Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[Keeper!]

Over the last 20 yrs the self same broadcasters you are criticising have relentlessly peddled the myth that sport is primarily entertainment and the armchair masses and less partisan modern match goers have fallen for it.

Top sportsmen want the money that goes with big crowds and millions of tv viewers but they’d do it for nothing, they love the competition, the testing yourself against another guy who also dedicated his whole life to being good at a sport.

Supporters are irrelevant

Agree with your sentiment, but football or sport in general without spectators is nothing, absolutely nothing.

 

[Blue Maverick]

So with the new track and trace the government can isolate towns etc, so if a group of footballers live in that town they have to isolate as Hancock says it’s their civic duty.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Money talks blues and it talks loudest.

Lets hope so

 

[Boris Becker’s Backhand]

Agree with your sentiment, but football or sport in general without spectators is nothing, absolutely nothing.

Everyone’s different I suppose. I’m fascinated by the match not the crowd. Obvs it’s different when I’m watching city cos its fun to feel part of something and to shout and scream encouragement and I’m hugely invested in the result but my enjoyment of say Dortmund v Bayern the other day wasn’t diminished one bit by a lack of crowd noise or endless pointless lingering shots of the crowd

 

[give it to gordon]

Does this means that any records broken will stand ?
Even with different rules for the remaining 25% of the season to be played, or are any records null n void

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

People are already taking to the beaches, the sun is bringing everyone out, less and less fear of this virus yet the situation is "fragile" with the "R" value. The cost of the PL restart could be very high if they dont give enough warnings and fines.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Does this means that any records broken will stand ?
Even with different rules for the remaining 25% of the season to be played, or are any records null n void

IMO yes, no one seems to be that bothered about integrity

 

[pudge]

Folk allowed to travel across the country and visit tourist destinations plus football starting up, the virus has gone!

So with lockdown and social distancing now over, what's everyone's plans?

 

[marco]

still say a ball wont be kicked, incoming 2nd wave is certain and we will have to shut down again causing further damage to the economy,two weeks is my guess when the R rate start going upwards

 

[Dodge]

So, presumably all furloughed Premier League staff are now back on the payroll?