Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[cleavers]

0.8% of players / staff tested positive which is a lot higher than the general population yet whilst we are mainly stuck indoors seeing businesses crumble football is allowed to continue when the risk of contracting the virus is so much greater. Madness.

I made the same point a couple of hours ago.

If that's the full test results in 6/746, it's an interesting stat (0.80%) because it's more than 3 times (0.28%) the one released last week from the community testing that was done, showing active cases in the population.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Yes he won't be back with than attitude like that!

Hypocritical of him anyway when he was trousering £50k a week from the industry for years.

The players can’t have it all ways. They either collectively agree pay cuts which it seems many are loathe to do or they do what they are told.

I personally think it should be called off but I can see why clubs are trying to get it started to protect revenue streams. The players not budging much on pay, if at all, certainly can’t be helping the decision making.

I also think all clubs should agree a no transfers policy this summer too and just promote from within.

 

[BobbyBoy]

0.8% of players / staff tested positive which is a lot higher than the general population yet whilst we are mainly stuck indoors seeing businesses crumble football is allowed to continue when the risk of contracting the virus is so much greater. Madness.

There will be 800 plus people tested in this first round, with the wealth involved it's safe to assume all 800 were asymptotic or they would have been tested already. Given that these people weren't deemed essential workers and should have been social distancing anyway then the number of positive tests probably gives a more accurate reflection of the real numbers than figure released by the government.

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

Telegraph reporting that the PL is on the hook to the TV rights holders for an additional 36 mill each week the season is delayed beyond July 16th. This is in addition to the 330 mill they owe even if the season is completed.

 

[cjn]

I've been paying very little attention to football since all this started. Can someone fill me in on what the plan is if players start testing positive for the virus (if there even if a plan)?

 

[marco]

Telegraph reporting that the PL is on the hook to the TV rights holders for an additional 36 mill each week the season is delayed beyond July 16th. This is in addition to the 330 mill they owe even if the season is completed.

all because some dickhead solicitor forgot to put the words 'force majeure' in the contract, probably that highly paid he was dreaming of his money rather than his job

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Hypocritical of him anyway when he was trousering £50k a week from the industry for years.

The players can’t have it all ways. They either collectively agree pay cuts which it seems many are loathe to do or they do what they are told.

I personally think it should be called off but I can see why clubs are trying to get it started to protect revenue streams. The players not budging much on pay, if at all, certainly can’t be helping the decision making.

I also think all clubs should agree a no transfers policy this summer too and just promote from within.

ideal time to bring in a wage cap and a draft system.

*runs off to hide behind couch

 

[r.soleofsalford]

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.

Obviously this back and forth isn`t going to change your mind or mine.

 

[Wanderingwolf]

 

[True_Blue69]

Football is making itself look like the biggest **** on the planet.

Hope you displayed the same outrage when UFC held its first behind closed doors event or golf holding a match this weekend? By the time they play it will be completely safe it's just another trade restarting. Hope it goes ahead personally and good luck to any other businesses that can start to operate again.