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Coronavirus is bad news if you have an underlying health condition or are at the peak of physical fitness and just so happen to play for a relegation threatened football club....its pathetic and it needs looking at by the league bigwigs. Points deductions for this or next season for each pretend positive test result.
 
Rudders said:
Coronavirus is bad news if you have an underlying health condition or are at the peak of physical fitness and just so happen to play for a relegation threatened football club....its pathetic and it needs looking at by the league bigwigs. Points deductions for this or next season for each pretend positive test result.
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As the tests are all handled by the same company the PL has commissioned for this, how do you propose these teams are doing these “pretend tests”? Are the teams concerned using those 5G masts for it too in some way?
 
Going to put my tinfoil hat on here.

You‘re a footballer at a club at risk of getting relegated. You’re among the fittest people in society and virtually no chance of dying or being significantly affected by this virus. You’re probably a youngish players that hasn't made a great deal of money yet. Survival in the premier league is worth £175m to the club. They turn around to you and say, you can have £10m if you let us purposely infect you so that we can push for the league to be scrapped.

You're obviously going to agree to it aren‘t you.

...takes tinfoil hat off
 
FC Köln's version of cardboard cutouts is shirts over seats. Looks a lot better than a gormy cardboard cut out or a video wall of a load of weirdos on a 10 second delay.

Could drop a shirt off and they'll put it on your seat or something, maybe not a brand new one like, but I'm sure most of us have a tatty United shirt, or a macron one that's falling to bits.
 
s4-blade said:
Going to put my tinfoil hat on here.

You‘re a footballer at a club at risk of getting relegated. You’re among the fittest people in society and virtually no chance of dying or being significantly affected by this virus. You’re probably a youngish players that hasn't made a great deal of money yet. Survival in the premier league is worth £175m to the club. They turn around to you and say, you can have £10m if you let us purposely infect you so that we can push for the league to be scrapped.

You're obviously going to agree to it aren‘t you.

...takes tinfoil hat off
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I'll confess. That post has helped me out. I'd never knowingly heard the phrase "tinfoil hat" before. I've thought about it. Googled it. Looked it up. I quite like it......
 
s4-blade said:
Going to put my tinfoil hat on here.

You‘re a footballer at a club at risk of getting relegated. You’re among the fittest people in society and virtually no chance of dying or being significantly affected by this virus. You’re probably a youngish players that hasn't made a great deal of money yet. Survival in the premier league is worth £175m to the club. They turn around to you and say, you can have £10m if you let us purposely infect you so that we can push for the league to be scrapped.

You're obviously going to agree to it aren‘t you.

...takes tinfoil hat off
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Hi David Icke!! 😉😉
 
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Kev Gee said:
Norwich want promotion scrapped if Championship season is not completed..

Of course you do Norwich.

www.theguardian.com

Norwich want Championship promotion scrapped if season curtailed

Norwich ‘could not accept’ being relegated to the Championship if the second tier did not play all their games
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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So Norwich won’t accept being relegated if clubs are promoted from a Champ that hasn’t finished its fixtures.

Eh??

Let me get this right. Whether Norwich deserve to stay up, or go down, depends on how many games West Brom have played, in a different division???

Fuck me, this Toilet Duck fad is generating madder psychedelic shit every day. Where can I get some?
 
Football as an industry is broken. The risks, rewards & jeopardy are all out of kilter. If you get relegated, it should be - "FFS, ah well, we'll have to give it a right old go next year".
It no longer feels like that. It feels (or at least it's portrayed as) apocalyptic. In that completely artificial, anti-football atmosphere, these mad conspiracy theories about players faking Covid-19 tests & all sorts of other shit are allowed to breathe. We did this......
 

Why hell are the FA skirting around the issue that multiple efl teams are about to go bust without immediate help ? Lower league Football is about collapse if it loses a few teams and several owners have said this but seems its all about the prem.
 
Glyn Hodges left foot said:
Why hell are the FA skirting around the issue that multiple efl teams are about to go bust without immediate help ? Lower league Football is about collapse if it loses a few teams and several owners have said this but seems its all about the prem.
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Probably because without the rest of the premier league tv money they can’t afford to help prop up the lower leagues.
 
