Football 19/20

[thetime]

So Spain has the 2nd largest outbreak of coronavirus in Europe, Madrid itself has nearly double the cases of the UK. So to allow thousands of Madrid fans to watch football in Liverpool,  seems to be extremely shortsighted. Do they not know how it spreads, bog spike in the next 7 days.

Edited March 11, 2020 by thetime

[Wooderson]

Will be finished behind closed doors in the autumn. Bext season fixtures anyones guess.

[lost]

55 minutes ago, thetime said:

Do they not know how it spreads

I'd probably have thousands of people trying to project abuse at the referee on the pitch with spittle going everywhere when a decision goes against them in my top 3.

[ThomThomDrum]

Simply run the rest of the season using a Champ Man simulation. 😉

[thetime]

1 hour ago, lost said:

I'd probably have thousands of people trying to project abuse at the referee on the pitch with spittle going everywhere when a decision goes against them in my top 3.

Van Dijk spraying snot is up there.

[Hugh Jass]

If anyone needs proof that behind closed doors simply doesn’t work try flicking over to PSG - Dortmund.

It’s like elite football behind played on Hackney Marshes.

[Comfy Bean]

12 hours ago, The Nal said:

Oh its crap yeah but seems it'll be the way for a few months now. Theyll have to make a call on the Euros in the next couple of weeks.

Likely you would think. Clubs want the Euros cancelled to finish the leagues.

Scotland v Israel play off semi is sold out but looking unlikely to go ahead.

The all powerful clubs will probably push to postpone/bin the euros and if the play off games don’t happen in a couple of weeks that could swing it.

Put the season on hold for a month and play into the summer ?

[Hugh Jass]

There’s no team in European football you’d least want to be chasing a goal against than Atletico.

[priest17]

Decent article about what will happen with the rest of the season, obviously no concrete answers but it's concise and they've done their homework. I dunno if you can still read a certain amount of these articles for free or not 

https://theathletic.com/1669393/2020/03/12/coronavirus-and-football-games-closes-doors-euros-champions-league?source=shared-article

 

[The Nal]

LFCs season went tits up fairly quickly. From invincibles to 4 losses in 6 games. Out of two cups in a week. Squad not quite there yet for sustained challenges on all fronts. Bit of work for Klopp to do in the summer.

[Wooderson]

14 minutes ago, The Nal said:

LFCs season went tits up fairly quickly. From invincibles to 4 losses in 6 games. Out of two cups in a week. Squad not quite there yet for sustained challenges on all fronts. Bit of work for Klopp to do in the summer.

Theyve not won the league in 30 years.

[Wooderson]

😃😏🙄😃

[The Nal]

8 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Theyve not won the league in 30 years.

Oh sure and you would've taken that at the start of the season. But thats been in the bag since before Christmas. There was a treble on though.

Its fine margins. Need to pad the squad out. 3 mistakes from that keeper in two important cup games for example.

[eFestivals]

36 minutes ago, The Nal said:

LFCs season went tits up fairly quickly. From invincibles to 4 losses in 6 games. Out of two cups in a week. Squad not quite there yet for sustained challenges on all fronts. Bit of work for Klopp to do in the summer.

I'm wondering how this year's flat spot aligns with last year's flat spot...?

But anyway, if the CL gets cancelled they still get to be champions for another year. Might happen.  

[eFestivals]

14 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Oh sure and you would've taken that at the start of the season. But thats been in the bag since before Christmas. There was a treble on though.

Its fine margins. Need to pad the squad out. 3 mistakes from that keeper in two important cup games for example.

even before his latest games he had the biggest error rate for leading to goals of all goalies - which was good going for someone who hadn't played all the games.  

[st dan]

Would make sense to just cancel the Euros now, and let club teams from around Europe finish their seasons in that same period (assuming we are over the worst by June/July). 

[priest17]

1 minute ago, st dan said:

Would make sense to just cancel the Euros now, and let club teams from around Europe finish their seasons in that same period (assuming we are over the worst by June/July). 

Won't happen as that's how UEFA get a tonne of their funding.

[The Nal]

34 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

even before his latest games he had the biggest error rate for leading to goals of all goalies - which was good going for someone who hadn't played all the games.  

Oh didn't know that. Yeah was all over the shop for all 3 goals last night. His positioning is dreadful for a keeper at that level. One to be shipped out this summer. 

[st dan]

31 minutes ago, priest17 said:

Won't happen as that's how UEFA get a tonne of their funding.

True - although I can’t see any other realistic solution. 

Assuming league seasons now get scrapped (which is looking ever more likely by the day) do we all this the current ‘as is’ standings should be applied for Champions/promotions/relegations etc. Or should the seasons just be voided and started again next season? Or play off systems? 

[eFestivals]

10 minutes ago, st dan said:

Assuming league seasons now get scrapped (which is looking ever more likely by the day) do we all this the current ‘as is’ standings should be applied for Champions/promotions/relegations etc. Or should the seasons just be voided and started again next season? Or play off systems? 

i reckon they'll go with current placings, because using last year's placings for CL entry (for example) would be daft.

[st dan]

3 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

i reckon they'll go with current placings, because using last year's placings for CL entry (for example) would be daft.

Yeah would make sense - particularly for run away league leaders e.g. Liverpool. Not sure how it would work for relegations mind, as it would be incredibly tough to relegate Bournemouth and Villa (with a game in hand) on current standings with 9 games still to go and any number of teams who could still go down. 

Then there are the incredibly tight leagues in particularly La Liga and Serie A - not sure Madrid and Lazio/Inter would be too happy. But guess that would be a case of ‘tough’. 
 

[kaosmark2]

What most makes sense to me is carrying it on into next season, and having next season as a much reduced duration, half the games or something. 

[thetime]

32 minutes ago, kaosmark2 said:

What most makes sense to me is carrying it on into next season, and having next season as a much reduced duration, half the games or something. 

Drop carabao and FA cup games, that frees up about 10 dates.

[TheGayTent]

To call a season off as finished with almost 25% of fixtures outstanding is ridiculous 

[eFestivals]

6 minutes ago, TheGayTent said:

To call a season off as finished with almost 25% of fixtures outstanding is ridiculous 

I don't disagree, but to put last seasons top 4 into next season's CL would also be ridiculous, as would be a relegation-threatened team using the summer to buy themselves out of trouble, etc, etc, etc.

Whatever they decide to do will have some people screaming it's unfair.