Tell that to the BBC. I said that statement on Friday (admittedly I did mean the Prem) , but I was accused of making it up. I patently haven't. And tbf, you (and others) are quite happy to quote them when it suits you, but not when it doesn't. as said, consistently inconsistent.
TEAMS!? ffs, I thought you meant that lass who went and fought for ISIS! Try and be a bit a clearer, feller.
So Belgium scrap their league, Holland scrap their league yet UEFA do nothing? We have used VAR different to most leagues yet UEFA do nothing? Do you see where i am going here, leagues run themselves between their members, UEFA have less control over this than you seem to think.
If a league cancels its season, but then awards European places on current standings (or a PPG calculation), whilst simultaneously ignoring relegation and promotion positions, then personally I think that would leave them open to a meaningful legal challenge. As they’d be handing out awards based on an incomplete table, whilst choosing not to reward teams in lower leagues on the same basis.
Me? I quoted the BBC saying that UEFA had effectively taken null and void off the table. I know it's not what you want to hear, but, er, don't shoot the messenger's messenger, as it were. I'm sure if you contact UEFA they'll listen to your totally balanced and unbiased view that they should go back as far as suits your agenda. I mean fair solution.
Evening Tobes. Your'e someone i might get a reasonable answer from to this question. How do they calculate PPG, do they take into account home/away games and the level of teams left to play or just divide the present points by 29? If the latter then they may as well just give everyon 1 point for each game left to play and **** all will change.
Without getting into the rest of your comment just on that first point, a league can't cancel unless one of 2 things happens: the government gets involved in terms of stating a date for recommencement or insurmountable financial problems exist.
Well, as we've now seen in Holland, legal professors of sporting law reckon they're open to a successful challenge there. There doesn't seem to be any way out of this except playing the remaining games that isn't open to legal redress, and even that could be argued that some teams have had more home games than others. The idea that null and void is legally copper-bottomed is null and void in itself now.
I suppose there’s 2 ways of doing it. Firstly merely using an average of points won per game multiplying that by the number of games left et voila. In the PL the only side who’d move places in that scenario would be Sheff U moving up a place. The other way would be to split it between home and away averages i.e. average number of points earned at home multiplied by the number of home games left and then the same for away.
I was thinking it should be the second to keep any kind of consistency but even that would not take into account the quality of teams already played/left to play both home and away but it's better than the 1 point per game i have seen mentioned. It's a right royal **** up
To balance things out though, I did read a report somewhere (sorry I can't be more accurate than that atm) that the Prem are considering no promotions into them on the basis, dig this, that the teams that have come up in the last decade have generally financially struggled to stay up. They seem to think that they can successfully counter any loss of earnings claim from Leeds or WBA. Hmm. I think Leeds in particular has a worldwide fan base (I was surprised how many Irish fans they've got), and they're just ready to explode into the middle of the table, every bit as well as Sheff U have done.
The PL are going to find a way of playing it out, however clumsy and unsatisfactory that ends up being. Barring clubs being struck down with infections again, I think it’s now a given. Their prime interest is the ££££. My point was in the wider context of Europe where a number of leagues won’t complete, but they’re going to asked to make European place merit awards based on an incomplete season.
