Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

With the PL desperate to finish the league come what may, what would happen if the dippers first 11 caught the virus and subsequently passed it on to the rest of their 25 man first team squad..

Would the PL force the dippers to play their last 9 games utilising their U17's who btw played magnificently in the League Cup despite getting smashed 5 - 0 at Villa?

I only know this because it was mentioned every 5 minutes in the f"kin commentary at the time..

What if they then lost all 9 games and we pipped them to the league?

How would the media report the news?

Would there be enough wax in the world?

Would the Nightingale Units be re-opened to look after the 10's of millions of fans whose sides had split?


If only carlsberg did end of season twists..!
 
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Can’t believe 6 or 7 weeks into the lockdown common sense hasn’t prevailed. It’s obvious that LFC and VAR should share the League Title. They’ve been the best two teams in the league to date and neither could have won the league without the other. Get them crowned joint champions and we can all move on and defeat this deadly virus.
 
danielwood5 said:
This is where the FA need to step in to make sure that this doesn't happen if at all possible. They will have to look at spreading the money in the game around a lot more fairly, even if that is in the short term until things settle down or we work out what the new normal is.
Realistically though, finishing or voiding this season may not have too much of an impact on this, the biggest issue is going to be whether or not people can attend matches next season or not. This is where the majority of lower league clubs get their money from, it's not as if Macclesfield Town are getting huge payments for Sky as they're on TV every weekend.
This should give the FA a huge push to have a good look at the disparity in football finances to ensure some sense of fairness and to help protect smaller clubs who aren't bankrolled by Sky. It probably won't though.
I don't see how playing Premier League games behind closed doors at neutral venues with 30 minute halves is going to help prevent Stockport County from going bust. I haven't been following this closely but in not sure if this whole 'integrity of the season' stuff is just for the Premier League or for every team in England, if it's just for the Premiership why isn't the 'integrity' of League 2 as important?
To me it would seem better for all clubs, not just a couple of Premier League ones but throughout the football pyramid, to just call this season a dud and put all our energy into making sure that next season starts in as safe and timely fashion as possible.
The fact is that plenty of businesses are going to disappear because of this virus and I'm not sure why the government and all the other entities involved need to put football ahead of any other business at this point, if football can change it's rules and regulations to get up and running again then why can't other businesses? It's not as if your local independent pub, hairdressers, butchers or whatever have the backing of worldwide billion dollar media companies, billionaire owners or powerful and rich governing bodies. It's time all the money in football was used to look after the game of football itself and not just the interests of the G14 clubs.
That would do more for 'the integrity of the game' than any ridiculous neutral venues, 30 minute half, get the Premier League concluded pile of shite 'festival of football'.
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Fans at the football seems a long way off but it will all change if one of these vaccines works. In the meantime the interminable wait continues.

I can't see football clubs voluntarily subsidising fellow clubs. The reason why Germany and other countries are authorising football to return is because without the fans it's de-risked for the rest of the country although the points about players safety are real.

If you started to open up the high st, pubs, hairdressers etc then the epidemic might return. Football is a highly visible industry but without the fans I don't think the Government is really increasing our collective risk if it authorises its return.

Some people are naturally against any forms of regulation in the game and want to leave it to football but I agree with you. Football needs to be re-organised and the income and revenue should be more equitably divided but I can't see that happening. The game has been stratified for a long time and the influx of foreign owners threatened to break it up a little but it's still a very unequal arrangement.
 
karen7 said:
Kill me now

Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal have held talks with a German tech company who have developed an app which allows fans to send virtual cheers or jeers from their homes to stadiums in under a second, in an attempt to generate an atmosphere behind closed doors. [
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It's almost as if football WANTS me to fuck it off. I nearly fell over laughing when I read this this morning. What planet are they on?
 
Just got off the BBC teletex service. Mr Richard Bevan C.E.O of the League Managers Association seems to think that if an agreement is not reached on this Monday's meeting of the League Managers Association then the Premier League could well end up being declared null and void. There now appears to be a great divide between the rulers of the Premier League and those of the EFL Championship.

The divide is as follows: for the Premier League to continue the bottom clubs insist that there must be no relegation to the Championship. However the rulers of the EFL insist that there has got to be both promotion and relegation, between the 2 divisions. With 14 votes needed to carry on with the Premier League, and the bottom 6 of the Premier League clearly in favour of a null and void season. There appears to be everything to play for when they vote on Monday

Looks like we will not have to wait much longer, to see what finally happens, For the health of the nation we do not need football being brought back this early, when we are still in the grips of a pandemic.
 
