Premier League to resume season at start of May?

Not bad? I agree. It was ****ing appalling!

 

Absolutely spot on mate. My feelings exactly.

 

Scottish Premier League ended .. Celtic named as champions and Hearts relegated .. not sure whether English leagues may follow after reading that but seems the common sense approach

 

I have nothing but admiration, respect and a humbling feeling for one who can use "common sense" and "English leagues" in the same sentence. This common sense will, of course, be tested in the highest courts of the land should this solution be applied here.

 

No doubt

 

Unless a team were already 'mathematically' relegated/champions/European placed it was always going to end up before the courts - you either finish this season (however long it takes) or you call it null and void. Looks like the sweaties have created themselves a right ****-show.

 

I don't pay enough attention to Scottish football to know the answer, but seeing that they've just based it on points per game to date I wonder whether they've got a case irrespective of the legal **** show. I'd be interested to see what a pools panel or some similar body predicted how the rest of the season would have ended up.

 

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman....-if-they-are-ejected-spfl-premiership-2844719

This article is a week or so old. It would appear they are basing their argument on, what they are calling, ejection. (Cue premature puns) They want to argue they have not been relegated as that can only happen on completion of the outstanding games, the league has then finished.

The arguments and courts decision may have a bearing on any decisions here. Cue lawyers rubbing their hands.

 

No way have Hearts agreed to the points per game scenario, I think the argument lies with this system being foisted onto them - they'll argue that they weren't mathematically relegated. I think Asterix calls it right, the £ signs are flashing in law firms as we type this!

 

I get that, I was more trying to get more of an idea of whether they had a moral case - are they just a (relatively) crap team who deserve to be bottom, or have they already played more of the Celtic / Rangers type games and thus might realistically have had a chance of playing their way back up the table once they got up against the other bottom teams? I can look for myself - it's not like I've got much else to do for the moment...

 

Results will be interesting.
Fairly large sample of people who are all presumably asymptomatic

 

Just google footballer who broke lockdown. Plenty of them have been playing away.

 

BBC
Championship clubs set to follow suit
Simon Stone, BBC football reporter

Championship clubs are of the view today's Premier League decision also clears them to return to training under the same conditions.

They are planning to test players on Thursday and Friday before an anticipated return to training next Monday, which is the date outlined in the story.

The key difference is clubs are now working to a restart date of 20 June.

The idea is to play on five consecutive weekends and the four midweeks in between, meaning the final league games would be 18/19 July, followed by the play-offs, the format for which is still to be decided.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...eason/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

 

Here's why points per game is crap.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...AMUEL-relegation-guessing-game-pointless.html

 

How optimistic are we about City’s prospects for staying up under this plan? I’ll be honest, I’m not.