Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[mosssideblue]

The lockdowns are being lifted, and football is part of that.

The question of whether fans will have any interest in watching it on TV if there's no relegation is another one but I have no moral objection to football discussing returning when we're also discussing the return of schools, trains and work in general.

You rate the backbone of our infrastructure as being on par with the entertainment business. Sorry Marv, I think you are so far from reality on this issue of priorities in trying to get the country back to running as best we can

 

[give it to gordon]

The thing I find hard to understand if it's ok for football to be played why isnt ok to visit my mates and sit in a pub

 

[Bazzmand Show]

The thing I find hard to understand if it's ok for football to be played why isnt ok to visit my mates and sit in a pub

While I dom't agree with football coming back, the above comparison is not really relevant. Football players will be being tested consistently every 2-3 days and in strict locked quarantine before and after matches.

Do you want to be tested every 48 hours, or every time you leave the house?

 

[give it to gordon]

While I dom't agree with football coming back, the above comparison is not really relevant. Football players will be being tested consistently every 2-3 days and in strict locked quarantine before and after matches.

Do you want to be tested every 48 hours, or every time you leave the house?

No I dont but if you need to do all that just to get 22 blokes kicking a ball around it's wrong.
Not sure I like football anymore

I have been working all thought the lockdown but no one has ever tested me we just take pot luck and pray

 

[Dubai Blue]

It is still ridiculous to expect the rest of the country to stay locked up and keeping safe distances to prevent escalation, but it is OK for footie to have different rules applied. I can see public outcry if rules are relaxed for what is not essential tasks

Exactly. I know people over here who run amateur sports facilities – five-a-side pitches, tennis courts, swimming pools, basketball, volleyball, etc. They're on the verge of financial ruin and don't have billionaire benefactors to call on. There'll be many small sports businesses in the UK just like that who are also staring into financial oblivion.

So why is the Premier League such a special case? They should be allowed to start playing sport again once it's deemed safe for everyone else to do so. Anything other than that makes a mockery of the situation and sticks two massive fingers up to the rest of the sports industry. It'd be the equivalent of saying Tesco is allowed to open, but your local greengrocers isn't.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

The thing I find hard to understand if it's ok for football to be played why isnt ok to visit my mates and sit in a pub

There is a big misunderstanding around how the virus spreads. The biggest likely cause of spreading is via contacting surfaces with your hands. It works something like > infected person coughs / sneezes into hand > hand touches surface > uninfected person touches surface with hand then transfers to their face. Actually breathing it in is likely pretty rare. This is why washing your hands is the N1 thing and far more important than wearing a mask. And the Mask doesn't stop you breathing it in, it stops the infected person breathing it out (breathing alone is also low risk, coughing and sneezing produces the kind of liquid droplets it needs).

So pubs with all the surfaces and the enclosed space are very high risk, a football ground is pretty low risk as you don't touch that many surfaces.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Exactly. I know people over here who run amateur sports facilities – five-a-side pitches, tennis courts, swimming pools, basketball, volleyball, etc. They're on the verge of financial ruin and don't have billionaire benefactors to call on. There'll be many small sports businesses in the UK just like that who are also staring into financial oblivion.

So why is the Premier League such a special case? They should be allowed to start playing sport again once it's deemed safe for everyone else to do so. Anything other than that makes a mockery of the situation and sticks two massive fingers up to the rest of the sports industry. It'd be the equivalent of saying Tesco is allowed to open, but your local greengrocers isn't.

I think you will find the gambling industry has the ear of the government and sport will return very quickly in the same way that Cheltenham went ahead.

 

[Marvin]

You rate the backbone of our infrastructure as being on par with the entertainment business. Sorry Marv, I think you are so far from reality on this issue of priorities in trying to get the country back to running as best we can

I don't claim they are key workers, but I have no moral objection to talk of re-starting the Premier League on June 12th.

 

[waspish]

While I dom't agree with football coming back, the above comparison is not really relevant. Football players will be being tested consistently every 2-3 days and in strict locked quarantine before and after matches.

Do you want to be tested every 48 hours, or every time you leave the house?

Tests can’t be trusted they are around 70% accurate would you trust your life on that %

 

[Marvin]

So the following will protect the integrity of the league;

Removing home advantage
Removing fans
Removing any reason for anyone under the top 10 to try
Removing VAR (supposedly)

The only issue with that is these things were all present for basically the entire season; and particularly with number 3 it changes the entire complex of the game and basically removes reason for teams to actually try.
Removing them/changing things at this stage nulls any future results as they are not the same competition.

As @Newman Noggs intelligently mentioned; what they should do to actually maintain the “integrity” that seems to be so important, is to null it all, and concentrate on starting next year on schedule and as smoothly as possible.
Instead they’re going to completely fuck up two season, cup games and European competitions just to finish this one.

They say city are the only club run with blood money. But if anyone suffers from this, every club in the league will be running on blood money

Fucking madness.

Football without relegation is madness but so is football without football clubs. There is a financial axe hanging over football that many of you are ignoring. Why would the Premier League even consider suspending relegation if not because there is a level of desperation?