.......seems risky yeah. Barca are at a point where they need to make the right managerial decision and I'm not sure this is it. Seems to have been done quickly and going the ex player route?.......we'll see.
He’ll only be there a year anyway. Get a years pay off and the new president is bringing in xavi next season
Hasn't someone posted the leaked first day fixtures. We're away to West Ham. Has there been any recent news about fans coming back?
Not heard mate, I just found this on the Saints board. Rumour has it MU and Citeh won't have to play the first round fixtures due to 'European fatigue' #snigger
most recent news was the test events were pushed back so cannot see anything but the at earliest mid oct timeline proposed by the Govt has slipped further back .
Every year tbh there have been leak, and leak which have been one hundred percent inaccurate so far. Interesting to see our fixture tomorrow.
think the "leak" is normally one of the test runs to ensure the computer modelling of the agreed format i.e. no games to close together etc has worked .
Was it the Charity Shield they were originally hoping to use as a test for letting fans back? I can't see fans being back en masse for a long time. Some of the European and US clubs have let in a smaller number well spread out. Not heard of any adverse effects from doing that. I can see clubs starting fan lotteries as to who gets to go.
If they can't keep the virus from spiking with people visiting houses and going to bars and pubs, I can't see how there's any chance of it being kept subdued if they allow crowds into stadiums, of course they might just think screw it because of the economic implications and they want the money, but other than that I think we might go a whole season with no fans in, that would seem sensible really
Even if the leak is the "actual" the FA can alter it, so that they are not going to be classified as not been efficient.
fairly sure that was never signed off by the DCMS committee who set the agreed protocols , which they have already complained are regularly breached during games , but was a proposal from the football side . Football at the top level will be one of the later sports imo with one obvious early one being county cricket since so few normally go it is always socially distanced
From what I can gather the spikes are in deprived areas amongst the ethnic minority groups and are family spread rather than community spread with multiple new cases within the same household accounting for the spikes in those areas. I don't know if any of this would be relevant to fans distancing in a stadium. I'm not saying it wouldn't, I just don't know. So much uncertainty.
BBC today have an article about non league clubs in 7th tier and below being given the go ahead to have fans back in. There is a distinction between recreational sport and elite sport where "pilots will be required before an intended expansion from 1 October". I reckon we will look to Germany again to see what they do.
Good news that. Clubs at that level would be completely ****ed without supporters and i can't see that a couple of hundred at a non league club is any more risky than a pub. Also means I should be able to go see my local NL club within a month or two
Yes I agree. Clubs are desperate to get the fans back to start making money again otherwise they'll just fold which would be awful for each individually but also for football as a whole. I used to go to South Liverpool every now and again before they folded and the club house got burned down. I admire everyone who's trying to get the game back up.
