All Football matches in England to be played behind closed doors. Could take effect as early as today. | Times report

[Tom Cato]

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-as-part-of-coronavirus-crisis-plan-h8bcxm2bj
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/coronavirus-premier-league-matches-to-21678802
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/12/prem...ed-doors-event-coronavirus-lockdown-12385743/

 

[DRM]

Makes sense

 

[dwd]

Hours old tweet and was discussed last night at length

 

[Bojan11]

Old news.

Now that La Liga has suspended their leagues more pressure will be on us to suspend rather than closed doors as we saw with PSG last night it does not work.

Merseyside Derby is not going to be closed doors. Fans will be outside the stadiums.

 

[Judas]

This is kind of old news already is it not? Bit mad when it was only from last night, but with this situation changing so quickly, I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't even the case by the end of the day and season is completely put on hold.

 

[Shane88]

Such bullshit. Everywhere else is suspending games but the Premier League have to be different again.

 

[Offside]

They ought to just postpone it rather than do that.

 

[Nou_Camp99]

This is simply not going to work either because we're getting news of players and club staff getting positive results now. Games will be suspended entirely soon fans or no fans.

Season over? Could be.

 

[Pexbo]

Maybe close this thread until it's actually confirmed? The timing of the thread gave the impression it was the outcome of the COBRA meeting.

 

[robinamicrowave]

Suspend the season. Move the Euros to next year. Pick up the season again when the outbreak has calmed down.

 

[Rafaeldagold]

It makes the competition unfair for the home team being behind closed doors & reduces the spectacle to nothing really.

Either has to be postponed or carry on I think

 

[Bojan11]

It makes the competition unfair for the home team being behind closed doors & reduces the spectacle to nothing really.

Either has to be postponed or carry on I think

How is it unfair? Worked for city in the last decade.

 

[Offside]

Suspend the season. Move the Euros to next year. Pick up the season again when the outbreak has calmed down.

Yep. Even if it means the players get less of a Summer bread that can be worked out. They would be able to break during the suspension.

 

[Pexbo]

Suspend the season. Move the Euros to next year. Pick up the season again when the outbreak has calmed down.

Nothing really to pick up at this point. The league will become a dud with registered players out of contract and transferring to other sides. By all means finish the cups but the league can just be forgotten at this point. Give the UCL spots to last years qualifiers and allow the winner of this years Europa League to qualify for the UCL in place of the banned Man City.

 

[jojojo]

This was under discussion last night https://www.redcafe.net/threads/cou...l-due-to-the-coronavirus.453544/post-25393000

I'm closing this until we actually get some news.