Cancelling this season's Premier League

[Tin-Tin]

What would happen to promotion and relegation issues throughout the leagues?

Think everything would just start where last season finished - its the only way you could do it. So no promotion or relegation. Teams who finished in CL, EL positions last year would enter the competitons start of next season. Just have to make ot like ot didnt exist

Was thinking about the relegation as well earlier.
Impossible to sort out.
Especially for teams with point deductions this season etc.

Any side could go on a run and be safe, whereas Liverpool are home and hosed to win the league.

( Leeds not getting promoted would be funny as though.. )

Dont think any other teams are mathematically down or up - Liverpool would mathematically have won it but if you cancel the league you cant just hand out the title and nothing else is decided.

Its started

 

[Brisan123]

Hmmm who are the four who voted "no" May have a flick through this thread, so should the Mod's. lol

I don't understand, what's the point of cancelling the football if the rest of the country carries on as normal? Or are we going to be under some sort of curfew?!

 

[McBain]

I would give myself Coronavirus to see this happen.

 

[Brisan123]

 

[barneygumble]

If it's cancelled before Liverpool actually officially win it, even though they're 99.99% likely, they can't just give them it?

They'd have to freeze the league as it for Euro Places too.

Bloody Corona Virus.

 

[dublinbluenose]

If it's cancelled before Liverpool actually officially win it, even though they're 99.99% likely, they can't just give them it?

They'd have to freeze the league as it for Euro Places too.

Bloody Corona Virus.

It would be "awarded" to them, wouldn't be the same as winning it.

 

[barneygumble]

Euro 2020 will not be played this summer in my opinion

Would be too controversial surely? They'd have to cancel the entire thing. They have Nations League games all winter, so they'd need to play that.

My personal prediction for it, will be that Italy loses its games. They could have literally any other nation fill in, Russia, England, Germany etc to fill the seats.

 

[barneygumble]

It would be "awarded" to them, wouldn't be the same as winning it.

Get what you're saying, but technically they could be caught, I know how unrealistic it would be, but couldn't Man City place a lawsuit.

Obviously, entirely hypothetical, because end of the day, they deserve it.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Get what you're saying, but technically they could be caught, I know how unrealistic it would be, but couldn't Man City place a lawsuit.

Obviously, entirely hypothetical, because end of the day, they deserve it.

City's legal team might be a bit busy over the next while with UEFA!

 

[aazak]

Get what you're saying, but technically they could be caught, I know how unrealistic it would be, but couldn't Man City place a lawsuit.

Obviously, entirely hypothetical, because end of the day, they deserve it.

If they got everything they deserved...

 

[Wat Tyler]

Would be too controversial surely? They'd have to cancel the entire thing. They have Nations League games all winter, so they'd need to play that.

My personal prediction for it, will be that Italy loses its games. They could have literally any other nation fill in, Russia, England, Germany etc to fill the seats.

It’s not necessarily the fact that Italy has games it’s the fact that they have just announced they’re not kicking a ball until April, which means their season won’t finish in time for the Euros

 

[boris]

Would be too controversial surely? They'd have to cancel the entire thing. They have Nations League games all winter, so they'd need to play that.

My personal prediction for it, will be that Italy loses its games. They could have literally any other nation fill in, Russia, England, Germany etc to fill the seats.

France, Spain, Germany, The UK and many other major European countries are going to be where Italy now is within 2 weeks.

This problem is not an Chinese, Iranian or Italian issue, it’s a worldwide epidemic and we’ll be in full lockdown very soon also.

There’s no way whatsoever The Euros or Olympics will be taking place as planned.

There’s a real chance the PL won’t get finished either so hopefully the plug gets pulled before Liverpool have mathematically won it.

 

[Tin-Tin]

If it's cancelled before Liverpool actually officially win it, even though they're 99.99% likely, they can't just give them it?

They'd have to freeze the league as it for Euro Places too.

Bloody Corona Virus.

It would be "awarded" to them, wouldn't be the same as winning it.

But if the season is abandoned, even after its mathematically impossible for City to catch them, you cant give the trophy to Liverpool as essentialy they would be voiding the league.

 

[Tin-Tin]

From BBC article

Unless matches are allowed to be played behind closed doors, it is impossible to see how the season can finish. That would raise all kinds of issues. Everyone knows Liverpool are going to be Premier League champions. But what about the top four, relegation and promotion from the Championship?

If the season does not end, how would these matters be decided? The legal implications of relegating a team from a campaign that has not reached its conclusion are mind-blowing given the finances involved. The same is true of denying sides promotion. And scrapping the whole thing and starting again is impossible to conceive of - imagine the outcry on Merseyside for a start.

Tranmere Rovers chairman Mark Palios, a former chief executive of the Football Association, believes clubs will not mount legal challenges if the league is suspended.

He told BBC Sport: "If they do, they have to mount legal challenges against the government. I think it's the wrong road. I don't think any sensible person will look at that."

 

[barneygumble]

BBC is right though.

I just mentioned, giving the European spots to those in European places currently, and start again, but relegation works on both fronts.

Look at teams like Barrow who could be promoted to the football league, who'd miss out.

What about Leeds and West Brom who'd miss out on a huge windfall? Unless they were to play a shortened year next year? Scrap League Cup it'd be a right mess.