be behind closed doors seems the general concensus. But how will playing behind closed doors actually work? Noises coming out of Government that some kind of social distances will probably have to go on until a vaccine is found, which could be anything up to 18 months minimum away.
So bearing in mind there will have to be some kind of social distancing between players, staff, coaches, managers, etc. So with all that in mind how do pre match prep go, how do players warm up? How does the manager give a team talk, how do players walk out onto the pitch? How do captains and officials do a toss up?
Going onto the actual match, their will be physical contact for the whole 90 minutes, so how is it going to work? What happens when a corner is taken, when their are upwards of 15 players all jostling in the penalty area? What happens when a player gets injured? He will need treatment, or worse maybe an ambulance to ferry him to hospital?
Just isn`t going to work in my opinion, and I cannot see the Government giving the go ahead for any team sports whether being closed doors or not.
You could test all players, and those involved in the game, but I would imagine that would be very controversial, when a lot more needy people may need testing a long time before footballers.
Anybody got any solutions to how sport really can resume?
If and when football returns it will
posted on 17/4/20
if its ended as it stands, because some have played less than others, i assume they will take every clubs points per game and add that for each game they have left to give each team a final points tally. which will probably end with a .something which will be weird, but as fair as theyll be able to get it. i think a team would be relegated by 0.1 points in this scenario.
posted on 17/4/20
Breaking:
All games across the Championship, League One and League Two are set to be broadcast live on television or online after the English Football League confirmed matches are almost certain to resume behind closed doors.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/football-league-championship-return-behind-closed-doors-tv-stream-online-a9470056.html
posted on 17/4/20
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Breaking:
All games across the Championship, League One and League Two are set to be broadcast live on television or online after the English Football League confirmed matches are almost certain to resume behind closed doors.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/football-league-championship-return-behind-closed-doors-tv-stream-online-a9470056.html
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Bye bye Leagues one and two 👋
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comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
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Breaking:
All games across the Championship, League One and League Two are set to be broadcast live on television or online after the English Football League confirmed matches are almost certain to resume behind closed doors.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/football-league-championship-return-behind-closed-doors-tv-stream-online-a9470056.html
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Bye bye Leagues one and two 👋
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Nah. Packages will be put together over the next couple of years to offset this.
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So all of a sudden these clubs who've been shunned by the PL down the years, who probably look fearfully at the likes of Stockport, Boston, Halifax, Bury as examples of how little of a sh-t the greedy, cash rich league cares about the future of the wider football community...are they meant to now just believe that anything is going to change for the better? What exactly should they be basing their hope on? Any past examples of game changing amounts of money being handed down and shared fairly through the leagues?
Like the majority of lower league football fans, I'll believe it when it happens.
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posted 18 minutes ago
Breaking:
All games across the Championship, League One and League Two are set to be broadcast live on television or online after the English Football League confirmed matches are almost certain to resume behind closed doors.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/football-league-championship-return-behind-closed-doors-tv-stream-online-a9470056.html
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Bye bye Leagues one and two 👋
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Nah. Packages will be put together over the next couple of years to offset this.
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So all of a sudden these clubs who've been shunned by the PL down the years, who probably look fearfully at the likes of Stockport, Boston, Halifax, Bury as examples of how little of a sh-t the greedy, cash rich league cares about the future of the wider football community...are they meant to now just believe that anything is going to change for the better? What exactly should they be basing their hope on? Any past examples of game changing amounts of money being handed down and shared fairly through the leagues?
Like the majority of lower league football fans, I'll believe it when it happens.
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No examples equate to this. In the past clubs have been mismanaged which has led to their downfall. Why should Prem clubs come in and save them? This is different.
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I'm not saying they should have been given bail outs. I'm saying the general distribution of funds within the game have never been fair. Premier League clubs can and will pay a player more in a week than the amount the Inland Revenue will wind a non league club up for.
And those clubs I listed were not financially mismanaged as such. None of them (with the exception of Bury who had a feckless tosspot in charge) went out on crazy spending sprees or anything like that. Most just can't cope with the financial demands such as rent for their ground, policing costs, etc, and just get swallowed up by running costs. These clubs lose most of their potential local fanbase to the bigger clubs as people seem far happier to support a team through a TV subscription than actually help out their hometown club. People can support who they want and spend on what they want, it's a free country, but these same people tend to be the ones who then say how sad it is that x or y club have gone to the wall. I've been on many away days to clubs who seem on the outside to be doing ok, then you get there and all around the ground there are volunteers shaking buckets and you realise just how hard these clubs have it.
It is what it is, but when you see a lazy tw-t like Mesut Ozil put in another half-assed performance that nets him £300k for 90mins "work", whilst some 85 year old lifelong season ticket holder at Exeter sits in his seat not even sure that his club will be there in 12 months time, you start to realise how unfair and hideously unbalanced the whole thing is.
And as I say, nobody ever pretends to give a sh-t until it's far too late.
posted on 17/4/20
Sandy, in response to your on-field problems with distancing between players, do you think football could be played in Hasmet suits?
Afterall, American football is already played in protection gear that is not too far removed from that. But of course, they only play in 30 second bursts with 5 mins rest in between!
Since Hasmet suits are cumbersome, perhaps the rules could be changed to allow 15 players per side?
Just a thought ...
posted on 18/4/20
Just get all footballers to where a face mask, problem solved...
posted on 18/4/20
Everyone saying closed doors isn't football...ffs get a grip. It's through necessity and tbh I'd love nothing more than ANY half decent game to watch atm.
We are talking about an age where a gay guy with a mullet and a few tigers has taken the globe by storm...
P.'s f*ck Carol Baskins