ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

[PITA]

Any mileage in turning this campaign into a two year effort?
As it looks increasingly likely any footie won't start until June at the earliest, what about starting again in August as you would with the new season and carry over your points tally into the next 38 games?

How would that work?
Some teams have played 29 games whilst others have played 28.
We've played the RS once, other teams have played them twice.

 

[Yarrgh]

This needs it own thread please

I'm sure Aldo will oblige tomorrow after he sleeps off the inevitable special brew nightcap.

 

[catcherintherye]

Who's cleaning the bogs, showers and baths, some poor zero hours' worker.

Well yes and are they going into quarantine as well?

 

[catcherintherye]

Imagine some single mother forced to choose between going to work and potentially getting infected or losing her job just so a game of football can be played.

Yes and for quarantine to work, she will be required to quarantine too. So is she being kept away from her kids for 3+ months while this goes on? How about he chefs employed to cook meals? The people who send the ingredients? Are they all quarantining? Not to mention the multitude of presenters, reproachers, journalists, editors, producers, directors, cameramen, runners, lightning engineers etc that exist around the game who don't play it.

You also have then the police, stewards, paramedics, ambulance drivers, doctors etc who are on call at every game (as a legal requirement). So do they all have to go into quarantine as well?

Unless you want to quarantine all of the people, and get them all to agree to 3 months away from the family, you are risking it spreading. And believe me, in that close proximity, the moment one person gets it will spread like wildfire as it did the last time the PL tried to insist on playing games, against all advice.

It would be a farce to try and insist upon it, at a time of national disaster and people would rightly, never forgive the selfishness of football.

People have to get through their heads, a group of healthy 20 something men and an industry that chooses to pay them millions of pounds a year, is essentially wholly irrelevant in the wider discussion of what is a priority for this country.

If we have 92+ hotels with training facilities (we don't) but even if we did, we should be giving them to homeless people, women fleeing domestic violence and NHS staff needing to self isolate.

 

[Barca Blue]

Brilliant lol - needs more pigeon action tomorrow.

 

[catcherintherye]

The whole footballing world (bar the RS) tomorrow morning (before 12pm) praying the premier league board make a decision to void -

I don't think they void yet.

I said before the last meeting, they would make some wooly commitment to want to restart, which Liverpool fans would wilfully misrepresent and try to make out is some legal guarantee. All of this came to pass

They will not postpone yet. The talk will be on wild, dangerous and ridiculous contingencies. About how we can play them as a tournament in June. No thought will go into time frames, or realistic acknowledgement about how fit the players need to be. There will be a review date set May. Again Liverpool fans will try to claim this i a certainty when it's not.

The hard decision will be made towards the middle of May. At that point some sides may be asked to go back to training, and at that point, I suspect they will just say no, they are not happy with that. Sides at the bottom of the league will not be happy to risk a decision that costs hundreds of millions of pounds on an end of season circus. This will be painted as some great betrayal when it's anything but. Nobody is really committing to these dangerous plans except for a hardened few who keep leaking information and ideas.

 

[tommytowne]

How would that work?
Some teams have played 29 games whilst others have played 28.
We've played the RS once, other teams have played them twice.

Not perfect by any means but those with less games could play that game in addition to the 38. As for not playing teams twice, tough!

 

[gav1985]

I see several of their ex players have commented positively in support of the Panorama programme. The same ones urging the behind closed doors games with hotels etc that will be staffed by minimum wage staff. Hypocrisy FC strikes again. Lets celebrate them but at the same time put them in danger for Liverpool FC. Idiots.

 

[tommytowne]

No cos the RS would be top with the lead they have and try to claim two titles.

They'd have a choice. Two titles or crowing they'd won by 50 points.

 

[aazak]

Secret diary of Aldo aged 61 1/2

Tuesday 31/03

2pm Woke up with another bad head. I had a terrible dream last night that I'd been round to Kenny's house and was shouting for him to come out. Good job I stayed in with those 19 cans of special brew. Still got a quarter of a can left. Can I claim to have drunk them all? That miserable Roy Keane was bragging that he can drink 21. Miserable Manc C***, thinks just because he's an Irish superstar like me that I should talk to him.

4pm Went for some rizzlas from the corner shop. Djimi and Brucie were hanging out outside the shop. Brucie has a new vespa and was revving the engine because he thinks he soooo cool. That Djimi asked Brucie how many European Cups he had won, one he said. Then Brucie asked Djimi and he said one. Then Djimi asked me, and I had to run inside because I haven't won one and they know that the b*****rds. I was dead embarrassed. When I left the shop, Brucie was still there and told me had just seen Kenny and Rush drive past in Kenny's Polo. No way I said, Kenny promised me that I could go driving with him this week. Brucie started laughing at me and did his spaghetti legs. What a rubbish day.

7pm Went out for the Echo to see if there was any news from the FA or League or UEFA about finishing the league off. I have had my banner made for ages now for the parade. I keep adding stuff to it. It'll be brilliant. If the TV cameras see it they'll have to stay for 5 minutes on it so that everyone in the world can read it. It's really clever.

