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If the season finishes on 29 games though Man City will be 25 points behind with 1 game in hand, can't see them getting 25 points from that?
what do you expect?! I expect t-shirts next. Utter twonks.
I agree.
Earlier, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told the country's national assembly, while addressing plans to ease the lockdown in France that had been put in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic, that "the 2019-20 season of professional sports, including football, will not be able to resume" before September.
Liverpool mayor fears ‘farcical’ scenes if Premier League resumes
I hope that Niall will be around if they are 'given - handed - gifted' the title.
Nah. That's written into French rules. That's not the reason why they've done that.
Liverpool (at Home).
Good luck trying to keep a bunch of young lads from messing around together in a hotel.
Seems like the fairest thing to do though if the season can't be finished?
What is wrong with them? For a big club they are astonishingly bad at PR. That reads like "we are really busy with helping with the Coronavirus but just to let you know we still deserve the league title and our Mayor is wrong"
It's only fair if you mirror this throughout the leagues. You can't just give it Liverpool but not reward others.
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Table as it stands or ppg.
To be fair it surely makes sense to give it every chance, and try and come up with innovative ways for this to happen, everyone knows the repercussions will be massive if it all goes wrong, but likewise it'd be a feather in the cap for English football if they get it right, and without any undue strain on outside resources in doing so.
The French have a written rule they have to crown a winner in the event of a stoppage. No other country does
Like the majority of unions, it’s self interest before their members.
City will not be kicked out this year with everything that is going on and even then, questions need to be asked whether the competition will be played at all. All in all, 5th wouldn't do it for you, like it will not do it for MU either.
I sometimes question if my visceral hatred of the Dippers is toxic/illogical as I am a pretty easy going person in real life. However, when things like this pop up, which the always invariably do with the Dippers, I am always reassured that I am not unhinged.
When have the arrogant English ever followed anyone else?
for a start we would be out of sync with the rest of Europe. That option, whilst ridiculous for many reasons is without doubt now off the table.
Why wont they be kicked out? If anything, a delayed start to CL works against them.
That's the part that isn't really getting explained to me either.
One, Closure.
This is disgraceful. I hope the season gets voided and they don't win the league now. I was almost feeling sorry for them. This just reminded how wrong is that.
Either they are plain idiots when it comes to PR
they honestly have the worst PR dept in football. Suarez, furlough, this. They honestly have no clue.
i thought it was taking money off the taxpayer
Didn't claim it as fact mate. If you read the bottom you'd have seen that.
We were also favourites to go down and we continued to defy the odds all season. I was commenting on if the season couldn’t be played out and how we had the issue of having one less game played than the majority of the table.
I just do not see how CAS hears their appeal in time. As I have said elsewhere, you cannot ban them first and have the possibility of them winning an appeal. Otherwise it is like executing a death row prisoner then finding out on appeal a month later that they were innocent.
Yes, that is true. However, as I have said above, I just do not see a way that City get banned for 2020/21. UEFA want confirmation by end of August (I think the 29th) so I just do not see how CAS will hear it in time with the backlog and if that is the case then all SU miss out on is Ropey League automatic qualification vs play off qualification. However, Ropey League always appears to be a poisoned chalice for teams like SU as it doesn't pay enough for you to get higher quality players and you have to play so many games plus Thurs/Sun which seems to have some sort of psychological hit. I mean even Burnley who are a pretty stable PL club now had a tough time last year managing it and they have a lot more experience of playing in the PL.
Highly likely IMO.
I can see why you’d say that, but we are used to playing more games a season anyway and more importantly our medical team is extraordinarily good so I don’t see it as a problem personally.
