Cancelling this season's Premier League

[scratchnsurf]

The Belgian Pro League board has proposed the immediate conclusion of the country's football season, per
@HLN_BE
. It would make Belgium the first European country to officially end its top-flight season, and crown Club Brugge champions.

I think we should follow their example and crown Club Brugge champions as well.

 

[chrismpw]

Brescia owner has said they’ll forfeit rest of Serie A games if forced to play. The powers that be in football are starting to really sour public opinion of them. The clubs laying staff off before cutting player an exec wages hasn’t gone down well, neither has the constant proposals on how games could still be carried out. Other sports with far less money swilling around have just made sensible decisive moves to cancel events even as far out as July, whereas football keeps going on about coming back in May or June. Football isn’t important at a time like this but it feels as though this will be a moment of reckoning for it with the public starting to see the horrific greed of these teams. Might be easy to overlook when times are good but if we carry on with this health crisis and a financial one follows then the normal football fan in this country will not want to see players being paid 200k a week or being bought for 150 million if there’s no jobs and the economy is in pieces.

Boycott subscription sports tv.

Get that movement growing and it will be fans at the turnstiles, not tv companies back in control. The pantomime is binned and we get our sport back.

Hopefully the bbc showing matches from 20+ years ago will demonstrate to the public just how exciting footie used to be without the diving and histrionics.

 

[PaulPowersTash]

Boycott subscription sports tv.

Get that movement growing and it will be fans at the turnstiles, not tv companies back in control. The pantomime is binned and we get our sport back.

Hopefully the bbc showing matches from 20+ years ago will demonstrate to the public just how exciting footie used to be without the diving and histrionics.

I watched a Man City v Spurs game from 1968 the other day. What a different world that was and not all bad.
The crowd was amazing and the skill and passing from the players was right up there also. Football really was
enjoyed then. Now a lot of us attend and watch games due to habit and a strange misguided loyalty. This crisis may just
change things for the better. I'm not holding my breath but I am hoping...

 

[Yid4life]

I watched a Man City v Spurs game from 1968 the other day. What a different world that was and not all bad.
The crowd was amazing and the skill and passing from the players was right up there also. Football really was
enjoyed then. Now a lot of us attend and watch games due to habit and a strange misguided loyalty. This crisis may just
change things for the better. I'm not holding my breath but I am hoping...

Lets hope so.

Please give us £1k for your ST & pay £100 a month for subscription TV so we can pay players £200k pw & let them watch the mugs that pay their salaries take pay cuts, lose their jobs & struggle to put food on the table. And then, expect everything to return to normal afterwards.....

 

[Jamiednm]

The Belgian Pro League board has proposed the immediate conclusion of the country's football season, per
@HLN_BE
. It would make Belgium the first European country to officially end its top-flight season, and crown Club Brugge champions.

Brugge had already won it, apparently. No problem with that.

The difference with the Prem is that no team has won it, so it can't be automatically awarded.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

This is a club who first denied Suarez racially abused Evra. then claimed it was a cultural misunderstand, then went round with stupid T shirts like bellends, then Dogleash tried to defend Suarez not shaking hands with Evra. They also tried to sue a amateur football club, tried to copyright a chant that wasn't even started by their fans, they have no shame.

And to trademark the name of the city they reside in

 

[LostLegend]

I hope they just give them it now tbh, just to shut them up. Let them have their tainted title with the [*] next to it.

Because you know they'll just go and win it next season and I can already hear Martin Tyler screaming "Justice is finally done" when they lift it.
And I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit....

 

[Jamiednm]

I'd like to see the legal justification that would have to be released for Liverpool to be awarded the league title without actually mathematically winning it. Even being extremely charitable to them, it's not like they're just one win away from securing the title.

Some sports have actual rules that cover such eventualities - i.e. - if a F1 GP doesn't got the full distance, the leading driver is still awarded full points and the win if 75% of the race's completed. No such rule exists in the Premier League. Therefore there is no legal justification to award Liverpool the league.

And why would the team in first place be awarded the title, but the 3 relegation zone dwellers not relegated? It has to be consistent across the board otherwise it is totally unfair. It would also have a knock-on effect to the rest of the professional football league system. Would Leeds be automatically crowded Champions of the EFL Championship - and if they were, how would they be promoted if no one from the PL is relegated?

 

[MikeH72]

I hope they just give them it now tbh, just to shut them up. Let them have their tainted title with the [*] next to it.

Because you know they'll just go and win it next season and I can already hear Martin Tyler screaming "Justice is finally done" when they lift it.
And I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit....

If that happens, you watch certain posters on here suddenly go quiet about finishing the season.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

The Belgian Pro League board has proposed the immediate conclusion of the country's football season, per
@HLN_BE
. It would make Belgium the first European country to officially end its top-flight season, and crown Club Brugge champions.

Then it cant be official, cos the Belgian FA will always crown Anderlecht champions given the choice, not those wannabe kopite farmers.

 

[d34noj]

The Belgian Pro League board has proposed the immediate conclusion of the country's football season, per
@HLN_BE
. It would make Belgium the first European country to officially end its top-flight season, and crown Club Brugge champions.

To be fair, theres 1 game left and they were 15 points clear so calm down Kopites.

 

[4737carlin]

I was more English club would come out and say let's void to.protect lives.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

To be fair, theres 1 game left and they were 15 points clear so calm down Kopites.

They have a 6 week playoffs to decide the champion here

 

[catcherintherye]

The thing with Belgium is, they have declared anyone who has mathematically won something as having a trophy of sorts, but wherever there was a mathematical possibly of an event occurring, it was voided. I suspect that will be the same approach adopted in every country.

 

[Nymzee]

The thing with Belgium is, they have declared anyone who has mathematically won something as having a trophy of sorts, but wherever there was a mathematical possibly of an event occurring, it was voided. I suspect that will be the same approach adopted in every country.

Club Brugge weren't guaranteed the title.