Aren’t we paying most of his wages anyway?
Send him on loan to gillingham and we pay 100% of his wages for all I care just keep him away.
Minor irritant in the grand scheme of things!
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Send him on loan to gillingham and we pay 100% of his wages for all I care just keep him away.
Minor irritant in the grand scheme of things!
This is just irresponsible. Let's assume the worst case scenario, he'll now be going back to the locker room with whatever he might have contracted. The leagues will definitely be suspended to save players because they certainly can't take care of themselves
Unfortunately I think they will try to force the games through until it's a mathematical certainty, then end the league there. They are just hoping they can drag it out for another two or three weeks.
Everton need to beat Liverpool...
Have you not read the thread at all?
There are more than champions to be decided. Relegation matters too.
Well, what I assume they will/would do is essentially make it unlawful to play sporting events within a particular time-frame, or until they advise it is safe to do so. They wouldn't 'cancel' the league for a number of reasons, not least that they might be assuming some responsibility, or rendering themselves liable for some or all of the financial losses (i.e. clubs sue the PL and PL sues the state). They won't legislate for anything specific that deals with private contractual rights or obligations, rather they'll just put in place measures that constructively might have the same effect, without putting them in the crosshairs.
Already been posted. But yeah, crazy stuff.
The game in Paris also shows how pointless it is to close the arenas without also imposing curfew. Thousands of fans stuffed together outside the stadion, instead of inside, does not make much of a difference.
Some of it, but why? It's all speculation at this point, but what happens in Serie A is probably what will happen to the PL in 2 weeks or so.
Yeah weird how people think the PL only care about crowning champions, there's so much more at stake than simply that. It's not just who finishes 1st that matters.
We really need Everton to do a number on the Vermin next Monday to put pressure on the authorities that the league isn’t simply ‘one game away from being decided’. A Liverpool loss there and suddenly a further fortnight needed to settle the title and by that stage, the whole of Europe could be on lockdown.
Don’t feck this up, you bottling, blue bastards.
Don’t feck this up, you bottling, blue bastards.
Yeah first is almost irrelevant.
There's 100s of millions at stake for the teams that will get relegated/promoted.
Each team captain plays as their team on FIFA or Pro Evo (home team chooses the game) and we play out the season that way.
Harry Maguire strikes me as a bit of a "Not really that into computer games" type. We'd end up being relegated after he was disqualified for trying to eat his controller and then asking the ref did he have Tetris.
Make Lingard temp captain?
A season in the Championship wouldn't be so bad, on second thoughts.
Well said, a football club and fanbase totally devoid of morals.
Absolutely correct.
Yeah, absolutely this - I lost any tiny bit of pity for them after this. So fecking selfish and got exactly what they deserved, fecking idiots.
Simply this, see above.
Will never happen. Everton shouldn't even be considered a 'derby' for Liverpool anymore as they simply offer nothing, ever, against them. They will roll over quicker than you can say 'la'.
As I said earlier, Pickford will be smothering his gloves in baby oil as we speak.
Even if you get to a point where you get the three teams mathematically relegated, with Liverpool mathematically Champions at 31 games played, those last 7 games could mean an extra £10m to a team finishing 7th instead of 15th if they had the chance to play out the season, it would open the league up to all sorts of lawsuits.
Season should be void.
Season should be void.
Precisely.
The issue isn't with the PL champions which is all but done and dusted, it's with the teams fighting for or against relegation and European places. The FA has already commented on this.
They should probably just hand the championship to the most recent team to beat the current holders in all honesty. Like a cup final.
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DO IT FOR US IGHALO. The chosen one.
Season ticket holders only can stream games? Seems a bit odd that.
Won't their gaffs just be full of people thus missing the entire pt?
He's probably hammered in a pub in Cannock at the moment, he's been irrelevant for ages now. Will see what comes of the COBRA meeting tomorrow.
Are you saying Stan Collymore does not have access to the top levels of government?
No games in pubs? Catering industry is already suffering from significant financial difficulties and that was without the coronavirus. I struggle to see how they'll close the pubs for football when it's one the biggest enticements to go to the pub.
Perhaps a government official left the report on his car seat and Stan was loitering around, up to his old tricks.
I'm not entirely sure. I do know he still does call Collymore from his bedroom and people call his landline
I think the suggestion is they'd ban televising games in pubs, rather than close them. How in the world they'd police that is another matter.
Behind closed doors worked for one match day in Italy before the inevitable. Daft to suggest they will try to keep it going like this. Even without any sort of crowd you are still looking at a few hundred people travelling to the game.
That's not acceptable.
It's all well and good keeping the fans separated but what about the players, does their health not enter the equation? The 22 players out there on the pitch are just as much at risk as the rest of us.
Also, what's to stop thousands upon thousands of fans congregating outside the stadium as the game is being played?
Cancel the PL until further notice. It's the only logical solution at this point.
Players are as much at risk as supporters to be infected.
No point of closed door games.
Cancel the league!
No point of closed door games.
Cancel the league!
Tomorrow's Times goes along with what Stan says. If number of cases hits 500+ (likely to be tomorrow) then decision will be made whether league will be BCD. No chance of postponing fixtures.