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stockpiling toilet roll with Steven Gerard....................

yep you can worry about 20-21 later (maybe a half season with just 1 match between teams?) but abandoning the current season will create legal havoc for everyone

starting to hit clubs over here already, going to be devastating to league of ireland teams given they have no tv money to speak of

https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/1239907579645607936

maybe but they can delay again if needed to in April, this situation is way too fluid to be making any hard predictions on what next week will be like let alone 3 weeks away

one fella on the olympic committee in japan got a wrap on the knuckles for daring to suggest they'd move earlier this week so think they're still in denial.

what else can they do, its better to wait the few weeks and see where things stand then than just cancel it now. Theres no guidebook telling everyone the right answer here everyone is flying by the seat of their pants and hoping for the best

might try behind closed doors first

unsurprisingly city vs real postponed

can it not be extreme and common sense? it is an extreme move but a sensible one

creates some space to make up fixtures in the summer if its possible for leagues to anyway though why wait until tuesday to announce it

anything to be said for settling the season by playing out the fixtures between the teams on FIFA?

real madrid players in isolation now

while minor in the grand scheme of things have to wonder at the fate of lower league clubs if they have to go behind closed doors, budgets for most of them are tight already without taking out gate reciepts and potentially have to refund a portion of season ticket money

honestly that kind of thing is increasingly irritating me as time goes on, theres no morally right or wrong way to play football (within the rules)

presumably they'll be testing the players and if all clear then go ahead?

that was confirmed a few weeks ago I think. Sensible decision since no one else in europe followed the example

you know I was half on board with that until I saw fan voted entries.

why the hell is this rule in place for anything except goalkeepers?

in the case of Bournemouth investing as to what end? Like pretty much everyone outside the likes of Liverpool etc their only objective at the start of the season is to stay in the league and on the massive tv money gravy train. Hell these days you have championship clubs playing 2nd string sides in the Cups because they want that tv money and thats the only aim.

is one of the criteria must be barcelona or real madrid?

its definitely going in a bad direction at the top level but hey theres still smaller scale stuff and ultimately while concerned about where its going I still enjoy watching premier league football (well except liverpool who are boring and nufc who are awful)

But don’t the elite exist precisely because of the ridiculous financial situation? It’s barely a sport if the only way to compete is to get a Sheik to put £400m a year in. But the only reason Man City could compete consistently was doing it they way they did. Tough s***. What Man CIty have done is make it even harder for anyone else to get in. It’s also not guaranteed they wouldn’t have been able to do it without Sheikh Mansour. Don’t get me wrong they wouldn’t have dominated in the way they have, but they have always been a big club, with good owners they’d have been capable of challenging For Champions league spots. I mean Leicester have done it with fewer means at their disposal. With average /forward thinking owners we would have too. Without the sheikh cash what would have happened is the moment city even got close to cl places the rich clubs pick apart the team like vultures. The rich get richer and everyone else is there to make up the numbers. f*** modern football and everything it stands for I mean there are three elite clubs in this country. Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal. You could add Chelsea but they’re just the same as Manchester City, in that without a mega rich owner they’d be in that group of about 10 clubs below the elite. It’s absolutely possible Man City could break in to the top 4 and occasionally compete similar to how we did, all those years ago, or how Leicester and Tottenham have today. Maybe big clubs would come in for players, if they were well run they could gradually improve their club and become even more competitive. all it takes is one fuck up of a season/transfer window to send a team crashing down to where they started undoing years of work, see us appointing graham souness as an example of that there is no margin for error. All the while man utd liverpool etc are too big to fail since they can afford to correct mistakes by throwing more money at it until something works. Until very strict spending rules along the lines of american sports then there is nothing fair about financial fair play

But don’t the elite exist precisely because of the ridiculous financial situation? It’s barely a sport if the only way to compete is to get a Sheik to put £400m a year in. But the only reason Man City could compete consistently was doing it they way they did. Tough s***. What Man CIty have done is make it even harder for anyone else to get in. It’s also not guaranteed they wouldn’t have been able to do it without Sheikh Mansour. Don’t get me wrong they wouldn’t have dominated in the way they have, but they have always been a big club, with good owners they’d have been capable of challenging For Champions league spots. I mean Leicester have done it with fewer means at their disposal. With average /forward thinking owners we would have too. Without the sheikh cash what would have happened is the moment city even got close to cl places the rich clubs pick apart the team like vultures. The rich get richer and everyone else is there to make up the numbers. Fuck modern football and everything it stands for