Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[blue oli]

From UEFA's own statement:

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/about-uefa/news/newsid=2640887.html

UEFA will take direction from national governments - the domestic leagues will be suspended and further decisions will be made, don’t plan on watching any football apart from reruns on tv until this summer folks.

It’s a slam dunk and within 48hrs our own HMG will be laying down the law on sports as well as a lot of other things that will change the way we live for a while.

The reason for the delay in meeting is that everyone will want to take advise from national governments across Europe as well as legal advice in terms of revenue loss, promotions, missed games, changes to transfer window regulations etc etc

Football is a microcosm of the change we will be seeing and the post event fall out will be just as seismic as the initial infection rates

 

[domalino]

it is 2020,they can have this meeting by conference calls set up for this evening

So just to get this straight, you think they can get hold of the right person in charge of hosting major events in London, Munich, Baku, St Petersburg, Budapest, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Bilbao, Glasgow, Dublin and the people who manage all 12 stadiums and the 11 government departments who need to be involved by this evening and they can all provide all the information immediately about whether they can host again in 12 months time and then make a decision straight away?

What fucking world are you living on? Theres a reason these tournaments are worked on for 8 years before the date, it takes a long time to organise them and postponing a year is not as simple as just phoning people up telling them.

 

[mosssideblue]

When at primary school in the early sixties a pal said his father rationed izal to two sheets per poo. Hasten to add it was well before curry houses were in full swing.

It never really cleaned your arse, just made things worse by spreading shit all over the place :)

 

[domalino]

Because there isn’t a pups chance of completing the play-offs in time even assuming that the clearance to play and to travel are available.

I am sure that UEFA would prefer the CL and the EL to be completed by running into June and July, not to mention the domestic competitions in Italy, Spain, etc.

Delaying the European Championships by one year would solve a lot of problems.

I agree delaying it would be best, but it took 3 years for UEFA to nail down the venues for this pan-European tournament and if it take 5 days to reorganise it for a year later, that's pretty good going.

They are supposedly also looking at reorganizing in just 1 country or just cancelling and need to coordinate with La Liga, Premier League, Serie A etc to even see if they could play through the summer. 5 days to work on that isnt bad.

 

[King KdB of Belgium]

However by delaying the Euros till next year, this would have a knock on effect for the World Cup in 2yrs time. Come August we are going to be playing the group games for the World Cup in 2022.

 

[kaz7]

Not making this a political thread but sounds like the Government haven't got a clue on this one, just postpone it and play it all in the summer if we can, Euro's goes back to next year.

But the cl and europia involve just as much travelling and contact with other europians as the euro's does,has nobody there got any sense,money is driving that kind of nonsense

 

[xgorton]

No mention of Barcelona game and Chelsea game next Wednesday.

 

[Chi-town blues]

6 prem stars has convid 19. 3 from Leicester city.

 

[kaz7]

So just to get this straight, you think they can get hold of the right person in charge of hosting major events in London, Munich, Baku, St Petersburg, Budapest, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Bilbao, Glasgow, Dublin and the people who manage all 12 stadiums and the 11 government departments who need to be involved by this evening and they can all provide all the information immediately about whether they can host again in 12 months time and then make a decision straight away?

What fucking world are you living on? Theres a reason these tournaments are worked on for 8 years before the date, it takes a long time to organise them and postponing a year is not as simple as just phoning people up telling them.

They are all at work,they just need to go to their office and pick up their video phone,they can start the conversation at a high level today,set out a protacol and tell people what info they need to have to make things happen FROM tuesday,i don't think you are getting that things are getting worse by the hour,it is thurs,tues is a long way off,your stats are not going to wash on this subject

 

[creditunionhero]

No mention of Barcelona game and Chelsea game next Wednesday.

Not like them to be thinking of fans, as usual.