Cancelling this season's Premier League

[JelavicBrate2]

The Orangemen have cancelled July 12th lol

If the KKK cancel their parade RAWK won't be able to cope.

 

[Yarrgh]

Indeed.

This is the strange thing for me.

I honestly couldn care if it never came back.

The lifelong spell it held on me has been broken.

And that makes me very sad

The spell isn't broken for me yet. But I do hope that when it does come back, the worst of its excesses have been curbed. It's just a game and it actually doesn't mean more.

 

[No8Bally]

Couldn't happen to a nicer organisation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52191973

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Couldn't happen to a nicer organisation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52191973

 

[brigadier]

Leagues free to decide whether to use new handball law when season resumes

Leagues will be able to choose whether to use the new handball law when the season resumes, football's lawmaking body says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Surely they couldn't change the rules mid season?

Changed them game from game depending on which team it is.

 

[daza_1973]

Indeed.

This is the strange thing for me.

I honestly couldn care if it never came back.

The lifelong spell it held on me has been broken.

And that makes me very sad

Wholeheartedly agree with this.
Many had predicted the premiership bubble would burst at some point due to over expansion and greed, no one ever could have foreseen this.
VAR firstly had it on the ropes and covid19 has provided the TKO.
Modern football culture has become a poisonous mixture of self interest, greed and entitlement and it's been laid bare for all to see.

 

[daza_1973]

Leagues free to decide whether to use new handball law when season resumes

Leagues will be able to choose whether to use the new handball law when the season resumes, football's lawmaking body says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Surely they couldn't change the rules mid season?

Penalty to liVARpool.

 

[Jamiednm]

Wholeheartedly agree with this.
Many had predicted the premiership bubble would burst at some point due to over expansion and greed, no one ever could have foreseen this.
VAR firstly had it on the ropes and covid19 has provided the TKO.
Modern football culture has become a poisonous mixture of self interest, greed and entitlement and it's been laid bare for all to see.

I think this has to go on for a long time to come still for it to make any real difference to football.

If things returned to some level of normalcy in say, a month, people will be eager to get back to life as normal, will be consuming product and selfishly going about their business as usual.

It will take a significant time period of at least 3 months of this, combined with the human tragedy getting hammered home on a daily basis for 'modern' football in particular to suffer a backlash.

 

[Jamiednm]

i just cant see the season resuming unless there is a vaccine in place which could be months away

scientists are now saying those who have been infected with covid-19 have been re-infected again due to dormant cells or something

how can any player / fan be 100% confident that they don't risk getting the disease if they attend a game of football

at Goodison there will be at least 40,000 fans and you are telling me all of them will be free of infection without a vaccine? no chance

what if a footballer refuses to play because he doesnt want his health to be put at risk? what happens then

there is no way this season is finishing its all a deluded dream

I bet there will never be a specific vaccine for Covid-19. We'll build up natural immunity, it'll become an accepted illness that affects the most vulnerable people, and there will ultimately be no money in pharmacy companies making a vaccine. The same thing happened with SARS.

 

[Kurt.]

I’m loving reading the mental gymnastics kopites are coming out with to justify giving them the title. They never fail to disappoint. Why are they all weird bellends ?

 

[Jamiednm]

I’m loving reading the mental gymnastics kopites are coming out with to justify giving them the title. They never fail to disappoint. Why are they all weird bellends ?

Yep.

Simple fact is, they haven't completed the job. End of.

 

[chrismpw]

I bet there will never be a specific vaccine for Covid-19. We'll build up natural immunity, it'll become an accepted illness that affects the most vulnerable people, and there will ultimately be no money in pharmacy companies making a vaccine. The same thing happened with SARS.

There's no money in cures. They'll come up with s raft of drugs to ameliorate symptoms. They're ongoing. There's money in that.

 

[chrismpw]

Yep.

Simple fact is, they haven't completed the job. End of.

Because of the oh so precious winter break lol

 

[aazak]

Because of the oh so precious winter break lol

That’s General Winter Break to you lol

 

[Jamiednm]

Im not saying I believe they are trying tp gain the moral high ground, im saying what the statement says makes sense.

If players take a pay cut, the owners save money and less tax is paid. Liverpool have just furloughed all their non paying staff so if their players take a 30% cut, who gains?
No the furloughed staff as they are not being paid bt the club, not the Government as the taxes have decreased. The only people who benwfit from a wage reduction is owners.

Now the players may need to take a reduction to offset losses from match day revenue or tv rights etc but the 30% reduction has nothing to do with helping the NHS make more money.

They would be better making a statement stating that they want the full pay but will donate X amount of money per month across the PL. Thats divided between money to NHS and staff of lower league clubs

If you're furloughing non-playing staff, it's immoral to keep your playing staff on full pay. It's not like the players have anything to do in this situation, they are effectively redundant.

I've got no problem with clubs paying their players as normal as long as the rest of their employees are treated in the exact same manner. But the reality is, the clubs are just cynically taking advantage of a scheme to lighten the lowest hanging fruit of their payroll and getting the taxpayer to pay for it. The government furlough scheme is designed to keep businesses running. No Premier League club would go out of business because of non-playing staff wages.