Let's Call The Whole Thing Off?

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Just read that some clubs in Spain have given all current STH's a free season ticket for next season. Wonder if anyone here will do the same.

 

There's a reason I put a full stop instead of a question mark

 

it is slightly dispiriting to see players at major clubs all over europe defer wages / wage cuts bar here .

 

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of it or who you support, if the Bundesliga is anything to go by, football is going to be **** when it returns here.

The really depressing thing is I expect that'll be the same for much of next season too.

 

I've not been watching... in what sense, the no fans?

Yup, it will be tragic. Expect it will also take some of the unpredictability away from it too.

 

Yeh definitely the lack of atmosphere. I'm just speaking for myself and others may not be too bothered by it, but it's all part of the game and the enjoyment of it.

I think it also affects the players, especially the team which is the underdog.

I watched the last United game which was played behind closed doors. It was a Europy game and we would've beaten them anyway but it was obvious a large part of their confidence and general sense of play was impacted by the absence of their fans. I've seen clips of the Bundesliga on highlights and it seems to be the same.

If it was only for the remainder of this season it wouldn't be so bad. But I can see it carrying on for a while into next season. **** really.

 

For the games we won't be allowed into stadiums to watch?

 

News of Bournemouth goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale's positive coronavirus test "shook" the Premier League club, according to manager Eddie Howe.

Ramsdale initially tested negative but returned a positive test days later.

The 22-year-old was asymptomatic but is one of eight people to test positive from across the Premier League so far.

"I imagine anxiety is there among the players," Howe told the Daily Mail. "I can only imagine they are feeling the same way as I am.'

"There was not one positive within our group during the early stages and we were comfortable and felt OK," added Howe, who was the first Premier League manager to take a pay cut during the coronavirus crisis.

"But as soon as you get that one positive test, that changes the mindset of everybody.

"Suddenly everyone feels vulnerable, everyone is alerted to the fact that this is serious and real.

"Then the unknown comes into play. That shook us. We are now waiting for our next testing times to see if anyone else was in contact with the player."

Watford defender Adrian Mariappa and Burnley assistant manager Ian Woan are also known to have returned positive tests.

Ramsdale's test was conducted in the second round of Premier League testing. The results from a third round conducted across the league will be known on Wednesday.

Clubs will also vote on Wednesday whether contact training can resume.

 

Surely contact training can’t be allowed to resume under the current version of lockdown (ignoring for a second no one is adhering to that anyway any more for reasons).

Open up PowerLeague if it can.

 

But morale.

 

If players are allowed to shoulder barge and I can’t get a medium skin fade it’s not on.

 

grade zero all over for me

 

Ok Kustard.

 

Have a nice day Stan

 

Stan wishes he could pull off a fade.

 

Full contact training approved.

Don’t get it myself.

 

Boom.

 

Don’t really see what’s not to get, only clubs who won’t want to get back and finish the season will be the bottom 5/6.

Others will for the money so will go along with whatever steps are needed to do that