Football and the Coronavirus

jonneymendoza said:
And if it can't be played to the end?
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Then you delay the start of next season, scrap the league cup next season and remove FA Cup replays to give more space for fixtures and use the additional space to finish this season. I personally think we will be out of lockdown before the start of July this year, so the matches can be played behind closed doors if need be, in July and August of this year.
 
What would happen if there is a second outbreak of the infection once the lockdown is lifted which is highly likely.

Would be pretty frown apon by the general public watching footballers get tested every other day.

The league would have been null and void by now for only the huge amount of money involved.
 
Great article by karen brady in the paper yesterday raises many many questions about getting the season finished I still don't see it being completed

Playing behind closed doors still isn't simple, will still require some policing along with security and medical staff as fans will still turn up.

If lockdown is lifted theres still likely to be social distancing measures, how can squads train properly?

If a player gets injured duringa match where do they take him they cant exactly go to the nhs thats full of covid and private hospitals are either closed or been converted to nhs covid overspills

If kids are back at school many players have children if they pick up a cough are they going ot be tested? We cant even test all the nhs at the moment

So many problems even trying to play behind closed doors.

Seasons wont be finished imo
 
I agree with @Bigpig, unless the UK can source a lot more testing kits I don't think people will look favourably on the PL testing players constantly (which is what it would have to do to) when there are still thousands of key workers who haven't been tested. Even then, the amount of testing they'd have to do to ensure teams are safe to train every day and then play a game at the weekend is mind boggling. They'd have to test every player and member of the team staff before they arrive at the training ground each day, then again before a game, plus before anyone is allowed in the ground they'd have to test all ground crew, media personnel, etc. We're talking hundreds of tests per team per week, and when you consider there are 20 teams and still 9 games for each team left to play, that's about 35,000 tests you'd need to conduct in total.

As others have said, I really don't see the season finishing.
 
There's no suggestion of games being played for close to two months, if not longer. By this time testing will be more readily available and we'll possibly, if not likely already have seen the lockdown restrictions lifted. Leagues are already looking at various possibly ways to finish the season up to and including ideas of players isolating away from families for a period of weeks and having games played at limited venues on the same day to keep the total number of non playing staff required to a minimum.

Regarding the more specific point on finishing this season. Testing will have to be carried out until there is a vaccine in place, which is likely to be over a year away. Are we cancelling next season too?
 
The_One said:
Great article by karen brady in the paper yesterday raises many many questions about getting the season finished I still don't see it being completed

Playing behind closed doors still isn't simple, will still require some policing along with security and medical staff as fans will still turn up.

If lockdown is lifted theres still likely to be social distancing measures, how can squads train properly?

If a player gets injured duringa match where do they take him they cant exactly go to the nhs thats full of covid and private hospitals are either closed or been converted to nhs covid overspills

If kids are back at school many players have children if they pick up a cough are they going ot be tested? We cant even test all the nhs at the moment

So many problems even trying to play behind closed doors.

Seasons wont be finished imo
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Karen Brady is an utter moron. If West Ham were 1 point worse off her opinion would be the complete opposite. She's a hypocrite of the highest order.
 
BaZ87 said:
There's no suggestion of games being played for close to two months, if not longer. By this time testing will be more readily available and we'll possibly, if not likely already have seen the lockdown restrictions lifted. Leagues are already looking at various possibly ways to finish the season up to and including ideas of players isolating away from families for a period of weeks and having games played at limited venues on the same day to keep the total number of non playing staff required to a minimum.

Regarding the more specific point on finishing this season. Testing will have to be carried out until there is a vaccine in place, which is likely to be over a year away. Are we cancelling next season too?
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Lockdown will likely be gone but social distancing wont disappear that probably with us indefinitely until vaccines are produced
 
Its a possibility

Will sound stupid

But telling someone there would be no euros, no Olympics, no Wimbledon last year in 2020 also sounded stupid
 
The_One said:
Its a possibility

Will sound stupid

But telling someone there would be no euros, no Olympics, no Wimbledon last year in 2020 also sounded stupid
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Those are individual events that are held at a specific time. It's far easier to rearrange those things.

Football as a sport is a year round thing, with even 1/4 of a season not being finished making it a very real possibility of huge numbers of clubs going under. Playing no football for 12-18 months will end professional football. As soon as it's practically possible, football will resume even with social distancing measures in place. The availability of testing and the strain on hospitals will determine when that time is.

We've already seen German clubs return to training and their hope is to be able to resume playing sometime next month.
 
The_One said:
Businesses are going under stop thinking they cant allow football clubs to go under also
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They being the government? It's already widely reported that the government are in favour of football returning ASAP. In fact, judging by the EFL letter that's been leaked, there's nothing stopping clubs from returning to training now. Heck, I'm not even sure if there's anything, from a legal pov, that's preventing matches from being played.
 
Its an awkward one, even amongst fans, because there are a lot of people who desperately do not want the season to complete (for one reason or another) and another lot of people who desperately do want the season to complete (for one reason or another).

I'm personally of the opinion that the season will indeed complete, which will no doubt make some people very happy and some other people very unhappy :)
 
Unless the season can be resumed normally (empty stadiums though I imagine) within the next couple of months they need to just declare it null and avoid, if they want this season to count for something then have some one-off handicap system for next season similar to how you get teams who have gone into admin starting on -10pts etc. Oh and scrap VAR it caused more controversy than it fixed and it was supposed to eradicate it altogether, not to mention slowed down games and ruined many a goal celebration.
 
A2Z said:
Don't understand why they can't just test all the players/staff, make sure they are all negative, then play all the games behind closed doors and finish the season.
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I think the problems with that approach are:
  • The pandemic is on-going, so you'd have to retest everyone immediately before the matches
  • What do you do when someone tests positive? That could be really disruptive for the whole league if games start getting postponed.
  • In addition to staff, you'd have to consider media and medical personnel that would be present at the matches (even if the majority of media are remote, they would want cameramen etc)
  • Transport / accommodation needs
  • Why should footballers jump the queue for testing when we aren't yet testing all the high risk groups like front-line NHS workers? Sorry Dr Bloggs, I know you've spent 60hrs this week with pneumonia patients but Kyle Walker has blagged your test kit, come back in a couple of weeks pal.
Some of these probably aren't that big a deal but the big one I think would be understanding what you do when you get positive cases, "make sure they are all negative" is easier said than done and the whole plan is based around the assumption that everything is fine.
 
Ozil really does make it easy to be made the scapegoat doesn’t he....

How did he think not taking the pay cut would be portrayed in the media?!
 
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