That doesn't add up. Starting the next season in November requires a big re-organisation of next season. If we cannot get going until November both seasons are affected regardless.
That's based on the assumption we resume business as normal from July. That's very unlikely to happen.
Surely not for an entire year though? The government definitely won't be willing to screw the economy up for that long, it's not just the clubs and players but all other staff too and all related businesses right down to the burger stalls outside the ground.
I don't disagree, but lets assume that we have to wait 6 months, then there is a damn good chance we lose clubs any way to bankruptcy, or clubs go into administration and they let 90% of players go, and the league cannot be played out anyway.
Yeah I don't think we will shut down for a whole year either, but it wont be that long, before the whole thing goes into free fall, say 6 months without mass sporting events for the football economy to fail and club go pout of business I would think.
The season could be started in November, there may not be any European competition so the league fixtures could be condensed to finish by May. I assume they will cull the domestic cups as well. It would work.
True. Likely to affect clubs in lower leagues more than the top tier. But that impacts next season too if clubs no longer exist, so one option is no better or worse than the other.
It's an option. Might suit English clubs who are much less reliant on European competition for their revenues, whereas clubs from other countries could go under without European football as they don't have the massive TV deal to fall back on.
I think the assumption was we could return by June, with people realising that day by day this may not happen, then people start to think what are the alternatives. When the alternative is to cancel/truncate next year too, I don't see clubs going for that.
No. For 2 reasons:
It's not 3 in a row if it's not 3 years in a row. 2019 season voided will always be on record not omitted as if it didn't happen. Fergie has won 3 years in a row twice.
How can you disregard the achievement if it wasn't even possible to win 3 in a row. He'd have literally done all he could, no? He's won the three titles in a row that he was capable of winning.
People are still traveling from country to country now.
I am disregarding it, because they were 25 points behind the 1st position.
I think things might become a little clearer come the end of April/early May. We're obviously going to see a big upturn in cases, & sadly, deaths, over the next 2 to 3 weeks. But after that, if the experts on social distancing are right, then we should start to see a steady decline in the numbers. It'll probably be around then that the government might be able to relax this lockdown so a little bit of normality - with restrictions - might come back in. I imagine only then will the footballing hierarchy be able to discuss what's the best way forward for Europe's major leagues.
Well the issue being that if those clubs no longer exist (I think there are a couple of PL ones that are iffy too), then how do you "finish" the season? Give those teams who have yet to play them a bye? If we are at that point (with lost clubs). I think we would have to revisit the whole league structure, and plan from new, which I think would be easier than trying to finish without all the clubs. Its possible that they are given some kind of parachute to "stay alive". I think they will certainly try to finish, but I just don't think they would want to lose a whole season because of it (if thats the choice).
Of course not. If City win next year then they won two in a row and then the next season nobody won it, and then the following season they got their third.
If the ban gets upheld which would mean widespread approval that City benefited from breaking the rules, you just put an asterisks next to all of their achievements anyway.
Things change quickly.
It should be remembered it's the lower leagues of non league. Not the lower leagues of pro football.
How do you know every team wants to finish it? Do you think all the players are wanting to risk infection to finish it? People don't seem to realize what is going on when they talk about finding a way, they are burning corpses on mass in Italy right now, Spain is getting worse, the infection rate here is rising, finding a way to finish the league season is bottom of the barrel in importance, especially when you risk further widespread infection through trying to finish it.
Every team did when it still seemed plausible to finish the season before summer was out. If it becomes apparent that there's no way to start playing again before August - entirely possible - and that it would mean not finishing next season until after the Euros too, I suspect a lot of views will change.
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Good call. They could also stop some of the international friendlies. Play once instead of 2 games in 5 days. Turn the world cup and European championship to full knockout so max games the players play in a 32 team event would be 5. Cut them down to 2 weeks instead of 4
That is the worst possible solution(apart from cancelling next season to make space for the current).
