Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[RayCTID]

Delivered in a Chevette ffs

Classic rust bucket

 

[domalino]

Feels like it's just a matter of time till football season would be completely cancelled.

We are there basically. Tomorrow night's Europa League matches will probably be the last until May.

 

[cleavers]

Beyond that? Who knows?

Beyond that, its getting worse not better, there'll be no football for weeks if not months, so games won't be able to be played, and there'll be a backlog in all competitions, and you can't decide promotion/relegation if games remain.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

It took Liverpool no longer being able to win the Champions League for our country to ban sporting events amongst other measures. Why am I not surprised.

 

[basokla]

So a Juve player tested positive. I think it’s game over now. I would expect all sporting activities to be canceled in the next few days across Europe. Just my opinion though.

 

[Elliot houghton]

Anybody still confident about the Madrid game even if it's going to be closed doors???

 

[SidJames]

Boris Johnson being criticized,and forced to be more pro-active combating this disease.

I think by next week Schools will be closed,Sporting events cancelled,anything with large crowds.

WHO experts are saying this Pandemic has a long way to go yet.Not expected to peak until September.

I can not make my mind up if its over reactive scaremongering .Or if this is a real deadly threat to human life.

For perspective :

"Seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new estimate that's higher than the previous one of 250,000 to 500,000 deaths a year. The new figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups were published Dec. 13 in The Lancet medical journal."

 

[The blue phantom]

Boris Johnson being criticized,and forced to be more pro-active combating this disease.

I think by next week Schools will be closed,Sporting events cancelled,anything with large crowds.

WHO experts are saying this Pandemic has a long way to go yet.Not expected to peak until September.

I can not make my mind up if its over reactive scaremongering .Or if this is a real deadly threat to human life.

For perspective :

"Seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new estimate that's higher than the previous one of 250,000 to 500,000 deaths a year. The new figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups were published Dec. 13 in The Lancet medical journal."

Listen to the folk who came out with the Pandemic statement today(Who) and no fucker else :)

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Uefa should take a grip and stop all matches for 4 weeks, season starts from where it is now mid April and runs until mid June. cancel the euros until next summer.

We all know they won’t though as it’s all about £££$$$€€€€

it will be Stopped but won’t restart until June/July if not later.

 

[typicalcity...]

Rather it be cancelled than behind closed doors give us a chance to go at a later date

 

[HarrytheBlue]

If the CL continues, Liverpool getting knocked out should be a huge motivation for us to have a tilt at winning the thing.

 

[bluethrunthru]

If the league is cancelled that would be totally unfair on everyone connected to Liverpool Football Club. If it happens then I think the FA, the PL and PGMOL should do their best to make sure Liverpool win it next season, you know, a few favourable decisions from the referees, a little bit of assistance from those nice VAR officials, turn a blind eye when needed and maybe a decent run of fixtures to ensure a smooth start and an easy run in.

Well they have had enough practise it should be easy enough to arrange

 

[citymad]

I’m so happy right now I’m not even thinking about Madrid. Besides you just know uefa will scrap this tournament because of the virus if we get much further.

 

[bluethrunthru]

That’s Juve game cancelled for 2 weeks minimum as all players will have to go into isolation. That’s surely the cancellation of the competition. Just when I was starting to enjoy a potentially dipper free tournament too.

missed opportunity too - had the dippers stayed in they could have used squad rotation and used they 2nd string players who are easily as good as the first XI from their legendary strength in depth....

 

[oman0115]

I agree, they can't just stop all football and say these are the winners, these go down, this is the play offs. There's still so much to play for and Liverpool haven't mathematically won it yet. Nor could they pick FA Cup or CL winners. If they're stopping some games, be consistent and stop everything. How many Atletico fans are going to Liverpool today, 3000? From a country that is experiencing high contagion rises. Bizarre

Bingo, most fans in England couldn't care less about Liverpool and the league title, what about promotion, relegation, the bank balances of clubs who need to go up etc...

 

[citymad]

You can bet they’ll wait till the dippers have wrapped up the league before cancelled any games.,

 

[Elliot houghton]

Please not be true

 

[MCFC1993]

Probably deserves it's own thread, Government expected to announce it tomorrow.



And I knows it's Stan but he's just the messenger on this one:

 

[ninjamonkey]

Bullshit if true. Nobody wants that. You’ve got managers and players everywhere saying they don’t want to play in empty stadiums and would rather not play at all. The only option is to suspend the league entirely and then make the decision on how to move forward in the summer. Have they considered what they’re going to do when players here get it and entire teams have to go into isolation? Are they going to ask teams to play multiple times a week when the fixtures pile up straight after an isolation period almost guaranteeing injury? They’ll be legal claims everywhere from teams who miss out/get relegated claiming unfair advantages.

 

[RandomJ]

I'm sure the Dippers will accept this with maturity and not overreact in the slightest.