Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

Why should they pay back the SKY money if it’s null and void, just take it out of next seasons money, a bit like Ryanair giving you a voucher, let SKY make a charge back.
 
I'll expect my season ticket refund soon then as seen as that is THE plan.

Convinced they are holding on until they know what will happen next season in an attempt to keep as many renewing as possible
 
Instead of talking on here get of you're arses and start lobbying you're MP , you're local councillor the newspapers, radio stations other footbal forums and anyone who will listen
Start a petition to make parliament debate it, all you need is 100000 names
The more noise you make the more people will come on board.
Its up to the public to force it because the powers that be, wont.
 
"The integrity of the game"

Neutral venues, taking away home advantage, don't address that issue. How is fair, for example, that we had to play at Anfield and they don't have to play at ours? Same goes right the way down the table of course.

Points per game doesn't address it either. The very essence of football is it's unpredictability, it's why we watch it for fuck sake! We wouldn't have won the league in 2011/12 at this stage if that was to happen I imagine nor in 2013/14 or even last season with the 14 on the bounce. Sunderland in 2013/14 would have been relegated with that formula instead of what actaully happened when the won at Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford and drew away to us to stay up. Leicester would have been relegated the season before they won the league...

The contract issue that has seemingly been shoved away; players don't have to agree to any extension. You can't guarantee a players fitness but you completely take away their chance to play althogether if their contract is up.

There has only been one solution the entire time; cancel the season.

You can't have a third team promoted from the Championship fairly, how's that in-keeping with integrity? You also can't scrap relegation but crown a Champion, how's that maintain integrity?

If the government sign off on restarting football and putting countless lives at risk, taking away PPE from the NHS and tests from the general public in order to fuflill a few football matches then they deserve every piece of tragdey that should personally befall them.
 
I said this in previous post, needs a huge fan movement to derail project restart.

It should focus on project restart being nothing to do with integrity, just MONEY

Playing behind closed doors is a sanction for clubs not abiding the regulations.

Just because PL want to finish the season doesnt mean they can just sit around

and devise a system that finishes the season and announce thats what everyone

wants. I certainly havent voted for it. The PL stakeholders meeting, were any fan

organisations participating/invited to project restart? The question to the PL should

be why are you different to the lower end of footballing tail in England.........MONEY.

Money to pay for testing, more testing and of course those costly testing machines.

Yet when the lockdown came, as thousands dying of Covid 19, Spurs and Liverpool

furloughed non playing staff so ultimately taxpayer could help them out financially.

It was the huge negative media onslaught that ensured Liverpool and Spurs had to

back down and apologise to the fans. Project restart needs similar campaign to see

them back down in shame. The country needs to be very careful that a second spike

does not lead to second wave and further tragic deaths. Country doesn't need some

contrived tv mini series of behind closed doors to finish PL season, only the PL does.

Sends a very poor message to the people who will be struggling to make ends meet

that the obscene business model that is the PL , can contrive and pay to get its way.
 
There will be no fan revolt on "Project Restart". They don't care about the matchgoing fan and, sadly, the TV lot, including out of towners, are begging for it to return in any guise.

That is all they are arsed about, not those who go to the ground and watch the games. They gain nothing from us.
 
Neville on sky now saying sergio is one of the most famous players in the world and he is saying the players are scared,says players want to play but he can't see how from safety point of football can come back,he thinks nobody will stand up and say it is safe to play football,who will put their neck on the line when everyone else is social distancing,too many problems

wish he would make up his fucking mind
 
Fred_Quimby said:
This should be in the joke thread. Nearly choked. It would mean that every team would have to play 10 games a day. Unless they played two teams at once??
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We could scrap the usual "two teams play for 90minutes" format and introduce a "Wembley doubles" format. Two players from each of ten teams with a keeper from a foreign league in net. The 1994 team league could be sorted in about 3 months. Get it all sorted over the summer months like we used to do during the big school holiday. We have to adapt to these strange times.



Do I need to include a ;) ?
 
karen7 said:
Neville on sky now saying sergio is one of the most famous players in the world and he is saying the players are scared,says players want to play but he can't see how from safety point of football can come back,he thinks nobody will stand up and say it is safe to play football,who will put their neck on the line when everyone else is social distancing,too many problems

wish he would make up his fucking mind
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Must admit I thought he came across well, and he really did put it on whoever does make the decision to start the game again. Almost as if it's all on you if something happens.
 
swinton blue said:
I think that everyone needs to be looking at doing everything possible to get the league to re start with null and void being the last resort even though i think they know null and void is the only way
This will keep the masses happy.
I think this will come down to the players.
You get a group of players refusing to play on health and safety grounds will bring all this re start talk down and there will be nothing they can do.
They cant force them to play
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You have a good point , it will be down to the players but this should be lead by fatty Taylor at the PFA , but the the PFA is funded by a percentage of the television revenue. Taylor is a massive hypocrite , stating the footballers health and well being are paramount whilst refusing to speak on behalf of the players to cancel the rest of the season. Because his fat salary and the PFA's income would seriously be affected by a reduction in the tv money.
PFA are aboute as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike , they will do as their paymasters tell them , and f*ck the players. GTIAC
 
pudge said:
"The integrity of the game"

Neutral venues, taking away home advantage, don't address that issue. How is fair, for example, that we had to play at Anfield and they don't have to play at ours? Same goes right the way down the table of course.

Points per game doesn't address it either. The very essence of football is it's unpredictability, it's why we watch it for fuck sake! We wouldn't have won the league in 2011/12 at this stage if that was to happen I imagine nor in 2013/14 or even last season with the 14 on the bounce. Sunderland in 2013/14 would have been relegated with that formula instead of what actaully happened when the won at Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford and drew away to us to stay up. Leicester would have been relegated the season before they won the league...

The contract issue that has seemingly been shoved away; players don't have to agree to any extension. You can't guarantee a players fitness but you completely take away their chance to play althogether if their contract is up.

There has only been one solution the entire time; cancel the season.

You can't have a third team promoted from the Championship fairly, how's that in-keeping with integrity? You also can't scrap relegation but crown a Champion, how's that maintain integrity?

If the government sign off on restarting football and putting countless lives at risk, taking away PPE from the NHS and tests from the general public in order to fuflill a few football matches then they deserve every piece of tragdey that should personally befall them.
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post of the year that mate
 
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