C-oops
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Yeah but what tests ? Antibody or antigen?
Premier League officially postponed until 17th of June
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Locotoro
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To be honest you the suggestion was shit but I just want all the talk about it to be done, my suggestion is basically aimed at 2 games and done approach. I'm sick of all this "integrity of the sport" bullshit
When it happens behind closed doors, which it will, it will have finally resulted in TV being more important than the match going fan. It will end the record of myself and many others in terms of attendance and to be honest I'm not really sure if I would ever want to to go back after that.
ILS
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The championship is the underlying issue here about restarting the premiership.
If you said to the premier League teams right now, Liverpool win the league and there is no relegation. The team's in the CL and the Europa League spots qualify for that competition. The FA cup winning spot goes to the next place team in the league, I don't think there would much of a grumble if they could come to a compromise with Sky on outstanding monies owed.
The issue is Leeds and WBA and the others as they will be the ones kicking off and threatening legal action but if the Government have the balls to make the decision rather than the league, then I can't see how they have a leg to stand on.
If you said to the premier League teams right now, Liverpool win the league and there is no relegation. The team's in the CL and the Europa League spots qualify for that competition. The FA cup winning spot goes to the next place team in the league, I don't think there would much of a grumble if they could come to a compromise with Sky on outstanding monies owed.
The issue is Leeds and WBA and the others as they will be the ones kicking off and threatening legal action but if the Government have the balls to make the decision rather than the league, then I can't see how they have a leg to stand on.
I’m actually at the point I think all these stories are click bait. They’ve been going on for months not a single one has had any confirmation from the PL. Journalists must be under huge pressure to keep traffic up or fear losing their jobs. The print papers circulation must be down hugely. Which must be a big long term worry because once people’s habits change its likely they may not go back to buying a paper.
SpunkyBackpack
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Do you feel the same way about restaurants that are doing delivery? Are they dead to you as they clearly don't value the people who used to go to the venue for a meal? Do you feel they should wait until they can sit people down to try and get their businesses running?
For goodness sake, teams are haemorrhaging money and you want them to wait a year or more and ignore all other options to get going on the basis that you don't feel prioritised?
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brasil_spur
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I'm amazed that "insert one of the below" are prepared to take the risk with staff health:
B&Q
Greggs
Wizz Air
Taylor Wimpey
Aston Martin
None of the above are "essential" businesses, but they all need to be open and operating in order to survive. And unlike football none of them have on hand medical staff and facilities in their workplaces.
Most PL clubs are far better equipped and financed to ensure better protection if players return, behind closed doors, than most UK businesses.
But you're right it isn't risk free, but unfortunately this seems to be the new "normal" we're all going to be adapting to.
brasil_spur
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But there's a world of difference between the general public and 22 players where numerous precautions and testing has been carried out to ensure they are C-19 free.
My worry is that too many of the general public are stupid and don't understand this and react as you've suggested they might above, but you can't run the world based on the idiots.
brasil_spur
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Welcome to capitalism 101
thebenjamin
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A restart is the only chance we've got of making something of this season, so good news for us if it happens I guess.
thebenjamin
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I hear that Rosie, but there won't be football with fans in the stadium for a long time. At least until next spring. So it's unrealistic to think there won't be BCD football before that happens. It's a matter of life and death for clubs.
Shadydan
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Presumably because they don't want Liverpool to win the league and have got used to the idea of them not lifting the trophy.
ILS
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I agree, that is why it may require government intervention to put a stop to this. I think however the government believe by not allowing it to restart will cause uproar, when apart from specific team's and their fans and the money men, the majority of us would be in favour of ending it.
The next problem is how do you then start up next season knowing their is a high probability of a second wave which is likely to be worse in the winter months?
spursfan77
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There's yet another PL meeting Friday apparently. Let's see what "news" is generated from that.
There is absolutely no news in the clubs opening their training grounds either, it means nothing. They've only done that because its obvious some players don't have gardens to run about in. Ours have been going to local parks. Clubs cant be having that. All that they've done is open the pitches up and its one player to a pitch. The players turn up in their training gear and don't go in the buildings. I've seen this reported for us, West Ham and Arsenal who've let their players us the grass.
vegassd
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You could have written this at any point in the last 10-12 years and it would have been accurate.
The move towards news content delivered on a phone means that stories get tailored towards click bait headlines and easy to digest trash writing. And once the content goes digital it opens up the marketplace which increases competition and in turn increases the sensationalism whilst decreasing the time available to research a story.
Sure, there are a few of the old school reporters still knocking about, but realistically the only requirements for being a "sports journalist" these days are an Internet connection and an imaginary friend called "Sources".
Yid-ol
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I have no issue with it being behind close door. The bit I don't agree with is if they use only 5 or so training grounds/pitches to play on. Think it will be an unfair advantage of teams have more away games, or say if they picked our training ground as one? Can we play there or would we have to use say Chelsea's or travel out of London for the game?
vegassd
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I don't think the home/away advantage thing would be too much of a problem considering there won't be any fans. I personally think that the advantage gained by having time to heal injuries and recover from fatigue (especially for us) will outweigh that.
What seems like more of a complication to me is what they do with the other leagues. If the PL comes to a conclusion and relegates 3 teams that would surely need the Championship to put forward 3 promoted teams and so on down the leagues. It might be easy for PL teams to cater for all these distancing measures because there's a lot of money there, but if the whole system is dependent on League 2 also being able to complete how can that possibly work?
Maybe we will end up seeing the PL play out as a showcase event but have relegation and promotion frozen, so the only thing to play for would be European qualification. It would seemingly solve a bunch of the top-level questions but would definitely feel hollow.
Thewobbler
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Welcome to capitalism 101
I have no problem that hes doing it. I'm sure i read hes paying 300 dollars for each testing( could be wrong), and hes keeping his content going in these times when people need things to keep them entertained and hes testing all his guests which is a great thing.
