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If all games cannot be completed and voiding has been explicitly ruled out, which it has, then there are only the aforementioned options left - PPG or current placings final.

If you're basing your viewpoint on rules yet to be formally written (and possibly never will be, at least this season) rather than on statements and actions to date (by both the PL and FA) then there is not much else to say except - keep on hoping!
I don't think the season will be voided as such but I think it's still very possible is scrapped and league places decided by other means. It's also possible there's no champions and no relegation or promotion from the football leagues as evidenced in other countries.
 

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United and city would role into the new season on better form.

I think having this what 3 month break, smashing out games, then another break would be more disruptive than just carrying on through.
Yeah potentially start off better but what about when it comes to game 33,34, 35 etc. Fatigue kicks in eventually.

It's an absolute mess.
 

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I don't think the season will be voided as such but I think it's still very possible is scrapped and league places decided by other means. It's also possible there's no champions and no relegation or promotion from the football leagues as evidenced in other countries.
100% it will be voided - its only logical.
 

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That was a glorious game but it obviously never should have gone ahead with a full crowd. It'd blame the city and the club more than the government though.
 

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Liverpool's clash against Atletico Madrid 'led to 41 additional deaths' as government failed to ban fans... while 'Cheltenham Festival has also been linked to 37 coronavirus-related fatalities in data-modelling'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...Atletico-Madrid-led-41-additional-deaths.html
Hmmm, yeah “data modelling”. And how far back do we go to “data modelling” events and directly linking them to deaths. Leicester played Aston Villa the night before. We played Man City three days earlier. How many of our fans were coming in from London? From abroad? How many flights were still going in and out of the U.K. from Madrid at that time? From Manchester airport? are these being “data modelled” And will they then make the papers?

I admittedly dont know much about data modelling but I get the concept. Scientists and experts are still struggling to pin point certain things with this virus. And here the data modelists are telling us that match caused precisely ‘41 deaths’ due to data modelling And Cheltenham caused exactly 38.

They should be more transparent with what this data modelling entailed. Considering all the unknown factors on who attended, where they attended from, how they got there, who actually had it, my head can not comprehend how they can pinpoint 41 deaths exactly, especially as they said it was linked to deaths 30-35 days later.

In hindsight of course the match shouldn’t have gone ahead with fans but putting this out there like that to me doesn’t seem to be for any good reason whatsoever. Who’s it helping, whos it benefiting, it’s not making us learn anything. Even if it’s true, and as tragic as 41 deaths are there’s a whole bigger picture out there with unanswered questions.

One I thing I do know is that for whatever reason this one specific game of football seemed to continually be high up on the list of things people were pinpointing the cause of the outbreak and deaths on so I guess now the ‘evidence’ is there, the outrage and I told you so’s will commence.


That was a glorious game but it obviously never should have gone ahead with a full crowd. It'd blame the city and the club more than the government though.
You don’t think UEFA and the government should have been the ones? Although I guess Liverpool could have banned away fans.
 

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Just had a thought about next season and the issue of possible return of fans midway thru the season. One of the big problems about Project Restart is that for example we played City at Anfield in front of our fans and they will play the reverse in front of no fans (probably not a great example but you get what I mean).

So why not have next season as a series of double headers. So match day 2 is a reverse of match day 1 etc - that will minimise some of the integrity issues. If done properly they could also leave all the big games till the end of the season. Imagine the final run of games being double headers between Liverpool, Utd, City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Wolves, Leicester, Spurs. And that would likely mean that the relegation battling sides would also all be playing each other during the run in. Add in the possibility of fans coming back during this period and it would make for a hell of a seasons end.
This sounds quite fun, but then it leaves the beginning of the season fairly boring, no? One of the most exciting things about the PL is that there’s usually at least one match between two of the top clubs almost every weekend, so there’s always something to look forward to throughout the season. Clustering it near the end would make for a fantastic end, but a boring beginning outside of your own club.
 

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Liverpool's clash against Atletico Madrid 'led to 41 additional deaths' as government failed to ban fans... while 'Cheltenham Festival has also been linked to 37 coronavirus-related fatalities in data-modelling'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...Atletico-Madrid-led-41-additional-deaths.html
:nono:

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@MackRobinson, ever the neutral, will be in here any minute now to justify Liverpool Football Club™ and their self-absorbed actions.

Any minute now...
 

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You don’t think UEFA and the government should have been the ones? Although I guess Liverpool could have banned away fans.
At the very least they should have banned away fans, yes. And I think local health authorities would have been in a much better position to decide that than UEFA.
 

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There's been lots of fair criticism of the club over the lockdown. The furlough incident was grotesque and I called them out on it. However, using the failures of the UK government and Uefa to prevent a game that blatantly should have been BCD to somehow frame the Atletico game as Liverpool's fault is strange.

