Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[gingerprince]

Anyone with a new persistent cough or high temperature is now advised to self-isolate for seven days, as the UK government moves to the "delay" phase of its plan to tackle coronavirus.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

How can you make someone play a contact sport in these circumstances? I would imagine the Players Unions might get involved. In Italy they are practising social distancing and it would be reasonable to expect all of us to be doing the same, in the not too distant future.

No handshake last night but after getting all sweaty during 120mins there were cursory handshakes at the end!

 

[simon23]

Schools will try and be the heroes in this and stay open regardless, even though we have a battle plan drawn up for two weeks.

Schools in Rep of Ireland closed as of today. Just attended a meeting after school today...no closure yet but they are planning for the likelyhood of it...feeling is (but no one really knows) that it will be very likely to happen in about a week (country wide)... nothing concrete though

 

[ballinio]

All I heard was a load of waffle , they’re not going to do anything

 

[inchy14]

So Scottish football will be affected as they're cancelling/postponing all events with more than 500 people but in England the advice is different, baffling.

They get more than 500 at Scottish football???

 

[Shaelumstash]

Government announcing that they haven't banned sporting fixtures as there is no scientific data that supports it.

Think the players and clubs will have the final say though.

It's funny, because they're saying when the epidemic approaches it's peak, they have it "up their sleeve" that they can ban mass gatherings.

It seems to me, they are just trying to manage the capacity of the NHS.

Carry on as normal for now, loads of you will get it, then when we approach the peak, we'll start taking measures (like banning mass gatherings) so we can reduce the risk of more getting it.

Basically they're saying - some of you aren't going to make it, but we have to manage the capacity of the health service.

 

[creditunionhero]

No handshake last night but after getting all sweaty during 120mins there were cursory handshakes at the end!

Not to mention spitting going on all over the picth.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Not to mention spitting going on all over the picth.

There was a lot of spitting on the Kop and in Liverpool's technical area - but of the feather kind!

 

[Mancityus]

No ban until Liv have officially won it, they will shut everything down next day. People hurt on the way - sorry but whatever it takes to end the 30 year wait.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

No ban until Liv have officially won it, they will shut everything down next day. People hurt on the way - sorry but whatever it takes to end the 30 year wait.

Beginning to feel like that.