Club Statement: Coronavirus

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monty said:
It is my understanding that the title has to be won mathematically, it hasn't been. You may think it's unfair but as they relished the fact that we got barred from Europe for 5 years and we were totally innocent, tough, what goes around comes around.
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Don't you think , at a time where society has essentially been levelled by a background-agnostic disease, we should show a bit of flexibility?

They've clearly won it. Let's be the better people here.
 
Keiran said:
Well it's a delay of 3 months. You could gradually move the seasons back 1 month per year and the maximum timeframe for a return to an Aug-May season would be 3 years. It's not rocket science and it's something that absolutely could be accomodated.

Your 2nd point, any decision the Prem takes will be advised by UEFA too and, more than likely, mirrored with other leagues, I'd be very surprised if that wasn't the case.

To your 3rd point, why is it so important that the league season runs Aug-May? If all European leagues were happy with an Oct-Jul season, what would be the consequence of that?
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Obviously it could happen, but there are a number of barriers. Broadcasters may well want things to remain the same. Fans definitely will. Football fans are notoriously resistant to change, and changing the start and end of the season would be almost sacrilegious to many. Contracts would be an issue too. Player contracts tend to run until June, you’d potentially end up with a load of players making free transfers for the final month of the season, it’d be carnage.
 
Lanolin said:
Obviously it could happen, but there are a number of barriers. Broadcasters may well want things to remain the same. Fans definitely will. Football fans are notoriously resistant to change, and changing the start and end of the season would be almost sacrilegious to many. Contracts would be an issue too. Player contracts tend to run until June, you’d potentially end up with a load of players making free transfers for the final month of the season, it’d be carnage.
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Not so.

Firstly, broadcasters typically won't care when games are played as long as they get their full 38-game season and their full quota that they've pre-sold to their viewers.

Secondly, If the seasons are adjusted, the transfer windows would too. If you look at players contracts ending on the 1st July, assuming this potentially delayed season would still be running then, there would be no point in those players leaving the clubs because they would have no other clubs to go to. Why would Willian choose to leave Chelsea with 4 or 5 games remaining when he couldn't go to another club until the transfer window opened anyway, he'd be forfeiting cash and be forced to train alone until the new window opened.

It would be a very simple exercise, probably led by the PFA, to extend contracts for the short-term under extenuating circumstances. Clubs up and down the country do 3 and 6 month contracts with players all the time.

So it really only boils down to traditionalists wanting to stick to Aug-May without good reason. You say that Football fans are 'notoriously resistant to change' and yet we largely accepted goal-line technology, female officials, changes to kick-off, changes to offside rules and now VAR. For those that haven't accepted it, they've been power-less to stop any of that anyway.

Times change and Football will adapt.
 
Sadly we all know the FA will be grinning ear to ear as they award the Kopites the title once the season is void.

Believe me better to finish the season behind closed doors and get it over with otherwise the alternative is a 22 team league from August which will be a farce of a season
 

Keiran said:
Not so.

Firstly, broadcasters typically won't care when games are played as long as they get their full 38-game season and their full quota that they've pre-sold to their viewers. If the seasons are adjusted, the transfer windows would too.

If you look at players contracts ending on the 1st July, assuming the season would still be running then, there would be no point in those players leaving the clubs because they would have no other clubs to go to.

It would be a very simple exercise, probably led by the PFA, to extend contracts for the short-term under extenuating circumstances. Clubs up and down the country do 3 and 6 month contracts with players all the time.

So it really only boils down to traditionalists wanting to stick to Aug-May without good reason. You say that Football fans are 'notoriously resistant to change' and yet we largely accepted goal-line technology, female officials, changes to kick-off, changes to offside rules and now VAR. For those that haven't accepted it, they've been power-less to stop any of that anyway.

Times change and Football will adapt.
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You’re very wrong about broadcasters at least. That’s my area of expertise so I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt. People stay in in the winter, they go out in the summer. Broadcasters don’t want their biggest games being played in the middle of july when people are on holiday and on days out.
 

Steve Wigan said:
For Gods sake the lot of you! NONE OF THIS MATTERS! People are dying, and many more are going to die. Who cares about league tables and the like? Are people just arguing about this to take their minds off reality?
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Probably yes mate.

We know and they know its not important in the grand scheme of things but this keeps people feeling normal and not have to think about impending sickness and death.
 

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