Madrid area,
If the arsenal games gone, this one will go too.

Then they don't travel. I don't think you can start quarantining contacts of contacts.

City v Arsenal went because the people involved were the players without whom you can have no game.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Then they don't travel. I don't think you can start quarantining contacts of contacts.

City v Arsenal went because the people involved were the players without whom you can have no game.

Exactly. You think West Ham aren't on to the Premier League right now, following their weekend game at Arsenal?

The genie is out of the bottle. The fans are one thing, players not wanting to play are another.

 

[give it to gordon]

UEFA rejected our request to postpone the game at Olympiacos

That is just bloody stupid, just shows that all UEFA care about it money, not the fans, the players . UEFA just care about their little cups and money

 

[Fordyboy46]

Closed door games as early as Saturday maybe?

 

[dozzie26]

This will a million per cent be postponed or played behind closed doors by next week. Them scuzzers have been given last chance saloon with it being at Klanfield, and them being behind from the first leg. If it was in Madrid tonight, their game would've been behind closed doors to take the home advantage away from Atletico. We know how it works by now.

 

[Marvin]

Exactly. You think West Ham aren't on to the Premier League right now, following their weekend game at Arsenal?

The genie is out of the bottle. The fans are one thing, players not wanting to play are another.

Who says the players don't want to play. Players wont want to put themselves and their families at risk but once the 14 days have gone, where's the risk?

If 250 if England have it, it's manageable. if it goes to ten thousand then you get these problems where everyone starts to know someone or has contact with someone who has it.

Up until now, I'd only thought about the safety of the fans, but this is a reminder that the players come into it too.

I think we should also remind ourselves that at the moment very few people have been diagnosed with the virus.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Passed caring after the rags

Me too

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Cant see the season finishing , wonder what will happen . I can't see any teams in the bottom 3 excepting being relegated with games left to play. I guess they could finish the season without any promotion or relegation. I really cant see them calling it null n void (unless its was City 25 points clear ! )

Relegate Liverpool United and maybe Villa should do it?

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Then they don't travel. I don't think you can start quarantining contacts of contacts.

City v Arsenal went because the people involved were the players without whom you can have no game.

Yet wolves can go ahead?