Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[Fordyboy46]

So when this virus scare is all over and football returns to normality does anyone think there will be changes to the football world ?
can see the likes of Sky and BT trying to bring the cost of the football packages down as they wont want to be exposed again to paying huge sums of money out for no product . Maybe the prem will try and take more control of the football coverage with a netflix style PPV who knows ?

Might never be the same again mate, heaven knows where sport goes from here.

 

[Gray]

Just call them Liverpool, mate.

Surely you mean LiVARpool, Ric.

 

[City Raider]

There seems to be a groundswell in the media now to end it. It would be a totally apt way for a VAR season to end.

 

[Gray]

Surely if Sky and BT tried to claim money back it would cause a domino effect? Wouldn't all the companies that paid for advertising space try to claim money back off of Sky and BT? And all the people who paid for subscriptions? And so on?

Well that would screw most Clubs, but I wonder which one would not be affected. Stick that up your arse UEFA.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

I think the issue is that if, and it's a huge if, if we in this country are in a position to start playing again in June/July, there are a lot of countries behind us on this curve where it will still be raging. It only just seems to be properly starting to take off in South America about now. I cant imagine many of the Brazilian/Argentinian players being overly keen to play if thousands are dying in their homelands at that time.

 

[birch villa]

Might never be the same again mate, heaven knows where sport goes from here.

Well the way it's been heading hopefully it may be a good thing

 

[manimanc]

Talking of var

The Premier League is happy with how VAR is working in its first season compared to the likes of Italy and Spain. The top flight acknowledges that allowing fans to hear conversations between referees on the pitch and VARs at Stockley Park would improve the process

@SunSport


*runs away*

Is that a recent quote? If so how odd of a newspaper to put that out in the middle of a pandemic. This quote alone shows how fuckin idiotic and how out of touch the media are with what's going on.

 

[give it to gordon]

Do any of you know what other fans are saying about this on their fans forum ?

Is it just here that are against this ?

 

[KS55]

I remember it well.
It was our wedding anniversary and I was going to watch the game whilst the Mrs was making dinner.
Couldn’t believe what happened, or that they even considered playing the game

Think they were worried that a riot would ensue if game called off.
A colleague and I were coming back from a business meeting, turned car radio on to listen to game.
We were not surprised to hear there was trouble. It was commonplace wherever Scousers went. Plus ca change.

 

[birch villa]

Is that a recent quote? If so how odd of a newspaper to put that out in the middle of a pandemic. This quote alone shows how fuckin idiotic and how out of touch the media are with what's going on.

The key bit is " the premier league are happy" well we all know this too well. Help liverpool win the league sell product to Asia etc rinse repeat next the great rag comeback and so on and so on £££££££££