Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[Deleted member 77198]

Good for you, each to their own but I'll watch football the way I want to watch it though, and its not without supporters thanks.

If its not safe for me to be in my seat, then they shouldn't be playing it, as its clearly not safe for the players to play either.

The powers that be need to watch The English Game to hammer home what football is all about. There’s a line in that programme that has always been a thread throughout every fan base in the sport but the sport has lost touch with reality and have forgotten it.

 

[SiMCFC]

Players aren't likely to sing (shown to be the most dangerous activity of all because it drags up large quantities of virus particles in droplets from deep in the lungs), and they are unlikely to be socialising before and after the game. There's travel too.

Players are also on the move almost all of the time in the open air which makes transmission of a significant viral load unlikely. Transmission is a function of the time you spend close in the company of an infected person and that's very clearly a much more significant problem for fans than players. On top of that players will be very regularly tested.

Governments across Europe have approved outdoors sports without crowds presumably because they think they have a different risk profile.

Do you get off on always trying to have an opposing view about everything in life? It really must be an odd World you live in.

Yes, the players will teleport to the changing room from home to get changed in their own cubicles so they don't get within 2m's of each other,at this point they will have been locked in their cages at home to not go close to their loved ones, and same again after the match after mixing with 30+ different people just so they can play footy.

P.S the last time you made a total tit of yourself on here it was over weather and the calling off of a match, genuinely I think you may need to get another hobby so you don't rely so much on football to keep you entertained, I love footy and City but right now literally couldn't give a shit compared to 'real life stuff' going on.

 

[Marvin]

@Marvin



https://www.givemesport.com/1554721...how-footballers-are-vulnerable-to-coronavirus

surely you cant ignore this post
hotbed for viruses
very susceptible
immunosuppressed

Simple: You test for immunoglobulin levels in footballers. There are many tests for overtraining in footballers.

The discussion we were having which you got in on the back-end of was on the comparison of risk for players and fans. Yo've not even thought about that.

I am withdrawing from this discussion. Seems to me that you're just interested in validating your own views.

 

[TheCentralScrutinizer]

The players should be told what to do by the union, Arthur Scargill would have really fucked the FA and PL right off

Spot on,any half decent Union would have nipped all these crackpot ideas in the bud a while back & generally fucked the PL off until a vaccine becomes available regardless of how long it takes....

 

[Chappie]

Does anyone know how old Marvin is out of interest ?
I really can't get a handle on him,he er's from being quite knowledgeable on certain aspects to be being quite childish on others

 

[Marvin]

Do you get off on always trying to have an opposing view about everything in life? It really must be an odd World you live in.

Yes, the players will teleport to the changing room from home to get changed in their own cubicles so they don't get within 2m's of each other,at this point they will have been locked in their cages at home to not go close to their loved ones, and same again after the match after mixing with 30+ different people just so they can play footy.

P.S the last time you made a total tit of yourself on here it was over weather and the calling off of a match, genuinely I think you may need to get another hobby so you don't rely so much on football to keep you entertained, I love footy and City but right now literally couldn't give a shit compared to 'real life stuff' going on.

The weather was light-hearted entertainment. No need for your comments, but I get the message nevertheless

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

You seem to be arguing slightly different things with me, so I am going to be clear in laying out my position.

- The UK is currently not in a position to be opening up it's economy in the manner it is doing, Garden Centres included. If we'd acted sooner we might be, but we didn't so we are not. Once testing, tracing and tracking is in place, and community infections are down, we might be. Football is part of that. Until those are in place - not predictions that it will be, when it is, and is successfully running, like in Korea and Germany - then any opening of the economy will take us back to square one, damaging the economy in the process.
- The economy isn't in a recession because people should be getting on with things or getting back to work, it's in a recession because that is a very natural reaction to a once in a century global pandemic. You can't have infinite growth forever. We would be better positioned if we hadn't had a decade of austerity, but here we are. For the economy to recover, counter-intuitively, we shouldn't be rushing people back to work.
- I agree, the results of the pandemic will have knock-on efffects in terms of broader health, mental and physical. But shrugging our shoulders and pulling up our sleeves is not the best way to address that.
- I don't think it is possible for us to finish the season, given the above conditions, before July or August. I believe football is a middling priority right now. I think we might be able to play part of the new season behind closed doors, if we get to grips with things in the next 2 months. There would be ways of making things fairer, like possibly seeding teams or whatever, that everyone in the league and beyond will be able to agree to.

If we don't start to open up businesses and test the waters as it were, a bit like Wildebeest crossing the African river with the crocs waiting . Many more will die from starvation than those eaten during the crossing . It may be a brutal fact but we are going to go through further waves of infection without a vaccine . The 'country' needs to start making money rather than a government printing it. If you are lucky enough to stay home and isolate, then do so , if not you will be forced to go out to work and do it as safely as you can. I'm not against football starting because it's Liverpool winning it, but i don't consider entertainment a necessary business to restart at the moment

 

[mosssideblue]

Does anyone know how old Marvin is out of interest ?
I really can't get a handle on him,he er's from being quite knowledgeable on certain aspects to be being quite childish on others

Not sure mate and I agree with your appraisal. IIRC his location was down as being Uni a couple of years back

 

[Sky Blue]

Does anyone know how old Marvin is out of interest ?
I really can't get a handle on him,he er's from being quite knowledgeable on certain aspects to be being quite childish on others

55 yr old student.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Fresh outbreaks, on an admittedly small scale, are now occurring in China (reported on Radio 4 and France Culture this morning). Not in Wuhan, but far, far away, in the north-east. This thing is still around. Yes, part of the world has to go back to work. We've still got to be very cautious. I'm looking at people's behaviour in the streets since Monday and frankly, I'm not seeing enough of that caution. It worries me. At this point, I couldn't give a toss whether Liverpool FC are champions or not. Talk of resuming football within the next month is, in my considered opinion, irresponsible.