How will the season pan out

Never heard of this geezer but
Sir Graham Brady MP suggested the public had been “a little too willing to stay at home”.

So, people follow the new laws, do the socially responsible thing to do, follow medical and government advice, lose money, suffer financial hardship and do not see loved ones for almost 2 months.

What kind of a complete thundercunt insinuates that people are being lazy for ****s sack?

 

He is the former chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers. He quit to run for the Tory leadership and then crashed and burned and was not heard from again. Until now.

 

That would be the Tory MP for Altrincham and Sale West, who the lemmings in that constituency have elected without fail every single time since the constituency was created in 1997

 

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Because why make the French, Dutch and Belgians look sensible when Gordon Taylor can have another one of his brilliant ideas and make them look really sensible?

 

Rather than come up with one moronic suggestion to finish the season after another, from using out-of-town stadiums like the Emiroids (which is in the middle of a built-up area), to completing the season but with relegation off the table, to only playing 45 minutes, the more I think one thing: can the Premier League just admit that Sky have them by the balls and won't stop squeezing?

It's even more obvious when you compare the list of teams whose leagues were scrubbed to those who are umming and ahhing

Ligue 1 - Canal+/beIN Sports
Eredivisie - Fox Sports (Dutch version)
Jupiler League - a whole bunch of Belgian networks you've never heard of

Premier League - Sky Sports/BT Sport
Serie A - Sky Sports Italia
Bundesliga - Sky Sports Deutsch

Maybe the penny has finally dropped with the Murdoch Empire: they need football as much as football needs the Sky money, because football is what Sky Sports has built itself upon for the best part of thirty years and without it the entire service runs the risk of collapse, as demonstrated by how they can't even advertise their Cheltenham festival coverage without having their football pundits front and centre of it while they can't even offer WWE anymore as that jumped to BT earlier this year, and as we all know there's no better sign of a healthy business model than one that would implode into a pile of mildly-burned marshmallows if they couldn't pump out half a dozen Premier League games a week to keep people subscribing

 

See above ...

 

All solutions to the "problem" must be required by default to not
crown the Poool as PL 2019-20 champions.

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No, no, no - you;re missing the point

All solutions also involve Leeds not getting promoted

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52592431

Yes, let's change the rules during the season...

 

They`ve done that already by suspending the season, and there are so many variables that have already been affected, things like momentum being lost, previously injured players now fit and available, teams not now playing clubs immediately after their mid week European exertions etc etc.

They keep banging the `we must preserve the integrity of the league` drum, but fail to realize the integrity of the competition was breached the moment it was suspended.

 

Okay, then - Spurs get fifty points for a win, twenty five for a draw, and ten for a loss

There's a reason the K-League is resuming: their government is homicidal, incompetent, and homicidally incompetent

 

Some perspective. Over here in Eastern Australia (NSW and Queensland) the Federal Government has approved for the National Rugby League (NRL) to resume on May 28th. Criteria is - no crowds , players to undergo strict Covid-19 testing regularly and the biggest is that they cannot have physical contact with their families until further notice. The team that is based in Auckland NZ has traveled to Australia and are in an isolation camp for 2 weeks. We have flattened the curve here to such an extent that we are able to do these things. The players are accepting of this and have made the sacrifice to keep the game from going under financially. Would the football authorities be brave enough to ask all clubs to do this? Thoughts?

 

My post should have said..."there are many ways that could be argued to be fair but they won't all give the same answer".
Your way selects an arbitrary number of historical data points and an arbitrary method for dealing with promoted clubs.
There is enough data to do a sophisticated model based on this season's results alone which would be a lot fairer than points per game. But it would still need arbitrary inputs.

 

It's not the football authorities calling the shots on this, it's Sky because they're desperate for Sky Sports to get a RoI before people start downgrading their packages - as evidenced by the German and Italian authorities, whose leagues are also beholden to Sky, also umming and ahhing about restarting while those which aren't, such as France and Holland, scrubbed the season PDQ

 

Seen today Dresden in the 2nd div in Germany has put the entire squad in isolation for a week. Surely they can't commence playing while cases are still be being diagnosed .

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52605961

How many is too many?

 

Best not ask Priti Patel that, given we've simultaneously had too many and not enough planes landing to set up quarantine...

 

3 of Brighton and hove Albion's team have tested positive, we already have 30,000 plus dead , void this season now and only restart when it is safe to do so

 

Thats better

 

This season is dead and has been for some time, nobody should want their name associated with such a compromised competition, firstly due to the horrendous Covid 19 situation and secondly the bias and corruption of VAR. This season can not be completely fairly and is now about as insignificant as it gets, you can not change the rules of any competition part way through and retain any integrity.