Is it shameful what the FA are doing?

Most commentators are saying that social distancing will be with us for a long time. Are the government going to allow the FA and PL to broadcast games even behind closed doors, to allow footballers paid tens of thousands of pounds to flaunt social distancing measures whilst the rest of us have to comply. Is the football business worth more than any other? If football is allowed to flout the rules can I do it to save my business?
 
Look, they really have to keep this going as long as they can and even if the options they come up with are stupid and unrealistic, they have to show they are at least trying. Otherwise there will be lawsuits and bitterness all around, not just from Liverpool. The govt can't tell them to scrap the season because it's nothing to do with them, all they can say is 'you can't play yet' and the rest is up to the league.
 
creditunionhero said:
Most commentators are saying that social distancing will be with us for a long time. Are the government going to allow the FA and PL to broadcast games even behind closed doors, to allow footballers paid tens of thousands of pounds to flaunt social distancing measures whilst the rest of us have to comply. Is the football business worth more than any other? If football is allowed to flout the rules can I do it to save my business?
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This will be up to the government, but they have to be seen as giving options to finish the season. Ultimately if the govt say they can't, then they can't. Lawsuits and fines from clubs/television just won't stand up in court after that IMO.
 
idahoblues said:
However it goes, if the dippers get the title there'll always be a cloud over it...good enough for me.

Yes, I'm that sad
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If that’s being sad, then count me in. We’ve had fuck all but wall-to-wall coverage of all things dipper for the last 100 years - so it seems. Imagine what it’ll be like if they did win it, the combined coverage of Lady Di’s funeral, the Soham murders, and this current virus thing that is causing our media to self combust with excitement, would not topple the dippers from the pages of the tabloids.

For the sake of mankind, they cannot be allowed to win the Prem. Not ever.
 
kenzie115 said:
Why rush the decision? If there's a chance the season can be finished then they should give themselves the opportunity to do so. Makes more sense to finish a season that's 75% complete than to scrap it so a new one can start.

Other major, one off events have been cancelled for a variety of reasons, some because there's no point doing all the prep in the months leading up to it if it won't go ahead, some because there's no wiggle room on their calendar, some because of insurance claims. Football isn't like that, they can afford to wait and see. No point rushing into a decision that we'll look back on and decide was premature.
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I find it utterly bewildering the stick all the football authorities have got from posters on this site, for them having the audacity for trying to protect their business. Everyone keeps saying they are only interested in the money, money grabbing bastards and so on.

In the grand scheme of things, football clubs make next to nothing and their turn overs are quite low. All the money goes on paying the players. I work for a company that is not even in the top 50 in their sector in regards to turnover or profit, yet they turn over and make far more profit than any football club does. My company is still working. Its not essential work and its not exactly safe at the minute is it? No one is whinging at them or giving my company stick. There must be thousands of other companies doing exactly the same but it seems to be football that is copping for all the stick.

It is not just the football clubs themselves at risk, there is a whole network of other industries dependant on football for their survival. People seem to want football clubs to go bump and thousands of people to lose their job just because of some stupid moral crusade.

Why on earth do people not want football back as soon as it is safe to do so? If that means behind closed doors for a bit, then so be it. It has been so disappointing reading blues saying they are going to give up going if we play behind closed doors at some point. What ever happened to sticking by your club through thick and thin? Everyone is having a thin time of it at the minute, we are having to adjust our daily lives and football has to do the same.

I want football back asap, I want my life back asap. At present I am a prisoner in my own home. What I would do for some live football. I don't give a shit if Liverpool win the league, I take absolutely no joy in City remaining champions because a global pandemic has killed thousands of people and denied Liverpool winning it.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The answer is to give the TV companies more games next season, to make up for the ones they've lost this season.
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TV networks were already saturated.... there’s limited scope for more football on tv. I think a lot of us are likely to watch an awful lot less than more - many who’ve suspended Sky won’t be back. Personally the repeated VAR fiascos turned me right off and I thought on a few occasions that I was being mugged off watching a game; where the outcome was being played out in a caravan. If Sky et al have any sense they’d let the PL keep the money for this season and get the value of the annual contract down by 20 per cent and get a couple of years added onto the end of the contract.
 
creditunionhero said:
Most commentators are saying that social distancing will be with us for a long time. Are the government going to allow the FA and PL to broadcast games even behind closed doors, to allow footballers paid tens of thousands of pounds to flaunt social distancing measures whilst the rest of us have to comply. Is the football business worth more than any other? If football is allowed to flout the rules can I do it to save my business?
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Commentators are clueless, from the days of instead and Coleman, Tyler, and Parry, they are all rubbish.
 
No chance of football before a vaccine. 54k at City cannot be justified otherwise is an example. Wemay never watch certain players again. Don't want to be pessimistic but that is my view
 
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