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Which is fairer? Coronavirus implications

mil1lion

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Imagine they write off the season, add a year to everyones contract and make Eriksen come back for another year. I would love to see his little face.
 

Led's Zeppelin

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May 28, 2013
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Do you think we will get a refund on sports subscription services!

I expect Sky TV to make an announcement in the next few days.

I spoke to someone at Sky Sports today who said that recognise that they have to find a way to recompense us for the fact that we are paying for live sports coverage and they don’t have any to show us, and before they lose too many customers altogether.

Ive already cancelled my BT Sports subscription.
 
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John48

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I expect Sky TV to make an announcement in the next few days.

I spoke to someone at Sky Sports today who said that recognise that they have to find a way to recompense us for the fact that we are paying for live sports coverage and they don’t have any to show us, and before they lose too many customers altogether.

Ive already cancelled my BT Sports subscription.

Well if it continues as it has been you won't need it next season anyway.
 

mil1lion

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I can't imagine it will drag on that long. You can only delay for so long. They just need to try and stagger out people getting it. It's likely to become an annual version of the flu anyway. People need to catch it and recover from it so they're better for it next time. Also big crowds are not the highest risk, those are more smaller social circles and spaces so cancelling football matches seems a bit drastic. I think they should get back to it from the 4th and if they decide to push back Euro 2020 to 2021 add a few weeks to the end of the season. People will cope a lot better in the summer and we'll be back ready in August. People will still catch it then and beyond but we still need to get on with things.
 

TheChosenOne

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Of course a precedent for suspending the League was set in 1915. When football resumed in 1919 promotion and relegation issues were settled in a way that resulted in no lasting grievances. None whatsoever. The ****s.

I assume you refer to Henry Norris, the slag.
 

Spurslove

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I assume you refer to Henry Norris, the slag.

In my occasional moments of fantasy, I rather wish Henry Norris could have met up with a modern day Sir Henry Percy, the Duke of Northumberland (one of our past heroes), who would have ripped his heart out and probably eaten it.

:)

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Spurslove

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I wonder if anyone else is worried about the futures of some the country's smaller clubs from the lower divisions with the entire EFL being postponed for at least a few weeks. These tiny clubs rely predominantly on their turnstile money on a match to match basis, and are the very lifeblood of our game for communities all over the country.

I think it would be desperately sad to see any of these clubs go to the wall as a result of their league programmes being suspended for whatever period.

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Spurslove

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This season hasnt happened - so everything as of end of last season remains. We go into CL and Man Shitty retain their league champions status

I can see that going down really well at Anfield (and Old Trafford).

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Yid-ol

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Jan 16, 2006
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I wonder if anyone else is worried about the futures of some the country's smaller clubs from the lower divisions with the entire EFL being postponed for at least a few weeks. These tiny clubs rely predominantly on their turnstile money on a match to match basis, and are the very lifeblood of our game for communities all over the country.

I think it would be desperately sad to see any of these clubs go to the wall as a result of their league programmes being suspended for whatever period.

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Yeah, I can see a few club's going under due to this. Even with loss of revenue, I wonder how prize money will get split? How the table is or evenly split ?
 

nailsy

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Jul 24, 2005
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I can't imagine it will drag on that long. You can only delay for so long. They just need to try and stagger out people getting it. It's likely to become an annual version of the flu anyway. People need to catch it and recover from it so they're better for it next time. Also big crowds are not the highest risk, those are more smaller social circles and spaces so cancelling football matches seems a bit drastic. I think they should get back to it from the 4th and if they decide to push back Euro 2020 to 2021 add a few weeks to the end of the season. People will cope a lot better in the summer and we'll be back ready in August. People will still catch it then and beyond but we still need to get on with things.

This isn't going to peak in this country for about ten weeks. There's no way that they should be letting people into stadiums while this is ongoing. And players are going to keep getting sick and need to self isolate.
 

Thewobbler

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Cancel season, places are final but no relegation. Top 2 teams from each division come up. Cancel the league cup, pointless midweek internationals and johnstones paint trophy next season to play extra league games. 5 teams go down and then we get back to normal, if we ever get back to normal.

Or I took this from rawk, which isnt a bad idea:

"Calendar seasons to then run into the World Cup dec 2022 is actually perfect. Finish this season in August/September. Start new one in jan"
 
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For the love of Spurs

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You can’t give Liverpool the title without relegating and promoting teams in the respective spots, can’t have one rule for one club and then change it for others. Either the season is void or we complete it in a few months (if we can play in a few months).
 

Trotter

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I wonder if anyone else is worried about the futures of some the country's smaller clubs from the lower divisions with the entire EFL being postponed for at least a few weeks. These tiny clubs rely predominantly on their turnstile money on a match to match basis, and are the very lifeblood of our game for communities all over the country.

I think it would be desperately sad to see any of these clubs go to the wall as a result of their league programmes being suspended for whatever period.

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Government announced a fund to help out these sort of scenarios in the budget this week.
I am sure the clubs that rely on the gate money rather than TV money will be given some form of handout to enable them to survive.
 

Stavrogin

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I wonder if anyone else is worried about the futures of some the country's smaller clubs from the lower divisions with the entire EFL being postponed for at least a few weeks. These tiny clubs rely predominantly on their turnstile money on a match to match basis, and are the very lifeblood of our game for communities all over the country.

I think it would be desperately sad to see any of these clubs go to the wall as a result of their league programmes being suspended for whatever period.

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There are solutions.

If it's unthinkable to leave the season unfinished, they can get to a stage where they can play the matches behind closed doors and set up a streaming service for each match.

Competitions can be finished, revenue streams would continue. etc.

If an unfinished season really is a epochal catastrophe then they'd surely do this. Would the extend it to smalller clubs? I'm sure they would.
 

lis spur

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Dec 7, 2006
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I expect Sky TV to make an announcement in the next few days.

I spoke to someone at Sky Sports today who said that recognise that they have to find a way to recompense us for the fact that we are paying for live sports coverage and they don’t have any to show us, and before they lose too many customers altogether.

Ive already cancelled my BT Sports subscription.
I emailed and ask to to have the movie package gratis or i will unsubscribe,see what happens.
 

Yid-ol

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Jan 16, 2006
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Cancel season, places are final but no relegation. Top 2 teams from each division come up. Cancel the league cup, pointless midweek internationals and johnstones paint trophy next season to play extra league games. 5 teams go down and then we get back to normal, if we ever get back to normal.

Or I took this from rawk, which isnt a bad idea:

"Calendar seasons to then run into the World Cup dec 2022 is actually perfect. Finish this season in August/September. Start new one in jan"

So cancel cup games that bring revenue for smaller club's, remove club's (Less games) from the bottom tear league.... Yeah can't see that happening as would put more club's in danger of going broke.
 
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