Could they void the PL due to the Coronavirus? | No | Resuming June 17th
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getting it right is one thing, making it available to 7 billion people is another thing
Cheers, hopefully the Tour is still on then, although it might be wiser to scrap it altogether this season too.
The point is clear. If they decide to make Liverpool champions they'll have to honour that across all divisions with regards to league leaders. Then they'll rightly want and be entitled to promotion. And so on and so on.
You either treat every club the same or you don't bother. Everyone was going on about "lawsuits" if they voided the league. Newsflash. Discrimination will attract the biggest lawsuit possible. It simply has to be a level playing field.
Not sure why it should be easer to start new season in August. If anything there'd be 2-3 weeks of friendlies anyway so I'd rather try to finish this one during July / August.
I cannot see any football happening until they find a cure for this awful pandemic.
Football will TRY to restart, but once someone is infected that's it.
I love Liverpool, but I can't see any football at Anfield until next summer at the earliest now.
Football will TRY to restart, but once someone is infected that's it.
I love Liverpool, but I can't see any football at Anfield until next summer at the earliest now.
Doesn't that blow a hole in UEFA's plans to restart the CL/EL as well? PSG and Lyon were still in Europe.
European football is done.
Yep, agree with much of this. In so many different sectors it will be near enough impossible to implement social distancing and eradicate contamination. You do what you can to limit spread but there is always going to be risk. If you start heading down the road of ‘what ifs’ which is what a lot of people are doing with football in this thread then the only option is to close down everything permanently. I mentioned too that football will actually be better equipped then a lot of other sectors because of the resources available to them. The people playing football are also the least likely to be badly affected by corona. But you know what it’s like, when it comes to football, even people who love football have this deep rooted grudge against it. So they can’t see the forest for the trees.
Yeah I know , I’ve said it a few times in my posts that this is all based on government giving the go ahead. Football isn’t going rogue and doing its own thing.
As for wrestling, that’s Donald Trump but wrestling doesn’t have the same stigma attached to it as football so actually nobody cares and it’s probably not influenced anyone’s behaviour. I’ve not seen anyone in America protesting based on wrestling being allowed to continue.
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Not quite.
UEFA have talked about a 10-day knockout tournament in a neutral location to finish the 2 cups.
I think that is the likeliest scenario that will occur sometime in August in a UEFA country which has turned the corner.
First big nation Netherlands started it, now France follows suit. Only a question of time before Spain, Italy and then England abandons the current season and void all results. The funny thing is; since it’s Liverpool the discussions will be different and take longer - which is a huge shame. This decision should be made by politicians, not the football clubs.
Ok , something to look forward to.
Cancel the season, focus on starting the next one properly whenever it can happen. Only thing that makes sense.
Until this post I always thought your username was Darth Vader for some reason.
I said it at the start I'll say it again. If it was city that were top the calls to cancel would be a lot louder I think.
The emotional loss of football fans isn't actually worth anything, sorry Liverpool.
Could be done for 20-21 as well
If European countries all ban sport till Sep they can't play the 80+ matches for CL group stage qualification and 200+ matches for Europa group stage qualification that usually happen in June-August.
Literally, it's beyond odd.
Footballs an easy target and it has been for years, case in point how many people throwing a hissy fit at the thought of BCD football will display the same outrage when soaps start filming? (something that probably carries more risk when you consider the bulk of the filming is done internally on small sets, not to mention the make up).
French league done.
Makes you wonder what they'd do if this season is voided but football can't start up again until December or January. How can you start a season half way through?
The timing of the Qatar world cup would inadvertently offer the solution.
Two calendar year season's!
With the world cup in November, they could adjust a season to make it fit around that. They were having to do it anyway
But doesn't it eventually have to return to normal?
Indeed. This is all assuming no second wave/new lockdowns or restrictions in autumn, as well, which would disrupt the season all over again.
Sporting integrity they cry!
with France sensibly cancelling the league - does that satirist the delusional dippers who were crying that it didn’t matter what the other leagues did as they weren’t big enough?
teams are one by one effectively dropping out of the CL and the Europe League as their domestic seasons are cancelled.