Both the British and Spanish government allowed the game to go ahead, Uefa allowed the game to go ahead. Is there anyway the club could ban fans from an arena or cancel a game when all the governing bodies above them are saying it's safe (even as we all knew it wasn't). If Uefa want a game to go ahead it'll go ahead. Maybe there's an example to the contrary that I'm unaware of?
 

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There's been lots of fair criticism of the club over the lockdown. The furlough incident was grotesque and I called them out on it. However, using the failures of the UK government and Uefa to prevent a game that blatantly should have been BCD to somehow frame the Atletico game as Liverpool's fault is strange.

Both the British and Spanish government allowed the game to go ahead, Uefa allowed the game to go ahead. Is there anyway the club could ban fans from an arena or cancel a game when all the governing bodies above them are saying it's safe (even as we all knew it wasn't). If Uefa want a game to go ahead it'll go ahead. Maybe there's an example to the contrary that I'm unaware of?
In the case of PSG v Dortmund, Paris police made the decision.
 

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At the very least they should have banned away fans, yes. And I think local health authorities would have been in a much better position to decide that than UEFA.
Come on now, the game was in the beginning of March and the UK was one of the latest West-European countries hit (or at least they were amongst the latest realizing how serious this was). At the time, yes there was already a risk but there's no way the club itself should have made that decision (and they would've been heavily criticized if they banned away fans but allowed home fans). The local authorities, in hindsight could've done better but if you see how their government underestimated this whole thing, how can you reasonably expect the local health authorities to have made the right decision at that time, as uninformed about it as they probably were. Hindsight is 20/20 yes, and Madrid was emerging as a huge infection area at the time, but I still think it's too hard to pinpoint any blame on the club or the local authorities for this one.
 

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Come on now, the game was in the beginning of March and the UK was one of the latest West-European countries hit (or at least they were amongst the latest realizing how serious this was). At the time, yes there was already a risk but there's no way the club itself should have made that decision (and they would've been heavily criticized if they banned away fans but allowed home fans). The local authorities, in hindsight could've done better but if you see how their government underestimated this whole thing, how can you reasonably expect the local health authorities to have made the right decision at that time, as uninformed about it as they probably were. Hindsight is 20/20 yes, and Madrid was emerging as a huge infection area at the time, but I still think it's too hard to pinpoint any blame on the club or the local authorities for this one.
Every other European games was behind closed doors. Liverpool had no excuse and its insulting to feign ignorance
 

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Every other European games was behind closed doors. Liverpool had no excuse and its insulting to feign ignorance
People are easily insulted these days, unfortunately.

Which team made the decision to play BCD itself? If there are any, I will happily admit that they did better than Liverpool in that respect.
 

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People are easily insulted these days, unfortunately.

Which team decided to play BCD itself? If there are any, I will happily admit that they did better than Liverpool in that respect.
Why didn't your club raise concerns with the government regards the safety of the fans before the game kicked off? It's not as if they weren't aware of the threat, Klopp went berserk after a supporter tried shaking his hands as he exited the tunnel.

LASK & United played behind closed doors 24 hours after the 'Liverpool FC value atmosphere above the safety of their fans' scandal.
 

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Why didn't your club raise concerns with the government regards the safety of the fans before the game kicked off? It's not as if they weren't aware of the threat, Klopp went berserk after a supporter tried shaking his hands as he exited the tunnel.

LASK & United played behind closed doors 24 hours after the 'Liverpool FC value atmosphere above the safety of their fans' scandal.
United also played in a full 76k seater stadium 4 days before Liverpool-Atlético, with a number of foreign fans in attendance possibly/probably exceeding the 3.000 Atlético fans in Anfield.

The LASK game was BCD because the Austrian health minister had already announced a ban of events >500 people until mid-April. If that hadn't happened in Austria, there's no way the club itself would've announced it.
 
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Fair enough, the impression I always got from Joe Anderson's comments was that there was pressure above him that meant Merseyside council and police had their hands tied.
While I can see the case for whether the Govt should have given an all-out ban on major events (and maybe banned incoming fans from abroad) I can't see (or have read anything about) Govt/senior officials proactively telling Cheltenham or Liverpool FC to continue with their events. I doubt they'd have been bothered either way? (though should have been)

My understanding is football matches are controlled by local authorities and (mainly?) by police. I can't see how a Labour run council or a major city's police force would take any notice of people pressing them into doing something they weren't ok with. At the very least, they'd have come out at the time and said "against our better judgement, we have been told this game is to go ahead".
 

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United also played in a full 76k seater stadium 4 days before Liverpool-Atlético, with a number of foreign fans in attendance possibly/probably exceeding the 3.000 Atlético fans in Anfield.

