They’re not even remotely similar though. As the Jan window and the ability to change managers are just part of the rules of the season, known at the start. Injuries, suspensions and form are just part of the game. Completely different to sides losing the potentially crucial home advantage during the run in, if you’re a club that’s fighting for your life in the division. Bad enough that if we restart the league there’ll be no fans present, but teams also losing the psychological benefit of their home grounds surroundings and the familiarity that brings, is just wrong. I can’t believe anyone pretends not to understand that tbh. Anyway, you reds have said playing at home grounds isn’t an issue, as no fans will turn up outside, as you all got upset when Big Joe said that you would. So, what’s the issue with using home grounds?
If a club lost the use of their home stadium for the final 9 games of the season due to an earthquake or other natural disaster would we scrap relegation?
Or an asteroid strike? Or a localised nuclear explosion? Is that really an attempt at an actual argument from you?
For whatever reason. Would the entire relegation and promotion system be scrapped because a team didn't get to change in their own locker room?
Oh please, just stop. As there’s no reason why PL grounds couldn’t be used for games now, as safely as central venues, other than, the possibility of fans rocking up outside.
Premier League restart: Clubs hope season can be finished at own stadiums Premier League chief executive Richard Masters: "Everybody would prefer to play home and away if at all possible...No-one has suggested relegation not being in play"; PL clubs also vote to allow contract extensions for players whose current deals exhttps://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11986600/premier-league-restart-clubs-hope-season-can-be-finished-at-own-stadiumspire on June 30
So, to be clear - if we start the next season behind closed doors and with the restrictions we have now, we have to finish it next year under the same restrictions, even if there are medical and/or technological advances that may deem some of them unnecessary?
I read from Fat Joe's statement that any football played anywhere at any time by anybody would result in fans turning up in mobs outside their home grounds, like they do anyway when their team is playing away from home. Oh, wait.. No, but, er, he does mean every team doesn't he, or is he just saying this is a specific 'Redshite' phenomena?
Oh right, so you’re saying that Kopites wouldn’t do it, but fans of other clubs would, I see. Somewhat hypocritical given how upset you all got with Joe suggesting it’d happen, based on no evidence.
Joe said that LFC fans would break the lockdown with no evidence. Only recently he #backpedaled to claim it was about all fans.
Joe: “Even if it was behind closed doors, there’d be many thousands of people who would turn up outside Anfield. There’s not many people who would respect what we were saying and stay away from the ground, a lot of people would come to celebrate so I think it’s a non-starter.” That's a targeted attack on a single set of fans.
I don't regard any criticism of Joe as coming from a unified, homogeneous blob, but, like null and void, I think hypocrisy and self-interest are not the single domain of anyone holding a viewpoint on this subject. So I'll say again - is Joe claiming that fans turning up at stadiums when matches are being played elsewhere behind closed doors specific to Liverpool fans? If so, based on what evidence? If not, the implication is that football cannot be played again at the highest level until we're back to full, pre-coronavirus status. Surely that is the logical outcome of what he's saying? And that follows on from the post I made further up the thread - surely we can't start next season until we know it will end under the same conditions? So, if we start in October behind closed doors and we play City away that month, then towards the end of the season (say July because it started late) at Anfield in front of, say, a 25% crowd, would City not be able to say 'That's unfair - our home advantage was diluted' (maybe City was not the best example)? Is that not the (legitimate?) Brighton argument now? Think Joe wants to be careful what he wishes for. The commercial influx of tens of thousands of fans coming to the city to watch games each weekend, even if we have to wait for next Spring, might be something desperately needed by then - pity to have painted himself into a corner because, God forbid, he just couldn't stand the idea of Liverpool fans celebrating.
He’s the Mayor of Liverpool. Also, the pair of you have deflected away from the actual point. If fans turning up at grounds isn’t a problem at all, as you maintain, then why not just use home grounds?
