When you say integrity do you mean that the very existence of some football clubs is in question? If not, consider that.
It's likely that if football does not restart some football cl
So when Rick Parry suggests a number of football clubs will go out of business you think he's joking?
tbh I don't know the scale of the financial liabilities facing football but few of you seem to be taking this into account.
Forget Liverpool. They are going to get the title anyway. Consider the potential impact on football of losing a huge slive of last years broadcasting revenue and next season's match-day revenue. How many clubs is that going to take out?
This is where the FA need to step in to make sure that this doesn't happen if at all possible. They will have to look at spreading the money in the game around a lot more fairly, even if that is in the short term until things settle down or we work out what the new normal is.
Realistically though, finishing or voiding this season may not have too much of an impact on this, the biggest issue is going to be whether or not people can attend matches next season or not. This is where the majority of lower league clubs get their money from, it's not as if Macclesfield Town are getting huge payments for Sky as they're on TV every weekend.
This should give the FA a huge push to have a good look at the disparity in football finances to ensure some sense of fairness and to help protect smaller clubs who aren't bankrolled by Sky. It probably won't though.
I don't see how playing Premier League games behind closed doors at neutral venues with 30 minute halves is going to help prevent Stockport County from going bust. I haven't been following this closely but in not sure if this whole 'integrity of the season' stuff is just for the Premier League or for every team in England, if it's just for the Premiership why isn't the 'integrity' of League 2 as important?
To me it would seem better for all clubs, not just a couple of Premier League ones but throughout the football pyramid, to just call this season a dud and put all our energy into making sure that next season starts in as safe and timely fashion as possible.
The fact is that plenty of businesses are going to disappear because of this virus and I'm not sure why the government and all the other entities involved need to put football ahead of any other business at this point, if football can change it's rules and regulations to get up and running again then why can't other businesses? It's not as if your local independent pub, hairdressers, butchers or whatever have the backing of worldwide billion dollar media companies, billionaire owners or powerful and rich governing bodies. It's time all the money in football was used to look after the game of football itself and not just the interests of the G14 clubs.
That would do more for 'the integrity of the game' than any ridiculous neutral venues, 30 minute half, get the Premier League concluded pile of shite 'festival of football'.