Let's Call The Whole Thing Off?

In 1962/63 Frank McLintoch was part of the Leicester side dubbed the Ice Kings and he remembers one of the coldest winters of the 20th century.

Despite admitting he thought the winter of all winters would never end, McLintock believes the current delay in the football calendar due to coronavirus is far more concerning than the 12 week delay back then.

He said: “Coronavirus is far more dangerous than a bit of snow or frost. This is something that is impacting the entire globe."

#justsaying

 

Completely ridiculous comparison. As you’ve taken the entire number of league games cancelled across the league pyramid and compared it with the PL this season. That season was completed on the 11th May...

UEFA will ultimately decide whether the current season completes, as if they void the current CL / EL and state the new competition starts as usual (pandemic permitting). Then the PL is done love.

Better get Krusty Kenny and the rest of the RS PR machine to start lobbying UEFA bro. Good luck.

 

PL have already decided to complete

 

Nope, they’ve reiterated their desire to complete, and have removed the cut off date of June 1st from their rules, for the latest possible completion of the season.

The ultimate decision now sits with UEFA once the date the PL has set for resumption continues to slip until disrupting next season is the only way of completing this one.

 

UEFA: "The priority should be to finish the current seasons."

No one (who matters) cares to start the next season before finishing this one.

 

Liverpool winning the league will never be the same now, it's tainted. Imagine celebrating the win of a mere bit of silverware, while dead bodies will be lining our morgues and churches. Risking your life at Anfield when a single cough could end your life, lining the streets for an open bus tour, while loved ones are still waiting to be buried. Now of course I wouldn't want to deny Liverpool their moment of glory while black crosses are being painted on doors

 

Of course the current priority remains completion of the current season. However, whether that ends up being practical or not, depends on when football can resume, either behind closed doors or as it should be.

The idea that the priority to complete the current season remains ad infinitum is for the birds.

 

They didn't say "current priority" though did they, so you're putting words into their mouths and then speculating about the meaning of those words. Pretty desperate TBH.

 

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Sums you up perfectly

 

Nope, wrong again. Their reiterating the desire to complete, is of the present, and so it is their current position.

Desperate you say? Yeah you patently are love, as you’re trying to use semantics to avoid discussing the actual realities of the matter.

 

Yeah, except they didn't call it a "desire" they called it "the priority".

 

Yet more pointless semantics.

 

What astro has deliberately avoided saying is that the quote he stated is by Lars-Christer Olsson (head of european clubs) in response to UEFA president Alexander Ceferin saying it is absolutely not the organisation’s advice to end domestic seasons now and hand the current leader the league title.

‘I’ve saw and heard some again fake news that UEFA will advise leagues to finish the championships now and decide that the winners are the ones who are number one now,’ Ceferin said at a UEFA meeting on Tuesday. ‘I can say that it’s not true. Our goal is to finish the leagues and we didn’t recommend anything like that to any association or any league.’

Lars-Christer Olsson then responded by saying "The priority should be to finish the current seasons."

More importantly he then added...

‘Some countries are saying that if you stop the competition in the middle you cannot have a winner and relegation and promotion. ‘There may be a financial penalty if you do that as the number of matches is very important in media contracts.

‘But if that does happen then everybody has to make their contribution to the situation, including rights holders.’

Astro does make me laugh though

 

I do wonder what the LiVARpool supporters would have been saying if the current crisis had occurred last year when Man City were in the process of winning their domestic treble and the season was in danger of being null and void
Would they be saying the League must be finished at the expense of the cup competitions or the Champions league must be completed at the expense of the the Premier league competition

 

Let's draw a line under this. Liverpool can just have the title and the FA Cup can be given to the team to have scored the most goals so far in it.

 

They’d have been completely consistent in their stance, as their sole interest is the integrity of the competition.

Honest.

 

As long as the Europy is given to the team that's won the most and scored the most

 

In fairness to Liverpool I don't understand why everyone is assuming they are looking after their self interests trying to have the title gifted to them.

In almost 30 years of the Premiership they've never shown much interest in winning it before.

 

Whether Liverpool should or should not be champions is not going to be a real part of the decision I reckon.

Lower league looking at a legal challenge so legal issues might well force the season to be finished eventually. If the season is null, then you cant promote teams from the championship and not give the title out for the PL, so no 22 team season next year, that would be a huge legal fight maybe?

 

No real legal battle if no one loses or gains and everyone re-sets to where they were. You can't just bestow promotion or relegation on teams wit 27-30 points to play for.