Correct, like many business suffering now and to come, the landscape of football will change this year and next.
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Correct, like many business suffering now and to come, the landscape of football will change this year and next.
Imagine getting to the point in life where, not only are you still a red pretending to be an Everton fan on the internet (on your second* account), but you’re also now pretending to give a toss about lower league clubs to deflect from the absolutely blatant agenda that every single person can see you have.
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definitely - but the grim reality is life as we know it might change for good. There could be a scenario where stadiums don't get used in the medium - long term; football for sure would be very very different & damaged, but I dont think it will stop
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We can, and that may be the route this all takes.
I've simply maintained since day one that, if possible, resuming will be the preference for the majority of clubs, fans, players and authorities because it minimises disruption, is in keeping with the spirit of the game and avoids the potential legal consequences of the authorities making unprecedented decisions based on an incomplete table. They obviously don't want to do that and I can understand why.
It may be that they reach a point where re-starting the season is the only viable alternative. But the only real benefit to doing that is ensuring the future Football calendar remains somewhat intact. And there's no real value attached to that other than "I don't like change - I like my Footy Aug-May and I like my World Cups in the summer etc'.
If you put that consequence (of shifting the traditional Football calendar) alongside the potential loss of actual Football clubs, thousands of jobs, millions of pounds etc, it sort've pales into insignificance.
monty
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Try sticking the hairs you've just split back together and you'll find your answer.
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It's OK not to be able to back up your original claim, mate. If you can't answer the question, just say so. You don't have to resort to name-calling, you're better than that.
catcherintherye
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Of course it's more complex to re-start and have to adjust the calendars. I mean voiding a season is very simple. There are consequences, but it's very simple. You know you'll have to pay back 1/4 of the revenues to TV (and probably sponsors) but it starts again.
Starting to play games, outside of the schedule, impacting upon future tournaments, future seasons, potentially fundamentally altering the football calendar which has worked for 140+ years. Inputting national and international broadcasters, who have slots they are happy to fill football in and have built audience engagement is going to be a lot more complex. Nobody has really even started the conversation about re-altering several seasons, but that is an exceptionally complex arrangements.
You talk of sponsors too, who is sponsoring Liverpools shirts if they lift the title? The New Balance agreement is for this season, but ends at the end of June? That is a major, complex minefield, which is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to re-altering.
I know people say about the World Cup, but this was a process, that has taken years to agree too, with associations very reluctant and affects 1 season. Trying to alter multiple seasons, in a space of weeks, with relegation at stake and a pandemic raging is going to be a lot lot harder.
I can fully understand people saying it's less ethical, or less fair. Thats a different debate and worthwhile one. However re-altering entire seasons in the space of weeks, with multiple competing interests is going to be highly complex. With each solution will come 2 more problems.
No one is mentioning “August-May” here, absolutely not a single person other than you. Stop going on about it.
He didn’t call you any names Cookachoo.
catcherintherye
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This is a big problem for the PL. Essentially it's UEFA saying that they will want to continue the CL and EL. That is only going to delay potential finishing further.
At some point we are going to have to acknowledge what the real debate is. We either play 1/4 of this season, or we play it from start to finish. They are increasingly looking like the options. For most clubs, in fact I'd say all clubs, financially starting the season afresh will be the financially more prudent option. For a small handful of clubs they may lose out, and of that group a few may say they lose out so much that it's worth the sacrifice for them. I don't think it's worth the sacrifice for football though.
A huge amount of the "just void" argument on here is based on the logic that its better to get back to the normal scheduled season (ie: Aug-May)
bcblue1878
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Let me guess the poster with a name somewhere between 3 and 5 is still around? Bang him on ignore, it’ll do wonders for your blood pressure, and denies him the attention he seems to crave!
monty
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Name calling, what bad name have I called you, hair spliter could be construed as a name but hair splitting can't. Dear me more invention
No it isn't, not at all. Absolutely no one has said that next season has to start in August.
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This last bit is probably true whatever the outcome, whether it's resumed or voided.
I agree with a lot of what you say here, but I can't agree that reshuffling calendars due to an unforeseen international crisis (therefore not up for debate) is harder than having to void a season and all of the legal, financial and ethical consequences that come with that, as you mentioned. It's essentially a scheduling issue (something which they'd already committed to with the World Cup) vs totally unchartered waters.
Reference Liverpools shirts, it was on The Athletic the other week that Nike have agreed to let them continue with New Balance until the start of next season, whenever that will be.
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