The Football.....

[Stephenite]

Have to agree......it will not feel like a real title.
I just read that Belgium have just closed the league with all teams standing in the places they are now in.

Probably the best way to go about it, I reckon.

That's at this moment in time. Who knows how things will pan out over the next few months.

 

[Accy cyclist]

How about this for an idea? Yes,it may sound daft to some,but i think it's feasible. Start next season,if that's possible at all due to current circumstances,with the remaining games of this season added on and played first. Then after a short break start the 2020/21 season properly after Liverpool are given their deserved (after winning it fair and square to silence the one's who'll forever say 'they didn't actually win it'!) title. This goes for all the other leagues as well,by the way. All clubs regardless of which league/division they're in should be allowed to opt out of all or some cup competitions,if they say/think there'll be too many games for them to manage in one season.

Edited at 2.30am....Note to myself.. fecking stupid idea! STFU and stick to watching Accy Stanley!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Ah! just had a thought. The 2020/21 league fixtures wouldn't be able to be sorted till we knew who'd gone up or down! I feel a bit of a self-gratification artist now (hence the late editing of the previous post),but hey,i'm only trying to help!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Just seen this comment,following this article. ....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52142267

• 1584. Posted bymargaret
  on18 minutes ago
  Unsurprisingly, Alex Ferguson has refused to take a pay cut, for his roll of Club Ambassador for Manchester United. A 3.5 million pounds annual salary for entertaining the Hospitality at Old Trafford is certainly well worth protecting.

• I thought he was supposed to be a socialist,ffs?!

 

[Kempstonian]

Football finances have gone mad now. Some players are being paid twice as much in one week than a prime minister of the UK is paid in a year... and I won't even go into the astronomical fees being paid for player transfers.

I wonder what Sky TV is thinking now about all the money they have pumped into football and now are only able to show repeats of old matches and shows with pundits pontificating about which players clubs should buy? Entertaining, not.

 

[Dave7]

Just seen this comment,following this article. ....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52142267

• 1584. Posted bymargaret
  on18 minutes ago
  Unsurprisingly, Alex Ferguson has refused to take a pay cut, for his roll of Club Ambassador for Manchester United. A 3.5 million pounds annual salary for entertaining the Hospitality at Old Trafford is certainly well worth protecting.

• I thought he was supposed to be a socialist,ffs?!

You beat me to it Accy. I was just reading that Spurs among others have laid off virtually all staff to apply for the 80% while the manager and players remain on full pay.
Eddy Howe and others have already taken big pay cuts.

 

[vickster]

Football finances have gone mad now. Some players are being paid twice as much in one week than a prime minister of the UK is paid in a year... and I won't even go into the astronomical fees being paid for player transfers.

I wonder what Sky TV is thinking now about all the money they have pumped into football and now are only able to show repeats of old matches and shows with pundits pontificating about which players clubs should buy? Entertaining, not.

And they're not getting the subs as you can suspend or cancel (as I have).

There is mounting publicity about the prem players taking a 25% paycut (I'm sure they'll survive, even the lowest paid)

 

[MarkF]

Of course I am biased. I support one football team to the exclusion of all others. That's the way it works. It's a game. It's fun.

I love football, never could get enough of it since being taken to Leeds as 5 year old. As soon as I was old enough to get the bus I started going to Bradford City as well, then Huddersfield Town, Halifax Town, Guiseley, Farsley Celtic, the two Harrogate clubs and my local one, Thackley AFC. By the 1980's I had a car and what was normal then, was for friends or football club team mates to get together, choose game and just go, no worries about tickets or sitting together. Simple times. By the late 1980's I was working in Spain and found that it was entirely normal to support more than one team. Clubs there have friend and enemy clubs all over the country with the most unlikely alliances having been formed between fans/clubs.

If pushed I'd plump for Bradford City, but even when I have an ST I don't see many games because every season I will make the effort to see all the above clubs plus Celtic, Stenhousemuir, Sporting Gijon, Real Betis (Seville), Hercules (Alicante) & Malaga. I'd go to Leeds too but haven't been able to get a ticket for while.

Sitting next to a fan who can only "see" his own team does my head in.

 

[matticus]

https://www.timesnownews.com/sports...-leagues-and-want-them-to-be-completed/573285

(I think the UK clubs are looking at playing behind closed doors.)

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Football has got this terribly wrong right now.

Other sports have accepted the inevitable and cancelled iconic events.

Football, on the other hand, seems to be mooting more and more outlandish schemes to keep restart soon, whilst simultaneously laying off low paid workers yet keeping players in the style to which they have become accustomed.

 

[vickster]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52140204

 

[Kempstonian]

https://www.timesnownews.com/sports...-leagues-and-want-them-to-be-completed/573285

(I think the UK clubs are looking at playing behind closed doors.)

From that article... "participation in UEFA club competitions is determined by the sporting result achieved at the end of a full domestic competition " Belgian Club Brugge is 15 points ahead of second-place Gent but still with one game to go. If that game isn't played they will miss out on the CL next season.

So if the Premiership isn't completed, the fight for the top 4 places becomes immaterial and there would be no English clubs in Europe next season - which in turn would devalue those competitions. It won't be just English clubs who will be ineligible.

 

[Kempstonian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52140204

An April 30th restart was never really on was it? I'm quite an optimist but that was beyond me.

 

[vickster]

An April 30th restart was never really on was it? I'm quite an optimist but that was beyond me.

Clearly not

 

[Archie_tect]

https://www.timesnownews.com/sports...-leagues-and-want-them-to-be-completed/573285

(I think the UK clubs are looking at playing behind closed doors.)

Kitchen door and living room door as goalposts...