Match Day Thread Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m all about problem solving and trying as hard as possible to find solutions to a situation. But at a certain point you have to be realistic about a situation. Romantically holding on to the idea of sport being about never giving up is a lovely notion but ultimately doesn’t mean anything if faced with insurmountable obstacles. And at what point does desperately not giving up just damage things further? That goes for life as well as the situation around the league.

The guy who believes in never giving up loses his house and everything he works for because he doesn’t know when to throw in the towel as his business fails. The guy who never gives up ends up with brain damage because he didn’t stop the fight soon enough.

Like I said, it’s romanticism rather than being pragmatic or realistic. It’s one thing to try not do be defeated, it’s another entirely to do so at the expense of rational thought.

 

It’s not being intentionally unfair though is it? It’s having a difficult situation and trying to make the best decisions.

 

Problems solved by cancelling the league

a) Liverpool don't win the league


Problems not solved by cancelling the league

a) Television asking for money back.
b) Season-ticket holders asking for money back. And I emphatically include corporate season-ticket holders.
c) Corporate partners asking for money back in general.
d) Not being able to claim league-winning, Champions League-qualifying, promotion-achieving bonuses from corporate partners.
d) Having to fail to complete two seasons as 2020/21 is likely to be as hampered as this one.
e) Players asking for end of season bonuses around goals and qualifications when they haven't been confirmed. If I am Jonny Evans and have a 250k payout agreed on finishing top four I would very much like my money as I have done the work.
f) The expunging of all records. If I am Harry Kane I would like my goals to count, please.
g) Loads of people deciding what's the point of the enterprise.

 

How are you defining "best" when your previous argument was based on your "hope" that next season everything would magically be okay?

 

And if finishing this season ****s next season a lot of the same issues would apply to next season...

 

How is next season ****ed by finishing this one? Because the dates of games are a bit different than they usually are? Just like they're all going to be when the Qatar World Cup comes around anyway?

 

You’re not meant to point that bit out.

 

Even Trump has given up on the idea that the virus just goes away like a "miracle" and has decided 1 million Americans still alive is a win. #bitters still hanging on though.

 

Yeah that’s relevant to my post....

 

Where's your source for the virus being eliminated by July then?

 

Who said that? Not me.

 

How is next season unaffected then?

 

Having a different schedule doesn't **** a season up ffs, it's just different

 

It remains to be seen when football can continue.

However, any games eroded from next season’s schedule to accommodate the completion of the current one, negates all of your points about the financial penalty for not completing. It’s called maths.

 

If some kind of normality doesn’t return until let’s say September, the new season will already need to be condensed to fit before the euros. If we then put it back by 6 weeks+ it’s not realistic to think an entire season could be crammed in starting in November...

So given the choice between the new season being ****ed or this one being written off, I choose writing this one off.

I just don’t see that things will return soon enough to do both. If by some miracle we can start way earlier then fantastic.

 

Weird how no one who's actually seen the sponsorship contracts agrees with you.

 

Why not break for the Euros just like we'll have to break for the World Cup?

 

You should actually try backing that assertion up.

 

Right after you show your economic forecast for how delaying the Olympics is free.

 

Just as well it's not up to you then...