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catcherintherye said:
Can you honestly imagine that discussion with the broadcaster? "Yea errm, you know that exclusivity thing that you've built your business on, thats gone".

I'm also hearing Germany may go back in to lockdown, which would really put the Kabosh on the whole plan, as that seemed to be the moral justification for this.
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Just my personal opinion but with the way things currently are in Germany I just find it hard to imagine football taking place in May, even behind closed doors.
 
catcherintherye said:
Can you honestly imagine that discussion with the broadcaster? "Yea errm, you know that exclusivity thing that you've built your business on, thats gone".

I'm also hearing Germany may go back in to lockdown, which would really put the Kabosh on the whole plan, as that seemed to be the moral justification for this.
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From what I gather Germany relaxed restrictions because their contagion number was well below the magic 1.0 at
0.70.
A couple of days into low restrictions and its back up to 0.93.
If it goes up, all the restrictions will go back on and its good bye footie again...for a long time.
 
sbbefc said:
They can only start thinking about this when numbers of deaths have fallen to single figures. We're way off that. Football is and never will be essential work, if anything it's right at the bottom of the list.
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Kiss goodbye to any footy forever then. Even with a Flu vaccine we don't have single figure deaths..
 
Billy Dean said:
Just my personal opinion but with the way things currently are in Germany I just find it hard to imagine football taking place in May, even behind closed doors.
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And if Germany are not re-starting, you feel the glimmer of hope is gone. I know this government is reckless, but this would be insane after Cheltenham if they made the same mistake again.
 

degsy said:
From what I gather Germany relaxed restrictions because their contagion number was well below the magic 1.0 at
0.70.
A couple of days into low restrictions and its back up to 0.93.
If it goes up, all the restrictions will go back on and its good bye footie again...for a long time.
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Merkel and Germany have a sensible government. I think they are going back to lockdown, and even if they don't I can't see Merkel giving it the go ahead for a couple of weeks.
 
arminisgod said:
Kiss goodbye to any footy forever then. Even with a Flu vaccine we don't have single figure deaths..
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Obviously, deaths in connection with this highly contagious respiratory disease. 20-40 thousand people have died from it in the space of 1/2 months. You cant compare it to seasonal flu that kills, on average 17,000 a year, of those, the vast majority are very elderly.
 

Saint Domingo said:
It’s the sensationalist language around if ‘PL will lose a billion if season doesn’t finish’. What’s probably closer to the truth is ‘PL won’t earn extra billion quid that it wouldn’t need if every club wasn’t spending right on its limit and had actually put aside even a minuscule % of its earnings for a rainy day at any point over the last two decades of uninterrupted huge growth’
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Well said, Dom.

The simple solution is for the EPL and the TV companies to extend the current contract by the length of time the game is in limbo.

Undoubtedly this is what will happen as both parties are locked in a symbiotic relationship and neither is going to go to war over the issue of who pays back what to whom due to what our religious friends, and the insurance companies, might call an “Act of God”.

So as you say, no money already in the coffers will be handed back or “lost” as such....just the tap on the money fountain will be turned off until we are up and running again.

And commonsense dictates this ill starred season is just abandoned here and now so everyone can focus on planning the resumption of the game when it is safe to do so.

ATM this “we must complete a season that died six weeks ago” nonsense is hanging over the game like the Sword of Damocles.

There is a paralysis which is totally stymying the ability of the powers that be in the English game to plan for football in a post COVID world.

And nowt will convince me that it is not the malign influence of a certain club and the meejah whores whom dance to its tune that is the main stumbling block to swift and decisive action being taken.
 
catcherintherye said:
The truth is, when the enquiry comes (and there will be an enquiry when the dust settles on this) you don't want to be called to have to justify your actions under oath. I don't know if it will end up at the criminal manslaughter level, but this will end up with very severe recriminations. Those championing a return will struggle to justify it down the line.

I hope every Liverpool fan who is doing so, and made to face victims families and made to explain why their entitlement to try and win a pointless, none essential game was more important than their loved ones lives? Funnily enough, I don't think many would be volunteering to shout their mouths off then would they?
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they will just blame everyone else as usual
 

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