The LASK game was BCD because the Austrian health minister had already announced a ban of events >500 people until mid-April. If that hadn't happened in Austria, there's no way the club itself would've announced it.
See, I could believe that of Liverpool. They proved with the furloughing scandal that they value self-gain above the well-being of their fanbase and club associates, but to accuse LASK & United of similar selfish acts is a harsh.
 

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See, I could believe that of Liverpool. They proved with the furloughing scandal that they value self-gain above the well-being of their fanbase and club associates, but to accuse LASK & United of similar selfish acts is a harsh.
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Come on now, the game was in the beginning of March and the UK was one of the latest West-European countries hit (or at least they were amongst the latest realizing how serious this was). At the time, yes there was already a risk but there's no way the club itself should have made that decision (and they would've been heavily criticized if they banned away fans but allowed home fans). The local authorities, in hindsight could've done better but if you see how their government underestimated this whole thing, how can you reasonably expect the local health authorities to have made the right decision at that time, as uninformed about it as they probably were. Hindsight is 20/20 yes, and Madrid was emerging as a huge infection area at the time, but I still think it's too hard to pinpoint any blame on the club or the local authorities for this one.
Nah

You were milking it. It's like hurry up and play this game before the lockdown deadline starts.
 

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EDIT: Shit, I thought they played in Madrid. Definitely UK government to blame most for letting so many fans travel here, what a shocker that is.

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Atletico, the Spanish government, the UK government and UEFA should be blamed before Liverpool IMO. None of them acted quickly when they should have.

Valencia played Atalanta behind closed doors the day before, but that was only because of how badly Italy had been affected. We played at LASK without a crowd but it was only on advice of the Austrian government (good!). Spurs played at Leipzig two days before we did in front of a full crowd (what!). On the same day, it was announced Chelsea would also play in Germany at Bayern behind closed doors, which was scheduled to take place the next week (weird?!).

Overall, it was a weird week with lots of bad decisions. It now looks very messy and unorganized.

Feel free to correct me if any of this is wrong.
 
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Atletico, the Spanish government, the UK government and UEFA should be blamed before Liverpool IMO. Valencia played Atalanta at home behind closed doors the day before which was largely because of how badly Italy had been affected at that point. It seems mad in retrospect that the governing bodies chose to put their heads in the sand but they did. We all know now that Spain was on the cusp of a huge problem, and then us and France a few weeks later.

It was a weird week all round with lots of bad decisions. We played at LASK without a crowd only on advice of the Austrian government rather than UEFA, as did all of the other Europa league teams that Thursday (good!). Spurs played at Leipzig two days day before in front of a full crowd (what!). On the same day, it was announced Chelsea would also play in Germany at Bayern behind closed doors, which was scheduled to take place the next week (weird?!).

Feel free to correct me if any of this is wrong.
From what I can gather from the German posters here and freinds I have out there the policy's in Germany are for the most part regional.

That plus I think Bavaria were in a pretty bad place (for Germany's standards) around the time we were due to be going there.
 

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In fairness I’d blame the government first and foremost because at that time they were faffing around with their decisions and public guidelines. It’s a government ffs, they should have seen a huge event unfolding in Spain. Same with the horse racing. Stuck their herd heads in the sand and allowed free travel
 

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Any minute now...
How the hell can you criticise the people of Liverpool for that? Can you offer an explanation?

Any rational person would lay the blame at the feet of the government.
 

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How the hell can you criticise the people of Liverpool for that? Can you offer an explanation?

Any rational person would lay the blame at the feet of the government.
I think you could blame the club somewhat. I'm pretty sure they could have stated they wanted it BCD much like other European ties that round. Not the actual people of Liverpool though (even if one admitted he went to the game feeding unwell and likely had coronavirus)
 
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In fairness I’d blame the government first and foremost because at that time they were faffing around with their decisions and public guidelines. It’s a government ffs, they should have seen a huge event unfolding in Spain. Same with the horse racing. Stuck their herd heads in the sand and allowed free travel
Some common sense at last.
 

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Atletico, the Spanish government, the UK government and UEFA should be blamed before Liverpool IMO. None of them acted quickly when they should have.

Valencia played Atalanta behind closed doors the day before, but that was only because of how badly Italy had been affected. We played at LASK without a crowd but it was only on advice of the Austrian government (good!). Spurs played at Leipzig two days before we did in front of a full crowd (what!). On the same day, it was announced Chelsea would also play in Germany at Bayern behind closed doors, which was scheduled to take place the next week (weird?!).

Overall, it was a weird week with lots of bad decisions. It now looks very messy and unorganized.

Feel free to correct me if any of this is wrong.
Liverpool were hosting the game. They have some responsibility too. Not sure why Athletico would have more.