i have heard yesterday that it is on D+10. that would meen the 18th. but what do i know
Is football cancelled for the next week? | Man United-Leeds & Chelsea-Liverpool postponed
- Thread starter PoTMS
- Start date
Could you fill us in?
Apparently because it was lateish last night today is actually D+0 so it would make it the 19th
Surely they can reverse the PR by having some kind of presentation or minute silence at every game and playing the national anthem
It happens every season when games are rescheduled for whatever reason.
What about the Manchester United fans who protested and had a game postponed last second last year?
They really aren’t. Hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets of London is a semi-regular occurrence. And this can happen at short notice. Look at the BLM protests or the protests related to Brexit, extinction rebellion, poll tax protests, Iraq war protests etc etc etc. None of these ever forced football matches to be cancelled.
And the crowds on the streets this weekend are likely to be much better behaved and less likely to need intensive policing than protestors.
i could spend time explaining to you , but i doubt you have the intellectual capacity to understand
Slightly different given that was one game without fans compared to dozens of games with 1000s of fans and arrangements.
Ok mate, cheers.
Clear link there - Glazers, Manchester United, football.
No link here, Queen, ????
Any time a team makes a quarter or semi final of a cup, a game is rescheduled.
Even from a business point of view the monarchy injects a shit ton into the economy, the same economy that everyone benefits from.
Im happy for people to oppose the monarchy, but doing it in the name of other people losing money is a fallacy
What about games called off for covid last year? Did COVID pay for peoples flights?
So the government has "advised" the chiefs of sports not to go ahead with the next two weekends of sports, so essentially up to the FA.
There will be protests too though? All these other things still go on and others will also take the opportunity to raise grievances with the Royal Family.
I think it’s silly to suggest it will have no impact of policing and numbers.
Queen, England, English premier league. It’s a bloody week off, your life doesn’t depend on there being 90 minutes of football.
That was a public health issue, and a very real one at that.
Aye it's going really well at the min.
I think it's right call to cancel this weekend's games, the government are gently nudging clubs to call the fixtures off so will be brave one to refuse.
They should go ahead the following weekend though (although obviously different for London with the funeral taking place at some point).
12 days of mourning seems very excessive in this day and age, not sure where that's come from considering the protocol had it as 10 so does show there's flexibility and sport resuming should be part of that.
They should go ahead the following weekend though (although obviously different for London with the funeral taking place at some point).
12 days of mourning seems very excessive in this day and age, not sure where that's come from considering the protocol had it as 10 so does show there's flexibility and sport resuming should be part of that.
FA obviously with their backs against the wall now. They'd definitely prefer to go ahead with the games this weekend given the massive scheduling issues but would probably stand out in negative light for the conservative royalist clowns given that the majority of other sports will cancel their events.
There will be 1m + lining the streets around the Abbey/Buckingham Palace so you need basically all of Met to cope with that.
Just look at Diana's funeral in 1997 to see how many were there and for whatever reason wanted to be part of the occasion and see the coffin.
Agree. I think this weekend is perfectly fair and reasonable. Next weekend though, I don't want that Leeds game off.
I think the response has been the same as what you are wanting.
Whoever wants to show their respects, that’s fine. No need for football to be cancelled.
Ok so hypothetical question here, do you think Birmingham will have a gathering for the funeral? Would the police allow a Birmingham derby to go ahead alongside such a gathering?
Manchester United play Leeds. Our second biggest rivals historically and an always fraught affair, do you think GMP will allow that?
Go to work today but you can't do what you enjoy on the weekend. You can go to a restaraunt, pub or theme park though.
Yeah makes total sense.
Public safety? The risk of disorder may be low but terrorism and the like remains a constant when it comes to large public gatherings.
I respectfully disagree. First of all there's no 'English' in the title of the league.
And your comment around my life depending on 90 minutes of football is a typical knee jerk reaction of people who want life to come to a standstill.
An old lady has died - sad. But I'm a football fan, not a Royal Family fan. I'd rather go to a football match this weekend then sit around moping that the Queen has died, why can that not be respected by getting the matches on?
My company gave staff the day off today
It doesn't, can't believe this myth is still being spread.
It's an English league as its played in England. Hope this helps.
People that want it to be cancelled - you can just - not watch it.
Let the rest of us get on with it.
Let the rest of us get on with it.
Not necessarily.
You’re comparing a ongoing global pandemic that killed millions to a 96 year old who’s passed away
Thread mark this
The funeral is at Westminster Abbey. Just image 1m + coming down to London around that day (if it's next Saturday) and all the chaos that would provide in terms of routes being blocked/security. You simply can't have football matches playing in the hours around that day and it's obviously going to be lower down the events list than the funeral.
I don't see the issue around cities playing games 100s of miles away. Guess they'll be big screens erected in public squares but football matches can exist around that.
Pretty sure in some parts a Monday week funeral has been mooted with a bank holiday so think Premier/FA will be secretly crossing their fingers that happens and they can get next weekend's fixtures out of the way.
Sounds as if the rugby league, golf and cricket is on tomorrow, so I'd expect football would be too.
I’m just gonna stop you there, I’m a doctor so my IQ would destroy yours
I wonder if they're waiting for a decision on that. I don't think they'd want to cancel 2 weeks of games in a row and reschedule them around a world cup.
No one would notice if they got called off.