7:30 pm Nothing in the Echo about the league. Only an article about James Milner eating a special diet to improve his fitness. Probably pot noodles or something. It's a whole 2 page spread with loads of photies.

8:00pm Had me tea. Fish fingers, chips and beans. I might get some of them Milner noodles. I reckon that I could still score in the league this year, maybe if I eat enough pot noodles like James ey?

9:30pm Finished the story. It's not pot noodles he eats, it's some German Science thing from Jurgen's medical team. Good job I didn't have a pot noodle. Bit of a night cap for me now.

11:30pm Bloody hell, just looked at the front page of the Echo. Some tramp was outside Kenny's house shouting all night for him to come out. Disgraceful. Probably some miserable bitter bloo. I don't know what gets into those nugget's head.

12:30am Twitter was boss. Everyone talking about the agenda of the government and other teams against us with this Coronavirus thing. Spot on, they don't know anything about integrity of competition. They'd be better off cancelling next year's league as that hasn't even started yet. Juventus fans are going on about them just conceding the league, the daft ba****ds, but I can understand their position so I posted a video of you'll never walk alone at them with the words amici. They'll appreciate that.

Apart from the spaghetti legged n*nce Brucie and that annoying Djimi it's been a decent day. Nothing from Kenny or the league - I reckon he might have gone around there to sort them out. He's brilliant.

Excellent.

 

[peteblue]

As mentioned on here yesterday, Juventus have said they don't want the league trophy if their league can't be restarted, showing a bit of class about what should happen in a null and void season, no chance the rs would do the same.

Other sports are far more realistic with Joe Root accepting there isn't likely to be any cricket at all this summer.

Why should they be talking about any 'mega-event' at a midlands ground in front of no crowd in June, but of course all the medical staff, players and coaches etc present and at risk?

When will the premier league realise the gravity of the situation?

Ignore the finance as the country and it's economy has had to do, and just get real.

Null and void the season and start again in November or later, whenever it's entirely safe and possible to do so without risking another fatal outbreak, a three week pre season would have to be scheduled anyway.

Klopp has asked that if Juventus don’t want their league trophy, can he have it, please.......

 

[shagpuss]

Yes and for quarantine to work, she will be required to quarantine too. So is she being kept away from her kids for 3+ months while this goes on? How about he chefs employed to cook meals? The people who send the ingredients? Are they all quarantining? Not to mention the multitude of presenters, reproachers, journalists, editors, producers, directors, cameramen, runners, lightning engineers etc that exist around the game who don't play it.

You also have then the police, stewards, paramedics, ambulance drivers, doctors etc who are on call at every game (as a legal requirement). So do they all have to go into quarantine as well?

Unless you want to quarantine all of the people, and get them all to agree to 3 months away from the family, you are risking it spreading. And believe me, in that close proximity, the moment one person gets it will spread like wildfire as it did the last time the PL tried to insist on playing games, against all advice.

It would be a farce to try and insist upon it, at a time of national disaster and people would rightly, never forgive the selfishness of football.

People have to get through their heads, a group of healthy 20 something men and an industry that chooses to pay them millions of pounds a year, is essentially wholly irrelevant in the wider discussion of what is a priority for this country.

If we have 92+ hotels with training facilities (we don't) but even if we did, we should be giving them to homeless people, women fleeing domestic violence and NHS staff needing to self isolate.

Absolutely nail on the head. The RS, their cheerleaders in the media and the EPL have no answer for this. This is so-called mega event is totally dead in the water. Not even a 1% chance it could go ahead.

 

[jonnyboy316]

I don't think they void yet.

I said before the last meeting, they would make some wooly commitment to want to restart, which Liverpool fans would wilfully misrepresent and try to make out is some legal guarantee. All of this came to pass

They will not postpone yet. The talk will be on wild, dangerous and ridiculous contingencies. About how we can play them as a tournament in June. No thought will go into time frames, or realistic acknowledgement about how fit the players need to be. There will be a review date set May. Again Liverpool fans will try to claim this i a certainty when it's not.

The hard decision will be made towards the middle of May. At that point some sides may be asked to go back to training, and at that point, I suspect they will just say no, they are not happy with that. Sides at the bottom of the league will not be happy to risk a decision that costs hundreds of millions of pounds on an end of season circus. This will be painted as some great betrayal when it's anything but. Nobody is really committing to these dangerous plans except for a hardened few who keep leaking information and ideas.

I think you will find there will be a need for a common approach across the major European leagues. I suspect there will be a decision made by one soon leading to a domino effect

 

[daza_1973]

Secret diary of Aldo aged 61 1/2

Tuesday 31/03

2pm Woke up with another bad head. I had a terrible dream last night that I'd been round to Kenny's house and was shouting for him to come out. Good job I stayed in with those 19 cans of special brew. Still got a quarter of a can left. Can I claim to have drunk them all? That miserable Roy Keane was bragging that he can drink 21. Miserable Manc C***, thinks just because he's an Irish superstar like me that I should talk to him.

