Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[gordondaviesmoustache]

There is an option for penalty shoot outs if no result in competitions. It solves distancing and makes hygiene issues easy to apply. Players do not even have to fully change or shower after. Minimal chance of injury with no contact. Win, draw, lose according to pens scored from 5 by each side. New ball each pen. Could complete in a day, especially if more than one goal is used. All present can wear facemasks. However refs would have a problem blowing a whistle wearing a facemask.

Q. Why has no-one proposed this in the media?

A. Because it is equally as crap as all the other proposals to finish the season!!

Disagree; it’s better than many of them!

 

[Phil1]

What the fuck?!

I see @hodge is on twitter.

 

[A J Styles]

I dont get why the usual crop of Liverpool 'legends' don't play against the team of this season if they want everyone else to play and then see themselves how tragic it is, in a empty stadium, barely touching eachother.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

It seems clear that the overwhelming majority of PL clubs (including us) support the completion of the season by any means possible. The only way I can see it not happening is if a large proportion of players of most clubs say they aren't prepared to do so.

I was naively hoping our club would take the opportunity to adopt a scorched earth policy in order to weaken our rivals. This would involve stating categorically that the current season could only be completed when games could be played in the usual way & they would be taking legal action if forced to participate under any other conditions.

Let's see how our PL enemies like that.

Where do you get your figures from?
I read it was only the top 6 who are arsed about finishing it.

 

[BlueRockape]

No point playing on the moon. There's less atmosphere there than playing behind closed doors.

Or the swamp

 

[City Man]

What the fuck?!

Goater is right. Which raises another fly in the ointment. So the league somehow restarts and a large proportion of players refuse to participate. So a number of games can't take place because clubs can't field a team. Which shows how potentially shambolic this whole idea is.

Of course it wouldn't come to this. As soon as any plan to restart the game comes forward all the clubs will take soundings from their players as to whether they are willing to play and no doubt some clubs will say they can't field a team. Which presumably will put paid to the madness.

As other people have said at the end of the day it's the players who will take the decision assuming the government doesn't do so.

 

[blue corby]

Simon stone now reporting that a growing number of clubs are open to playing the remaining fixtures behind closed doors if the threat of relegation is removed and play next season with 22 clubs !! What’s the point of playing the remaining games then other that giving the dippers the league ! That really does keep the integrity of the league.

 

[Gray]

If they play behind closed doors, will the players have to fetch the ball themselves when it goes out for a throw-in?

What if one of the shots finishes half way up the stand?

 

[Keeper!]

No people allowed in a stadium, then no football.

There is nothing worse than watching a game in an empty stadium, whatever the level.

 

[nmc]

Simon stone now reporting that a growing number of clubs are open to playing the remaining fixtures behind closed doors if the threat of relegation is removed and play next season with 22 clubs !! What’s the point of playing the remaining games then other that giving the dippers the league ! That really does keep the integrity of the league.

There you have it... whole Agenda is about giving the Dippers the title and United our CL place. What a corrupt farce.