Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[hello]

Leicester players self isolating so presumably Villa players will have to as well seeing they played on Monday.

Villa were already isolating themselves from Liecester on Monday and adopted the at least 1m away from them at all times that match ;-)

 

[squirtyflower]

I didn't say in UK did I? But let's stick with 10,000 in the UK, anybody worried about that?

Yes, why wouldn’t anyone sane be?
Probably why we offer free flu jabs to vulnerable groups

 

[marco]

A null and void season would mean no promotion which would be very unfair on the championship clubs. Clearly there is no ideal solution. When it comes to identifying the least worst option it could be that the mid table teams, unaffected by relegation or European qualification, would end up as “honest brokers”

just a thought,if football was cancelled then start next season with clubs on the points they have when it was cancelled,so in effect a form of handicap

 

[squirtyflower]

What are they expecting to change on 1 April?

They’re going to tell everyone it was a big hoax?

(PS you have to say that with a Schteeve McClaren accent)

 

[Leveblue]

Now that thought is extremely sad, but we could always organise a game on Mellands with him!

You'll have a job, they've built houses on part of it and whats left is overgrown. The goalposts have gone, and/or the cross-bars have been removed. Mellands is no more, not for football anyway.
Just as a side note, Dave Connor used to work at Mellands, I don't think Alan Ball was with him though ;).

 

[creditunionhero]

That's according to the one model. There's other models predicting 95% of people will get infected in a 9 weeks period.

We just don't know how it's going to play out yet, so suspending things before making permanent cancellation decisions is the obvious way forward.

Really, 95% of the population is about 57million if only 0.1% of them died that would be 570,000 deaths, not much to worry about then. I would rather cancel than risk that.

 

[oakiecokie]

They’re going to tell everyone it was a big hoax?

(PS you have to say that with a Schteeve McClaren accent)

He still holds the City all time game appearances ... Alan Hoaxsssschhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[domalino]

Really, 95% of the population is about 57million if only 0.1% of them died that would be 570,000 deaths, not much to worry about then. I would rather cancel than risk that.

If 95% of people who are going to be infected, have been in 9 weeks time then there's almost no one left to infect, mass gatherings aren't dangerous any more.

Also we've already seen South Korea have changed the curve and China has dropped it to the point of not needing temporary hospitals within 6 weeks. We don't know if this is going to be a long, very slow pandemic or a pretty rapid one.


There's absolutely nothing wrong with suspending it for 4 weeks until we know more.

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

Yes, why wouldn’t anyone sane be?
Probably why we offer free flu jabs to vulnerable groups

But we dont cancel events, stop travel, shut down industry or crash financial markets do we? Yet the number of deaths puts corona in the shade. Ps got any bog roll?

 

[r.soleofsalford]

But we dont cancel events, stop travel, shut down industry or crash financial markets do we? Yet the number of deaths puts corona in the shade. Ps got any bog roll?

Havent you got enough of your own.