4pm Went for some rizzlas from the corner shop. Djimi and Brucie were hanging out outside the shop. Brucie has a new vespa and was revving the engine because he thinks he soooo cool. That Djimi asked Brucie how many European Cups he had won, one he said. Then Brucie asked Djimi and he said one. Then Djimi asked me, and I had to run inside because I haven't won one and they know that the b*****rds. I was dead embarrassed. When I left the shop, Brucie was still there and told me had just seen Kenny and Rush drive past in Kenny's Polo. No way I said, Kenny promised me that I could go driving with him this week. Brucie started laughing at me and did his spaghetti legs. What a rubbish day.

7pm Went out for the Echo to see if there was any news from the FA or League or UEFA about finishing the league off. I have had my banner made for ages now for the parade. I keep adding stuff to it. It'll be brilliant. If the TV cameras see it they'll have to stay for 5 minutes on it so that everyone in the world can read it. It's really clever.

7:30 pm Nothing in the Echo about the league. Only an article about James Milner eating a special diet to improve his fitness. Probably pot noodles or something. It's a whole 2 page spread with loads of photies.

8:00pm Had me tea. Fish fingers, chips and beans. I might get some of them Milner noodles. I reckon that I could still score in the league this year, maybe if I eat enough pot noodles like James ey?

9:30pm Finished the story. It's not pot noodles he eats, it's some German Science thing from Jurgen's medical team. Good job I didn't have a pot noodle. Bit of a night cap for me now.

11:30pm Bloody hell, just looked at the front page of the Echo. Some tramp was outside Kenny's house shouting all night for him to come out. Disgraceful. Probably some miserable bitter bloo. I don't know what gets into those nugget's head.

12:30am Twitter was boss. Everyone talking about the agenda of the government and other teams against us with this Coronavirus thing. Spot on, they don't know anything about integrity of competition. They'd be better off cancelling next year's league as that hasn't even started yet. Juventus fans are going on about them just conceding the league, the daft ba****ds, but I can understand their position so I posted a video of you'll never walk alone at them with the words amici. They'll appreciate that.

Apart from the spaghetti legged n*nce Brucie and that annoying Djimi it's been a decent day. Nothing from Kenny or the league - I reckon he might have gone around there to sort them out. He's brilliant.

Auditions for the Pandora character have started in earnest....

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Secret diary of Aldo aged 61 1/2

Tuesday 31/03

2pm Woke up with another bad head. I had a terrible dream last night that I'd been round to Kenny's house and was shouting for him to come out. Good job I stayed in with those 19 cans of special brew. Still got a quarter of a can left. Can I claim to have drunk them all? That miserable Roy Keane was bragging that he can drink 21. Miserable Manc C***, thinks just because he's an Irish superstar like me that I should talk to him.

4pm Went for some rizzlas from the corner shop. Djimi and Brucie were hanging out outside the shop. Brucie has a new vespa and was revving the engine because he thinks he soooo cool. That Djimi asked Brucie how many European Cups he had won, one he said. Then Brucie asked Djimi and he said one. Then Djimi asked me, and I had to run inside because I haven't won one and they know that the b*****rds. I was dead embarrassed. When I left the shop, Brucie was still there and told me had just seen Kenny and Rush drive past in Kenny's Polo. No way I said, Kenny promised me that I could go driving with him this week. Brucie started laughing at me and did his spaghetti legs. What a rubbish day.

7pm Went out for the Echo to see if there was any news from the FA or League or UEFA about finishing the league off. I have had my banner made for ages now for the parade. I keep adding stuff to it. It'll be brilliant. If the TV cameras see it they'll have to stay for 5 minutes on it so that everyone in the world can read it. It's really clever.

7:30 pm Nothing in the Echo about the league. Only an article about James Milner eating a special diet to improve his fitness. Probably pot noodles or something. It's a whole 2 page spread with loads of photies.

8:00pm Had me tea. Fish fingers, chips and beans. I might get some of them Milner noodles. I reckon that I could still score in the league this year, maybe if I eat enough pot noodles like James ey?

9:30pm Finished the story. It's not pot noodles he eats, it's some German Science thing from Jurgen's medical team. Good job I didn't have a pot noodle. Bit of a night cap for me now.

11:30pm Bloody hell, just looked at the front page of the Echo. Some tramp was outside Kenny's house shouting all night for him to come out. Disgraceful. Probably some miserable bitter bloo. I don't know what gets into those nugget's head.

12:30am Twitter was boss. Everyone talking about the agenda of the government and other teams against us with this Coronavirus thing. Spot on, they don't know anything about integrity of competition. They'd be better off cancelling next year's league as that hasn't even started yet. Juventus fans are going on about them just conceding the league, the daft ba****ds, but I can understand their position so I posted a video of you'll never walk alone at them with the words amici. They'll appreciate that.

Apart from the spaghetti legged n*nce Brucie and that annoying Djimi it's been a decent day. Nothing from Kenny or the league - I reckon he might have gone around there to sort them out. He's brilliant.

Absolutely superb mate lol lol lol