Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[NZBlue]

I assume if next season starts behind closed doors liverpool will still get to play their tricky away fixtures at neutral grounds?

Yeah, Stockley Park, same as this season

 

[Brendan110_0]

Have to admit the included crowd noise BT are using in the Dortmund game does improve the viewing experience.

Canned crowd ffs

 

[inchy14]

rascal,its a bot
marvin isn't a person ,marvin is a bot, I wouldn't engage , it will repeat its self over and over again,with no emotion for people or the game,infact it doesn't give a fuck if people die as long as it can watch soulless football

I’ve had to put him on ignore, I couldn’t take anymore of his bollocks.

 

[Boris Becker’s Backhand]

Don't do anything then, ever. No the Premier League is not a special case so do not make it so.

It's 'safe' to play sport outdoors. The measured sample of people who tested positive for the virus in the week 24 May to the 30 May was 0.11%. That's 1 in 1000 and this is profoundly an illness that badly affects the old and the immune-compromised. Even if hitherto healthy young adults were equally affected there are very few footballers who have tested positive for the virus.

Instead of having a blanket lockdown, and pretending that this virus affects everyone equally, we should recognise what has been obvious for months: this virus overwhelms a number of elderly, particularly if they have other conditions that leave them immune-compromised. Focus on protecting the weak and the vulnerable in society. That is what a welfare system is supposed to be for.

Spot on Marvin, speaking sense and backing it up with statistics rather than just emoting like the more prolific posters do

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Betting in lockdown, just one thing missing.

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

After another round of mass protests against slavery and the death of 'humble gentle giant' George., i see no reason why football fans should not be allowed to congregate outside stadiums or any where else they want to, in order to enjoy the return of football. Providing they stay 2m apart like the muppets did today and the last week , and what they will do tomorrow ? how the fuck can they discriminate against any football fan wanting to do the same.
I hasten to add that i can't stop saying 'What the fuck' to myself . What kind of fucking country do we live in? Don't tell me that it's one that cares because it clearly isn't. I wonder if we'll get reports in a few weeks time that the virus is killing a disproportionate number of BAME folks, who are they going to blame ?

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

Spot on Marvin, speaking sense and backing it up with statistics rather than just emoting like the more prolific posters do

The reason for a blanket lockdown rather than a selective lockdown is because the virus can be passed between humans of all ages. It is clearly killing a disproportionate number in higher age groups and the male population, and ethic groups, it is also killing people that are receiving higher doses of the virus ie NHS, Transport Workers , Check Out staff etc. Just because a fair slice of our population will catch it and suffer no ill effects or very little, doesn't mean to say they are not vital to helping control and eradicate it. From what i see, the younger element of our society seem to be the care free fucking idiots that are keeping the bodies piling up.

 

[johnmcfcagain]

Don"t know how to do this properly but I agree with Marvin and Boris Becker (a sentence I never thought I would write). Football is a huge business that supports the livelihoods of many who are not on huge salaries. As a business it must try to survive in a diminished form just like shops, cafes, pubs and restaurants and any other business you can care to mention. There is absolutely no prospect of legitimate mass gatherings of sports fans in the forseeable future so the Premier League clubs play their Ace card of armchair TV fans and gamblers around the world. Who can blame them? As distasteful as it is, suck it up and save your pity for the hundreds of football clubs around the country who depend on gate money to survive and will find no salvation in a TV contract.

 

[johnmcfcagain]

Yes Franny, I think you are right about the yoof's cavalier attitude to the virus. I'm knocking 60 now but in my teens and 20s and 30s I thought of myself as invincible - as do the yoof of today. On top of that the stats clearly show that it is the elderly who are really at risk from this virus or key workers who get a massive exposure to it, or those with an underlying condition. So why would the yoof worry about gathering together. You would hope that they would take a wider view and be mindful of older folk to whom they might unwittingly transfer the virus. But when I was their age I must admit that my selfish desires for fun with mates and the opposite sex and my passion for causes would have clouded my judgement.

 

[Boris Becker’s Backhand]

The reason for a blanket lockdown rather than a selective lockdown is because the virus can be passed between humans of all ages. It is clearly killing a disproportionate number in higher age groups and the male population, and ethic groups, it is also killing people that are receiving higher doses of the virus ie NHS, Transport Workers , Check Out staff etc. Just because a fair slice of our population will catch it and suffer no ill effects or very little, doesn't mean to say they are not vital to helping control and eradicate it. From what i see, the younger element of our society seem to be the care free fucking idiots that are keeping the bodies piling up.

Democracies function on citizens making sensible decisions. Give people the benefit of the doubt, youngsters know to stay away from the old and the infirm. Nanny state doesn’t work. Lockdown served its purpose, now trust the population to behave sensibly