Premier League officially postponed until 17th of June

[dudu]

TV money plays a huge part unfortunately mate.

I agree. Money talks but it will make a complete mockery of the competition.

If they want to put on soulless, meaningless games that are essentially friendlies then fair enough, not sure what the point in watching will be as everything that goes with the actual entertainment of the game will be gone because the results literally won't matter.

Will players be trying properly? I wouldn't risk injury for no reason whatsoever.

 

[Yiddo100]

The Premier League are also preparing for the possibility of playing the 2020-21 season without fans.

"The reality is that we just don't know how things are going to pan out," Clarke wrote in a letter to the FA governing council.

"But with social distancing in place for some time to come we do face substantial changes to the whole football ecosystem.

"For example it's hard to foresee crowds of fans - who are the lifeblood of the game - returning to matches any time soon."

'Hard to see fans returning any time soon'

Football Association chairman Greg Clarke says it is hard to see fans returning to matches "any time soon".

www.bbc.co.uk

Don’t see how it can be any other way with no vaccine

 

[Shadydan]

Wonder if FIFA 21 is gonna have no crowds

 

[NickHSpurs]

I agree. Money talks but it will make a complete mockery of the competition.

If they want to put on soulless, meaningless games that are essentially friendlies then fair enough, not sure what the point in watching will be as everything that goes with the actual entertainment of the game will be gone because the results literally won't matter.

Will players be trying properly? I wouldn't risk injury for no reason whatsoever.

Personally I would really like to see the Premier League sell rights to every single game behind closed doors and share that money with every single football league club. I think from a PR point of view it would make a huge difference in the public perception when it comes to the restart as it would then become much more about the wider survival of smaller clubs as well as the PL.

 

[Tweddled]

Wonder if FIFA 21 is gonna have no crowds

I'm sure they'll just import the Man City crowd they already have to each stadium in the game

 

[brasil_spur]

Don’t see how it can be any other way with no vaccine

It's been posted many times before but this question keeps coming up.

There are many, many illnesses that don't have a vaccine that we don't stop the world for. What we need is to get this virus to the point that it is in the manageable norms of life. Be that herd immunity, various treatments methods that massively improve recovery, a cure, a vaccine or any combination of these.

Again to be clear, we don't need a vaccine in order to resume "normal" life, all we need is for COVID to be at a level that makes it within range of being as potent at killing people as the flu.

 

[dudu]

It's been posted many times before but this question keeps coming up.

There are many, many illnesses that don't have a vaccine that we don't stop the world for. What we need is to get this virus to the point that it is in the manageable norms of life. Be that herd immunity, various treatments methods that massively improve recovery, a cure, a vaccine or any combination of these.

Again to be clear, we don't need a vaccine in order to resume "normal" life, all we need is for COVID to be at a level that makes it within range of being as potent at killing people as the flu.

Which still relatively unknown new diseases with the currently estimated infection and mortality rate of Covid-19 are they?

 

[Real_madyidd]

Yeah but what tests ? Antibody or antigen?

I can finally reply to this. My Mrs works for Roche- so both. I knew the test that was announced over the weekend was coming for a couple of weeks. 100% accurate Antibody testing is a gamechanger.

 

[Real_madyidd]

Don’t see how it can be any other way with no vaccine

Immunity not through vaccination but through having actually recovered from the illness. People will need to accept some sort of system as identfying them as being immune or low risk. (the idea being to protect the vulnerable rather than get everybody out).

 

[brasil_spur]

Which still relatively unknown new diseases with the currently estimated infection and mortality rate of Covid-19 are they?

You're massively missing the point. The reason that they aren't killing as many people as COVID is that we have developed treatments and cures for them and raised awareness of how to prevent and detect them, but we don't have a vaccine. I mean basically any notable bacterial infection will kill you, you don't take any vaccine to prevent against bacterial infections, but we have antibiotics which act as a very effective treatment once you get an infection and if for example you cut yourself you wash or disinfect the wound and cover it to reduce the chances of a bacterial infection.

C-19 is new and so at the moment we're still understanding how best to protect against it and don't yet have any effective treatments for it (although this is look more promising each day). We might never have a vaccine for it, but regardless there should still be a point in time where things can continue as "normal".

 

[Hotspur88]

Looks like Irish racing will resume 18 May

Yes seems that way with UK racing a few days later at the weekend. So seems the info I was given was pretty much spot on. French racing is the first back on May 11th.

 

[vegassd]

In terms of finishing the PL behind closed doors but not finishing the other leagues I think the answer is of course money.... but potentially in a good way. I think most people would like to see the money from the PL filter down throughout the leagues more and maybe this will be the trigger.

It's all very complicated but I think the top teams know that the whole football ecosystem depends on the lower leagues as well so hopefully there will be will enough to come to some sort of deal. If freezing relegation is a deal breaker in the PL then perhaps the price would be a chunk of money allocated to lower league teams missing out on promotion. Or a player wage reduction/cap. Or some other way to spread the wealth more evenly.

What is clear is that there will be some major compromises required somewhere, and that it will end up not being completely fair to all teams. But I don't think that halting football until stadiums can be full is the solution - that has to be the most counter-productive option.

 

[coys200]

Scotland just said will be NO relaxation in lockdown till 28th May.

 

[Yiddo100]

Scotland just said will be NO relaxation in lockdown till 28th May.

Did she say a date? I saw she said it’s very likely the lockdown will continue

 

[yankspurs]

They should just void the season. Declare it null and void and work out a deal with the tv broadcasters. The logistical, emotional and potential health issues right now make continuing almost impossible. If UEFA gets pissy over this, just dont even bother with them. There wont be UEFA competition for at least a year.

Use this time to work towards starting next season in September with no fans(and you cant re evaluate that month by month). If there is no second wave, and infection rate stays relatively flat at zero by Christmas, you can beging to open up and restrict stadiums to 10% capacity and eventually try to get up to 50% by seasons end. By next summer, much more will be known about this disease that might make it possible for normalcy in all sport to resume without a vaccine(if none is made available).

 

[coys200]

Did she say a date? I saw she said it’s very likely the lockdown will continue

Yup she said 28th

 

[Yid-ol]

Scotland just said will be NO relaxation in lockdown till 28th May.

Next review date is 28th of May, but announcements could be before 28th if things change. Should know more on the 7th.

 

[yankspurs]

First of many legal challanges to come on France’s decision on how to end it

 

[tototoner]

Yes seems that way with UK racing a few days later at the weekend. So seems the info I was given was pretty much spot on. French racing is the first back on May 11th.

Good , be glad to see the classics and especially Pinatubo

 

[JollyHappy]

Does anyone know from current published information what our monthly repayment/interest charges are on the Project finance?