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Premier League 2019-2020 we’re off

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As it's being proposed, by the time it comes to the season finishing, its likely pubs,clubs and restaurants will be reopened aswell as other leisure facilities.

Fans gathering shouldn't be the main reason for neutral grounds.
Fair point. It was a couple of weeks ago when I heard that and things have moved on.
 
are you actually just trying to wind people up or not able to think it through fully?
No, it's an honest response. Where will it end, teams taking legal action because this team or that team has players now available who werent before due to injury or other reasons, players possibly out of contract or end of loan. It's a legal minefield that only lawyers, barristers and the like will win.
There is no fair way out, so just call it done finishing the leagues as they are and take all the risks from playing games away.
 
No, it's an honest response. Where will it end, teams taking legal action because this team or that team has players now available who werent before due to injury or other reasons, players possibly out of contract or end of loan. It's a legal minefield that only lawyers, barristers and the like will win.
There is no fair way out, so just call it done finishing the leagues as they are and take all the risks from playing games away.
There is no fair way out so let's use the least fair solution possible? :unsure:
 
No, it's an honest response. Where will it end, teams taking legal action because this team or that team has players now available who werent before due to injury or other reasons, players possibly out of contract or end of loan. It's a legal minefield that only lawyers, barristers and the like will win.
There is no fair way out, so just call it done finishing the leagues as they are and take all the risks from playing games away.

And that option wouldnt create legal issues either???????
 
has anyone asked Duckworth and Lewis if they can work out a formula?
Sadly Mr Lewis recently died, this is genuine by the way, as otherwise it would have been resolved to everyones satisfaction. If Mr Duckworth was left to do it alone then all sorts of nonsense could happen. There needs to be balance in The Force.
 
And that option wouldnt create legal issues either???????
Of course it would potentially, but I'm thinking about peoples health and well being and the ability to start next season on time and without further complications. Sadly there isn't any answer that doesn't impact on everyone one way or another,:)
 
Of course it would potentially, but I'm thinking about peoples health and well being and the ability to start next season on time and without further complications. Sadly there isn't any answer that doesn't impact on everyone one way or another,:)
Next season can be shortened / cancelled .
We just finish this one when safe to.
 
Of course it would potentially, but I'm thinking about peoples health and well being and the ability to start next season on time and without further complications. Sadly there isn't any answer that doesn't impact on everyone one way or another,:)
Why on earth would it be more important to start next season 'on time' than to finish a season that's 80% through with everything up in the air? Next season can start whenever but there are unresolved issues here.

You can radically alter a season that hasn't even begun because it will be the same for everybody for all of their games. But you can't radically alter the season now when it's 80% played because that's impossible to do fairly.
 
Next season is just that "NEXT"...finish this season whenever and then plan for the following one. Can't see why it couldn't pretty much run from the end of this one as won't be a need for a break for players.

I just wish any talk of a return to professional sport would quieten down until it's appropriate - still seems unseemly to me when so many are dying and suffering still.
 
Next season is just that "NEXT"...finish this season whenever and then plan for the following one. Can't see why it couldn't pretty much run from the end of this one as won't be a need for a break for players.

I just wish any talk of a return to professional sport would quieten down until it's appropriate - still seems unseemly to me when so many are dying and suffering still.
I agree on both points, no rest time needed before it restarts, maybe just a week and then go. They are having their extended break right now. And I don't know why talk of football seems to have ramped up this past week when it still seems a long way off being safe to play.
 
Would raise an interesting question how does the championship restart with Wales still on lockdown when both Swansea and Cardiff are part of the setup..

...there are plenty over here wanting them to join the League of Wales and not play in England. But of course they are sat on their bums in Cardiff and tend not to watch football! :-)

I cannot believe that it is ok to play football at the mo. If it wasnt for Sky waiting on a rebate, the season would have been cancelled long since.... or deferred for a long as needed.
 
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