Winter News

She would have been lynched if she had said anything different.

 

Been announced that football is now locked down until the 30th of April.

 

Yes we take it but its not easy for us to bank that as we get charged £12 per thousand for cash so its easier for us to take a card or online. We then have to get to the bank only one in the city now and park it takes more time ..times have changed ..

 

Simple Joe just hand it on to your suppliers in part payment.

 

It seems to me that reviewing the situation at the end of April will only bring more postponement.....are we not being told that this virus could be peaking more in June/July time.

By then surely many EFL teams will be decimated by players going down with the virus....you only need one player to be effected in a squad for that squad to be put into isolation..... and therefore that team unable to fullfil it's fixture until maybe August/September.....and that is when the 2020/21 season should be under way.

That then might mean that the EFL....and also the Premiership will have possibly only two options.

1.....To make void the 2019/20 season and start afresh hopefully in August with a new season.....the problem there is that Liverpool have already won the Premier League....no side can be expected to catch them....and Liverpool surely can't capitulate and hardly win another point or two ?....so erasing the present season would be rather difficult.....and also I cannot see the PL and the EFL coming up with different solutions on how to end the 2019/20 season.....so making void this season will probably not happen.

2.....The other solution (those chasing for promotion wouldn't agree) is to end the season now and accept the present positions as final.....the problem there is teams in play-off positions.... what happens to them....do we promote the team highest in the league after automatic promotion gets the spot....difficult decision to make.

I suspect the league sponsors and players commitments to their contracts will control whatever decisions are made.

June 30th is the most significant date to end the season on.....that's when players contracts run out....kit sponsors also....sponsorship in general probably work to that date as well.....and remember we're being told that June/July will be the peak of this epidemic.

 

All depends on the virus but to me it seems they're moving towards cancelling cup competitions to make space for a late start to the 20-21 season so this season can be completed.

Presumably the FA Cup would be retained perhaps with no replays but the rest would be sacrificed in favour of the league.

Play-off games could also reduced to single games rather than home & away.

There'd be contractual compilations and issues with pitch maintenance but seems like the best that can be made of a bad job.