YES Blade said:
Just treat it like any other illness or injury, it’s just tough shit if players aren’t available. Just carry on and play the match.
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If each of the bottom few clubs have a couple of Coronavirus +ve players, they are all equally disadvantaged.
Evens itself out - play on!
 
Glyn Hodges left foot said:
Why hell are the FA skirting around the issue that multiple efl teams are about to go bust without immediate help ? Lower league Football is about collapse if it loses a few teams and several owners have said this but seems its all about the prem.
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If Wednesday are one of those teams, then I hope they carry on skirting around the issue.
 
Harrisblade said:
If each of the bottom few clubs have a couple of Coronavirus +ve players, they are all equally disadvantaged.
Evens itself out - play on!
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Players often miss games through viruses. This is a bad one, and you'd hope that they'll suffer minimally or be asymptomatic and return as soon as they can, but yeah, it's not going to vanish so it needs to be treated as a thing that happens now, same as food poisoning, the flu etc
 
bromtom said:
Players often miss games through viruses. This is a bad one, and you'd hope that they'll suffer minimally or be asymptomatic and return as soon as they can, but yeah, it's not going to vanish so it needs to be treated as a thing that happens now, same as food poisoning, the flu etc
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Food poisoning is a good point, when half the Spurs team got food poisoning the night before/day of the last match of the season, which cost them a Champions League place, it was just bad luck.

If a team loses 3, 4 or even 5 players, it’s just bad luck, get on with it.
 
YES Blade said:
Just treat it like any other illness or injury, it’s just tough shit if players aren’t available. Just carry on and play the match.
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What happens if half our squad gets infected after we have played 2/3 matches? I know it's highly unlikely but if someone gets covid and then trains with a squad you're potentially screwed. Should we really treat that as a regular injury? Would be pretty unfair if we miss out on a European ticket bc we had to play our u 23 for some matches.

It's highly unlikely that something like this happens anyway, but if it does happen I wouldn't mind making a rule for it that we try to postpone those matches for a couple weeks (since we're extending it by a lot anyway)
 
YES Blade said:
Food poisoning is a good point, when half the Spurs team got food poisoning the night before/day of the last match of the season, which cost them a Champions League place, it was just bad luck.

If a team loses 3, 4 or even 5 players, it’s just bad luck, get on with it.
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And if you don't like it and cry off, you get a three point deduction like Middlesbrough got back when they claimed the entire squad got flu. They could have played the youth team and lost by up to 7 and stayed up, but chose not to
 
If you have a tight hamstring. And play. That'd be mad. You won't be up to it. But, at least your teammates won't catch a tight hamstring from you.
If you have Flu. And play. That'd be mad. You won't be up to it. And, your teammates might catch it from you.
If you have food poisoning. And play. That'd be mad. You won't be up to it. And, your teammates might catch it from you.

If you have Covid-19. And, you're asymptomatic. You're perfectly up to playing. Bang at it. Nothing outwardly wrong with you. Raring to go. Wilder wants you in. But, some snot you put in a jar says you can't play.

Maybe there's "no alternative". But, don't try to tell me "it's like any other injury".
 
Dutch Blades said:
What happens if half our squad gets infected after we have played 2/3 matches? I know it's highly unlikely but if someone gets covid and then trains with a squad you're potentially screwed. Should we really treat that as a regular injury? Would be pretty unfair if we miss out on a European ticket bc we had to play our u 23 for some matches.

It's highly unlikely that something like this happens anyway, but if it does happen I wouldn't mind making a rule for it that we try to postpone those matches for a couple weeks (since we're extending it by a lot anyway)
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A sensible cut off would be the best option, like if you have 4 players affected this season that have played a certain amount of minutes, you can play it at a later date if you want.

Next season though, assuming there's not a silver bullet for it, it's just part of the world going forward for the foreseeable and should be treated as luck of the draw like other things that stop players playing.
 

Seen a few journalists mention last week in June now. Have zero issue with it. Not hungry for behind closed doors football but if we must have it I want it to be as good as possible.
 
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