King KdB of Belgium said:
Just got off the BBC teletex service. Mr Richard Bevan C.E.O of the League Managers Association seems to think that if an agreement is not reached on this Monday's meeting of the League Managers Association then the Premier League could well end up being declared null and void. There now appears to be a great divide between the rulers of the Premier League and those of the EFL Championship.

The divide is as follows: for the Premier League to continue the bottom clubs insist that there must be no relegation to the Championship. However the rulers of the EFL insist that there has got to be both promotion and relegation, between the 2 divisions. With 14 votes needed to carry on with the Premier League, and the bottom 6 of the Premier League clearly in favour of a null and void season. There appears to be everything to play for when they vote on Monday

Looks like we will not have to wait much longer, to see what finally happens, For the health of the nation we do not need football being brought back this early, when we are still in the grips of a pandemic.
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The Villa boss has said that at least a couple of their players will be unable to play, at least at this stage. It's self-interest, and I'm less bothered by the scousers winning than most on here, but you'd be fuming if your club got relegated under these conditions.
 
Marvin said:
Fans at the football seems a long way off but it will all change if one of these vaccines works. In the meantime the interminable wait continues.

I can't see football clubs voluntarily subsidising fellow clubs. The reason why Germany and other countries are authorising football to return is because without the fans it's de-risked for the rest of the country although the points about players safety are real.

If you started to open up the high st, pubs, hairdressers etc then the epidemic might return. Football is a highly visible industry but without the fans I don't think the Government is really increasing our collective risk if it authorises its return.

Some people are naturally against any forms of regulation in the game and want to leave it to football but I agree with you. Football needs to be re-organised and the income and revenue should be more equitably divided but I can't see that happening. The game has been stratified for a long time and the influx of foreign owners threatened to break it up a little but it's still a very unequal arrangement.
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As you say, having games behind closed doors probably won't affect the spread of the virus too much, my concern is that it will take medical staff away from places that they are needed more urgently at the moment.
Even if they do the few games in one day plan then there will still be one or two ambulances at each stadium with attendant paramedics and whoever else. At this time they can definitely by better employed elsewhere. People seem to only be thinking about the covid situation when they talk about the pressures on the NHS but even when we hopefully get a handle on it there's a huge backlog of non life threating operations and procedures that have been delayed due to medical staff being drafted in to deal with the virus. These medical personnel not only need to get back to their normal jobs and start whittling down waiting lists but they also deserve a break, they've been working ridiculous shifts for 7 days a week for some time now. I'd much prefer they be allowed a few days off rather than sending them off to support football games, however, when next season starts again in August/September/whenever it won't seem as selfish drafting them in to do the entertainment stuff (football/rugby/concerts/festivals/etc).
That's why I don't really see what the rush is to get this season finished, we're in May now and getting close to when the season should have ended anyway. The longer they faff about trying to get this season finished then the bigger impact it will have on next season, if they call this season off and done then we can start getting next season ready and not using the precious manhours of NHS staff and coppers.
By the time the 20-21 season starts then the country as a whole will be in a much better place (hopefully) and we can spare medical staff and people may be able to get their heads round an entire behind closed doors season for one year.
I really don't know how this will help the lower league clubs who don't really get any money from TV though, maybe their crowds will be boosted by people that have been turned off this season's VAR manipulation and covid related money grubbing farce.
Putting everything behind getting the Premier League finished just seems like it's to the detriment of all but two or three clubs in the English football pyramid whereas getting next season sorted out would be of benefit to the vast majority.
Media money could be an issue that would need to be sorted out but it's not as if Sky and BT don't get anything in return from the FA so it's in their interests to do what they can to help football survive too.
 
They say for the integrity of the game the Premier League should continue. Well let's look at the facts.

1. No home or away games integrity compromised.

2. Maybe more that 3 subs allowed integrity compromised.

3. Talk of maybe 30mins halves integrity compromised.

4. Neutral venues integrity compromised

How many more stupid ideas will they come up with to try and save the Premier League season. I am still waiting to see if they come up with the idea of 2 refs 1 for each half of the field.

Every time they come up with an idea, unless it is that the fixtures will be played at the original venues will compromise the integrity of the Premier Leauge
 
Jazzman said:
The Bundesliga will resume mid May
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With a very big caveat :

"They will operate an "emergency brake" if there is a new surge in infections."

I've said all along Germany will be back in lock down by end of June, they are trying to do some sort of 'on & off' switch.
 
Marvin even if they do manage to come up with a vaccine it still might not last that long. Even those looking into this matter are not sure how long the vaccine will last. It depends on which Doctor you listen to. Each one of them will say something different, so far I have heard from anywhere from 3-6 months to maybe a full year and certainly no longer. They all doubt that it will last much longer. That is why you have to renew your flu jab every year.
 
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