Premier League Games 14/15/16 December

[cleavers]

They’ll use the same one that denied Manchester City Women the title last season. It’s been tried and tested.

So long as we keep winning, we are in the box seat for that now.

However there is no way it will be decided on PPG until liverpool are well out of it, currently they are not. There could feasibly be another shutdown if club cases keep rising, but they've put back the early pandemic restart conditions, which should halt the increase, the next step imho, will be games go behind closed doors again.

 

[cleavers]

Just watching match of the day. Arsenal, Palace and Brighton, empty seats everywhere. Where are the headlines!

Arsenal wasn't a huge number (there are plenty most games), but Brighton was, it looked like a third to a half the tickets sold hadn't turned up.

I think given current rates of infection, and the expected large increase over the next weeks, people will become less inclined to go, its not just being at the game, its how you get there, having been to Brighton away this season, a great number of their fans travel by public transport (trains mostly), and I think people will start avoiding that again.

 

[Stoned Rose]

That’s a nailed on peno in the Arsenal game. Not sure where the ‘awful decision’ views are coming from. Is there a bit of peno hysteria going on at the moment?

Never a penalty.

Gets ball first.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Exactly.
Then the cheeky bastards will turn up at our place and question our support.
We do have empty seats in some games, but so does everyone else.
The scum cup games are the best where the camera never goes above the first tier, even when the ball goes high in the air they just let it go off screen, only to be spoiled later by a corner and you clock all the empty seats in the top tiers : )

Brighton chasing an equaliser late into the game at home - most had left. Not a word.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Exactly.
Then the cheeky bastards will turn up at our place and question our support.
We do have empty seats in some games, but so does everyone else.
The scum cup games are the best where the camera never goes above the first tier, even when the ball goes high in the air they just let it go off screen, only to be spoiled later by a corner and you clock all the empty seats in the top tiers : )

It's a ridiculous situation started as a rag joke and now the media going to silly lengths of concealing or ignoring lower attendances generally to maintain a past its sell by joke against City. And only City.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

If a team like Arsenal are now in top four (I know — it won't last) it just demonstrates what a huge gulf there is between top three and the rest.

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

It's a ridiculous situation started as a rag joke and now the media going to silly lengths of concealing or ignoring lower attendances generally to maintain a past its sell by joke against City.

I noticed the armchair Rags and media stopped joking about empty seats when their team had a downturn of results under Golum and started piping up again when Ragnick started eeking out wins.

 

[waspish]

Brentford what all fixtures postponed this weekend they have 13 staff/players with Covid. Premier won’t cancel any games that have a team to put out because they’ll lose money.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Brentford what all fixtures postponed this weekend they have 13 staff/players with Covid. Premier won’t cancel any games that have a team to put out because they’ll lose money.

I still feel its just a matter of time before they have to postpone games

 

[waspish]

I still feel its just a matter of time before they have to postpone games

Think premier will just keep playing the games unless a team can’t because of Covid.