They will have to announce soon the CL and EL is cancelled - unless of course the PL can continue with charade, and Utd can get a bye to the final and then win by default (the Liverpool way
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other countries to follow suit in the next few weeks.
with France sensibly cancelling the league - does that satirist the delusional dippers who were crying that it didn’t matter what the other leagues did as they weren’t big enough?
teams are one by one effectively dropping out of the CL and the Europe League as their domestic seasons are cancelled.
They will have to announce soon the CL and EL is cancelled - unless of course the PL can continue with charade, and Utd can get a bye to the final and then win by default (the Liverpool way
).other countries to follow suit in the next few weeks.
Yep , could be a while until we see any euro footie.
I reckon it is inevitable that they all follow suit soon.
I wouldn’t if I were you. It’s not happening.
Without a doubt, no one will want to start a second wave of infection through football if all the other associations call it a day.
Is there anything reported about why the French didnt feel they could do BCD?
Twas sarcasm.
It's a totally unprecedented situation.
That's why we have these worrying sounding paper speculations, of Liverpool the title, 2-3 teams up from the champ, and no relegation - plus no champs league.
That'd be one dreadful combo
The issue, is that Liverpool winning the league is the only "given" out of all the scenarios throughout the leagues, with maybe Bolton being relegated out of league 1 the only other obvious one.
Yes we can argue that it's not mathematically done, but it'd be one brave FA to take on the scouse mafia in the press, and a big powerhouse club like Liverpool.
If it went to a Premier league vote, simply on awarding the title, there's no way in hell they'd vote no. Professional clubs aren't as spiteful as us lot.
And so the second domino falls. This season never happened. The only thing to decide is who might qualify for any potential Euro competitions for 2020/21 season if that goes ahead in some, probably shortened, form). The options are probably the following...
Same as last year (no legal arguments here - essentially rolling back to restart this season)
Based on current positions - fraught with legal implications unless we are able to offer extra champs league spots - unlikely unless UEFA is feeling very generous and can schedule extra rounds.
Based on a shortened play-off games involving all teams in contention - depends on ability to get games completed and some contention about who takes part.
Relegation and promotion is so legally toxic that this will be avoided, which points us more in the direction of "Same as last year" option - as we essentially say the 2019/2020 season starts again in 2020/21 and avoids all the complications.
Same as last year (no legal arguments here - essentially rolling back to restart this season)
Based on current positions - fraught with legal implications unless we are able to offer extra champs league spots - unlikely unless UEFA is feeling very generous and can schedule extra rounds.
Based on a shortened play-off games involving all teams in contention - depends on ability to get games completed and some contention about who takes part.
Relegation and promotion is so legally toxic that this will be avoided, which points us more in the direction of "Same as last year" option - as we essentially say the 2019/2020 season starts again in 2020/21 and avoids all the complications.
Its basically fan fiction.
Liverpool fans making up each and every scenerio, and the only thing that matters is Liverpool end as champions. It’s understandable, but I would of thought by now they would have got over this and started to live on the real world.
Waiting until August means we buy 4months to hope things ease to allow football again.
I think that no matter the country, trying to force the issue BCD will have negative results. You know that some idiots will gather in front of stadiums, or in somebody's place to watch it.
The Premier League has the most to lose but i think this is a bad idea.
I think every situation has been considered now.
We should make a flow chart!
There'd be one branch with playing BCD - which surely has to be unlikely.
Then the - season finishes, and how to sort that out.
With many options, all really messy.
Just can't see it happening as doing that really would create issues. If you give Liverpool the title you'd have to give every league leader in England champion status and whatever else comes with that. Don't think it's about being spiteful, it's about being fair and equality.
I can't see a one off special exception being made for Liverpool whilst everyone else suffers.
Some grounds have banks you can loiter on and see a lot of the game - my league 1 team does, and I know Northampton in league 2 do.
You'd have to station people there to stop that happening en masse!
Obviously I hope you're right fella!
Since the chat about average points and top 3 going up in league 1 died down (my boys Wycombe would go up on that solution!!), then i'm so over PPG!!