Cancelling this season's Premier League

[Gwladysstreetlad]

So basically the idea is to horde about 500 plus people including players, (both first team and sqauds), management teams, ref teams, camera crews, commentary teams, security staff and medical professionals (who're already worked to the bone without this laughable nonsense!) in some "hidden location" for two weeks and hoping that nobody will clock where it is and send hundreds of idiot fans (from all clubs, but some are certain to send far more them others!) to stand by the "ground" while the games are being played!

Now let's ignore the fact that this would blatantly flout social distancing rules for hundreds to possibly thousands of people and be shut down immediately by the government the second it was suggested. Lets ignore all that, I'd actually love to see the football authorities try to convince hundreds of multi-millionaire football players and managers that they have to endanger themselves and their families all to play the remaining games just so the RS can lift the league!

The stink of desperation coming Klanfield right now is nauseating!

 

[daza_1973]

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So basically the idea is to horde about 500 plus people including players, (both first team and sqauds), management teams, ref teams, camera crews, commentary teams, security staff and medical professionals (who're already worked to the bone without this laughable nonsense!) in some "hidden location" for two weeks and hoping that nobody will clock where it is and send hundreds of idiot fans (from all clubs, but some are certain to send far more them others!) to stand by the "ground" while the games are being played!

Now let's ignore the fact that this would blatantly flout social distancing rules for hundreds to possibly thousands of people and be shut down immediately by the government the second it was suggested. Lets ignore all that, I'd actually love to see the football authorities try to convince hundreds of multi-millionaire football players and managers that they have to endanger themselves and their families all to play the remaining games just so the RS can lift the league!

The stink of desperation coming Klanfield right now is nauseating!

It's been done before

 

[Tubey]

One of the funniest suggestions so far that. The Kopite desperation is palpable.

 

[Sharpies volley]

Nearly April Fools lads. Watch out for a lot more

 

[The binman chronicles]

If you can't finish the season as intended, I.e. playing each team home and away at their proper grounds in front of fans - then it isn't the competition that everyone signed up to at the start and should be cancelled. This is not difficult.

It might even be ok to play a handful of fixtures behind closed doors if for safety sake in an emergency it's required, but there is still nearly a quarter of a season to play! Too much rides on this to ram all the games into a short period playing at a neutral ground when the away team had the benefits during the reverse fixture.

Even I feel a bit sorry for them lot, especially Klopp who by building that team deserves to win a league to show for it. Afterall this is the sort of thing that happens to us, however you can't just manufacture a title and by playing at a neutral venue would actively help them get over the line. No hostility from the away games, less pressure of not having to play in front of your own fans, where the nervousness can transmit to the players.

In sport the final push is often the hardest, you see it in tennis when serving for the championship what had been relatively easy up to that point becomes a ball ache as the nerves set in. I'm not saying they wouldn't win it anyhow, likelihood City would drop the points meaning the RS could get away with not picking up another point. But sport sometimes throws up these miracles, that is what we love and no one should interfere with it.

 

[Archie Knox]

Agree with the above. How on earth can you finish a season with a quarter of it played at a neutral venue or behind closed doors? What happens to the teams at the bottom if they've just happened to play the top teams away and have them still to play at home? How can you just rip that home advantage from them and just say "tough, get on with it".

What needs to happen is for one of the European leagues to become null and void, and then hopefully others follow suit, or for one of the Premier League clubs to simply refuse to play due to the Covid-19 situation; no way at all the FA is going to punish them and force them to play in spite of their health concerns, especially when thousands of people are dying up and down the country.

I don't mind Liverpool ending up champions if the season is somehow played out fairly, but I just don't see how that can happen. And unless all 38 games are played, regardless of any "mathematical win" for them, then nobody is champion and nobody is relegated.

Easiest I suppose would be if the government intervened and banned all forms of competitive sport due to lack of emergency services for the rest of the year.

 

[navidson]

Pipe down Gundogan you knob

 

[daza_1973]

Apparently Premier league chiefs have made concessions for any scenario where they are pressured into awarding the premiership trophy to the RS via a quick trophy redesign.....

 

[aazak]

Wimbledon organisers will announce the cancellation of the grasscourt major on Wednesday due to the coronavirus pandemic, German Tennis Federation vice-president Dirk Hordorff has told Sky Sports.

All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) officials earlier said the tournament, which is due to start on 29 June, would not be played behind closed doors and postponement was not without significant risk and difficulty.

 

[Wayno]

Wimbledon organisers will announce the cancellation of the grasscourt major on Wednesday due to the coronavirus pandemic, German Tennis Federation vice-president Dirk Hordorff has told Sky Sports.

All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) officials earlier said the tournament, which is due to start on 29 June, would not be played behind closed doors and postponement was not without significant risk and difficulty.

Another nail in the coffin of the football that , big time.

 

[Archie Knox]

Pipe down Gundogan you knob

Utter bone head, him, saying that.

 

[4737carlin]

Another nail in the coffin of the football that , big time.

Yeah the more things that go, the easier and more likely the PL will follow.
I read Major League Baseball are going to pull the whole season, which should start this week.

 

[Yarrgh]

Yeah the more things that go, the easier and more likely the PL will follow.
I read Major League Baseball are going to pull the whole season, which should start this week.

Be interesting to see John W Henry's take on the health and safety of people in America if that happens. I hope he has the same attitude to people in the UK.

 

[coollino]

We're not coming out of lockdown until the Autumn at the earliest. This season will be written off, no doubt about it.

Even if the RS are awarded the league, no one will recognise it and it will always have that asterisk next to their name, which is just humiliating. LOL.

Either that or they win it in Birmingham with no one there. That wouldn't be fair at all though, what is Villa have all of the relegation candidates at home in the next few games? They would lose out on the advantage,

 

[roydo]

Danny Murphy reckons organising an end of season get together in Birmingham, for all the sides refs press, etc etc, all in isolation and in sanitised hotels should be quite easy.

Ok mate.