Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

I'm not even sure that clubs have jurisdiction to test anybody.
Are they using the same tests as the NHS or something they have bought off ebay ?
Why would footballers get preference over nurses , doctors and care workers ?
 
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After watching some of the German football yesterday it's obvious what a farce this restart is, when goals are scored they are dry humping each other, not one single fuck is given about Covid. The auxiliary staff aren't wearing masks in most cases and as for the swimming pool like noises that echo in an empty stadium it's a joke.
 
I'm expecting them to CGI crowds with full surround sound eventually.

We can all look forward to 90 minutes of magical atmosphere under the lights no matter when the game is or when it's played. Or 30 seconds on continual loop with some production assistant pressing the goal scored or conceded button.

After all, football only needs the atmosphere, not the actual fans.
 
TheBlueDune said:
I'm expecting them to CGI crowds with full surround sound eventually.

We can all look forward to 90 minutes of magical atmosphere under the lights no matter when the game is or when it's played. Or 30 seconds on continual loop with some production assistant pressing the goal scored or conceded button.

After all, football only needs the atmosphere, not the actual fans.
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No doubt they'll still blare out You'll Never Walk Alone regardless of whether Liverpool are actually playing.
 
We are supposed to play Madrid on the weekend of the FA Cup final?

If we also factor a run into the Champions League final, the fact the Premier League want the new season to start at the end of August, beginning of September, means we already have one arm tied behind our backs for the following season in terms of rest and prep.
 
mexico1970 said:
After watching some of the German football yesterday it's obvious what a farce this restart is, when goals are scored they are dry humping each other, not one single fuck is given about Covid. The auxiliary staff aren't wearing masks in most cases and as for the swimming pool like noises that echo in an empty stadium it's a joke.
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And would you believe some poor fecker is paying hundreds of millions for that TV event.

If you really think those matches are a risk we would have to stop public transport immediately, no?

German clubs finish the season to get the 750m Euros on the cards. Otherwise they wouldn't.

It's about "at least £1bn if the Premier League failed to complete the 2019-20 season".
That's why EPL will be finished as well IMO, as new cases are declining.

It's money. The risks seem to be controllable.
No winners, no party, no new point records. Just money.
 
Last Wednesday, Deeney was in a meeting with the Premier League, other team captains and medical experts.

He said: "My problem was in the meeting, I asked very simple questions.

"For black, Asian and mixed ethnicities, they're four times more likely to get the illness, they're twice as likely to have long lasting illnesses - is there anything extra, additional screening, heart stuff to see if people have got problems with that? No. OK, well I feel that should be addressed.

"I can't get a haircut until mid-July but I can go and get in a box with 19 people and go and jump for a header and nobody could answer the questions, not because they didn't want to, just because they don't know the information.

"So I said if you don't know the information, why would I put myself at risk?"

Chapeau to Troy Deeney
 
I don't think they have the 2 meter rule anywhere else in Europe. So that's why they may be dry humping after scoring haha.
 
moomba said:
Good on them and him.
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this alone should be the warning to all and the greedy premier league clubs ? am 100% behind troy deeney refusing train or we should say putting health or others first ?? is there really a big need to restart the premier league and i would say 99% of the clubs would rather call it done and start again

but we know the club (liverpool) having to be named title winners and not be handed it ? and they need to be seen to win it by playing behind closed doors and then they think nobody could question it ???? the thing is its not the same even if the fans was allowed back into the grounds the gap between the games is 3 months and nobody will be up to speed and ready and fully match fit, its just a big mess and it will never be called proper title winners

fuck the title and relegation and top 6 places we don't need it ? football should be played on a level playing field with the best possibility of getting the right results without any question marks> so if the players have to play and finish the season in june and july then what next short break and a new pre-season ?? crazy and daft
 
So players have gone into training today according to pics across all newspapers but the covid tests are not due back till 2pm.
Good start to all the protocols.
 
r.soleofsalford said:
There is a reason why there are less people dying, it`s because social distancing has removed the vehicle this virus need to infect that`s because of the lock down. Take the breaks off and it will be back £ to a pinch of shit.


Bigger picture bollocks. I hope we don`t get one of these "tiny prisms of isolated cases" happening to one of our nearest and dearest. You might think differently.

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You can’t run a society without “bigger picture bollocks”. I presume you are happy to let your children fly, or play sport or cross the road. Everything has an inherent risk. Yet groupthink nonsense ideology has people focussing only on one statistically tiny risk.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Good on Deeney for taking a stance against this farce and fair play to Watford for backing him despite them needing him. Always found Deeney refreshing. He speaks like any other regular match going fan, says things how it is and doesn’t just quote standard sound bites. The game needs more people like him.
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Nah, he's a violent prick.
 
Just heard that any players that test positive today , they & their clubs won’t be named . These cnuts really are a law unto themselves , what’s the reason for this secrecy ?
 
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