ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

[Blues Harp]

Haha its not only the brasses who got buggered

Eh??

 

[dow1978]

Eh??

If Keans antics help void the season.

 

[Wayno]

Seems to be football building up to getting back on since that last UEFA meeting last week, PL, Bundesliga, Serie A and LaLiga all planning on full training within days and weeks.

Imagine logging onto an Everton forum to post that when you don’t support Everton.

It’s no wonder your lot are most despised set of vermin in world football. Genuinely worrying behaviour.

 

[Blues Harp]

If Keans antics help void the season.

Like yeah lad of course it will......lollol

 

[dow1978]

Like yeah lad of course it will......lollol

I'm clutching at straws.....

 

[BlueStevie35]

Joyce and others reporting that Big Red have shelved the Anfield Road extension for a year under the guise of the pandemic delaying it, queue the morons using it to mention BMD as usual

 

[Wat Tyler]

Joyce and others reporting that Big Red have shelved the Anfield Road extension for a year under the guise of the pandemic delaying it, queue the morons using it to mention BMD as usual

They’re obsessed with our ground, obsessed.

I think it’s cos they’ve never had a new one and we are about to build out third ground. Or because they’re bitter snides.

 

[mccole]

@catcherintherye @Kurt

I am not suggesting that my plan would ever EVER work that's what I think the FA, Premier League and PFA need to think about.

We all know it's BS but I was giving a general points like the hotels, testing, travel, staffing etc etc.

I would hope that someone high up would put a stop to this.

 

[shagpuss]

It's my understanding Merkel has put the Kabosh on that little suggestion? I mean Germany have around a quarter of the daily deaths we've had (official figures, real figures much much lower) and have tested hundreds of thousands more people per days than us, and their government are still concerned about it.

On the specifics above though, I'll bite and start pointing out very obvious difficulties (it will be just some, not all).
1) Who is paying for these hotels? Will this be something in operation for all 92 teams, as if the PL is to finish with relegation, we need the EFL to finish for promotion. Who is funding hotels for 92 teams? You are talking over at least a 3 month period, probably 25 rooms, estimated with facilities in the current context you're not getting much change out of £150 a night. Anywhere from £300,000 to £500,000. Who's paying for them?

2) Where are we finding 92 hotels, that can also co-exist as training complexes from? I mean do we have any hotels that cater for professional athletes in this country? Never mind 92? Or even 20. Where are these magical hotels come pr football training centres.

3) Who's paying for every inch of them to be deep cleaned every day? Any idea of costs. Again, point 1, who is paying?

4) Are all of the associated professions to be quarantined as well?The journalists? The broadcasters? The lighting engineers? The camera men? The police officers? The ambulance drivers? The doctors? The physios? The hundreds of people we need at each game. Where are they all going? Who's paying for all of these people to be put into hotels? What authority does football have, to start dictating to doctors, police officers etc that they actually need to be quarantined, not doing their jobs helping the NHS, and actually just be on standby for football? What if they tell football to sling their hook and go home to their normal lives between games?

5) Same happening but with the bus. Who's driving the bus etc.

6) Why are footballers, who would need to be tested presumably daily, jumping the cue ahead of nurses, doctors, essential workers? Why are a group of essentially very healthy young men, who are at the least risked group, pushing in front of everyone else? It's morally reprehensible.

That's just off the top of my head. It's an appalling plan. It would be a shameful episode, perhaps the most shameful episode in footballs history if we did that. It would be indicative of a game that is wholly out of touch with it's base, it's supporters, the communities it operates in. Yes there are financial difficulties, all of them could be solved if footballers agreed a salary of 1 million per year maximum and spread the money out. We could avoid all of the problems if they did that.

@catcherintherye should be Chairman of the PL or Prime Minister. You talk far more sense than the footy suits or Tory twunt in Downing Street.

 

[shagpuss]

Scott Duxbury of Watford talking far more sense than any RS. Probably bullets in the post for him. He explains quite succinctly how football can't go ahead while society and the NHS are in such a mess.
Watford seem to be doing a lot of good work down there. Good on 'em. And thanks for the six points this season. Oh, and beating the RS 3-0. Good lads!

Football must not restart until strain on NHS eases, says Watford chairman

Watford chairman and CEO Scott Duxbury said: ‘I feel uncomfortable even talking about football’ given the current demands placed on the NHS by the coronavirus crisis

www.theguardian.com

 

[KaiserEFC]

I just don’t see it... firstly we have nhs front line staff who can’t get tested... you then gave care home staff who can’t get tested.... community workers who can’t get tested.... front line supermarket staff who can’t get tested..... imagine the uproar if they test football players instead. And that’s just a start.

Also the validity of the tests is in serious doubt could be as bad as 50% accurate

 

[Saint Domingo]

They’re obsessed with our ground, obsessed.

I think it’s cos they’ve never had a new one and we are about to build out third ground. Or because they’re bitter snides.

they put a lot of effort into mocking how we didn’t build kings dock or Kirkby despite the fact we’ll be moving into our third stadium and they can’t even manage to do all their stands.

 

[TippEverton]

Argentine league now gone, can't understand anyone even thinking about getting football played again at the minute with everything going on.

Then you see the Dortmund chief executive trying to pressure Merkel by claiming the bundesliga will go bust if it doesn't get started again, just seems a bit mad to me, just can't see how it can get back going anytime soon.

Would have preferred to put this in the cancel the league thread as it's definitely not just about that shower, and it is a fairly ongoing topic.

Maybe a new one could be opened save clogging this one up.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Would have preferred to put this in the cancel the league thread as it's definitely not just about that shower, and it is a fairly ongoing topic.

Maybe a new one could be opened save clogging this one up.

That is a good point. This makes it seem as though it is about the radishites.

 

[arch stanton]

Please explain .... and I’m honestly not trying to be a knob about it.... how is it easy to play behind doors football during the current climate we are living in ? I truly don’t understand how it could go ahead.

I would have thought that the playing of a game behind closed doors would be the easy bit, the keeping 20 clubs groups of staff, back room staff, TV Company staff, medics et al confined and regularly tested (at a time when tests are not confirmed to be 100% accurate) would be much harder. Trying to keep 500 young players away from their brass and beak parties may not be that easy.