Project restart discussion.

[Lee Smith]

How many games are left to be telivsed this season by bt/sky?! Cant we just add them to their total for next season for free?! Sky/bt happy. No unwanted deaths because of football restart. Promote the top 2 from championship, make it a 22 team league next season. Finish the season on ppg but no relegation. The parachute payments the relegated clubs where ment to get, split it between the football league.

Think I read earlier that 47 of the 92 remaining games were scheduled for Sky/BT. Seemed high to me but then again even more games are on tv towards the back end of the season

Edit: Yeah 47

Premier League clubs discuss kick-off times and free-to-air games - BBC Sport

Premier League clubs discuss increasing the variety of kick-off times and the option of free-to-air games if the season resumes.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Archie Knox]

So the government says they will only make very minor changes from Monday to the lockdown. I wonder how on earth the Football Association is going to convince fans that it's fine for thousands of footballers and staff to start gathering immediately, as that is what it will take to get the season over by end of June.

A return to training within a week of any announcement (many footballers are out of the country), three weeks of full training before the first fixture (that's been generally accepted) .. that makes it a very minimum of second week of June before a ball is kicked, and many players' contracts run out three weeks later.

Are they really going to cram 7 games into 3 weeks and risk illness and injury just to finish the season? Well, we know the answer unfortunately..

 

[BluePeadar]

So the government says they will only make very minor changes from Monday to the lockdown. I wonder how on earth the Football Association is going to convince fans that it's fine for thousands of footballers and staff to start gathering immediately, as that is what it will take to get the season over by end of June.

A return to training within a week of any announcement (many footballers are out of the country), three weeks of full training before the first fixture (that's been generally accepted) .. that makes it a very minimum of second week of June before a ball is kicked, and many players' contracts run out three weeks later.

Are they really going to cram 7 games into 3 weeks and risk illness and injury just to finish the season? Well, we know the answer unfortunately..

If they announce the PL is back then thats it I am gonna drive a bus load of us to the beach with bags of cans and have a massive Barbecue

 

[Trimm Trabb]

Fiorentina and Sampdoria report new coronavirus cases

Players and staff who tested positive at the two Serie A clubs sent home in compliance with Italian government protocols

www.skysports.com

 

[N.S.N.O.]

Fiorentina and Sampdoria report new coronavirus cases

Players and staff who tested positive at the two Serie A clubs sent home in compliance with Italian government protocols

www.skysports.com

It's gonna be the same story as it was before the forced break, the virus hasn't gone away so not sure what the people running football are expecting to happen...

 

[4737carlin]

Darren Lewis on talk sport saying he is against this plan to restart at neutral grounds, suprised at that as he is normally all for Liverpool

 

[tommytowne]

I read a report this morning that police had stopped a couple near snowdon who had driven up from Kent for the day to see the scenery

Trump that with the married couple driving from Leeds to Whitby so they can smell the sea. Fined by North Yorkshire Police and turned around.
Sniffing a pair of her skids would have sufficed and been cheaper!

 

[Nymzee]

Darren Lewis on talk sport saying he is against this plan to restart at neutral grounds, suprised at that as he is normally all for Liverpool

Unless it's because he wants Liverpool parading the trophy round Anfield?

 

[4737carlin]

What is annoying me is this talk about Germany, these are todays stats

UK New cases +5,614, new deaths +539
Germany New cases +853 new deaths +67

No wonder Germany are talking about it, we are no were near ready to even think about it

 

[Archie Knox]

It's gonna be the same story as it was before the forced break, the virus hasn't gone away so not sure what the people running football are expecting to happen...

They are going to play games long enough for Liverpool to mathematically become champions and then cancel the season.

 

[PhilM]

Four Sampdoria players have been diagnosed with COVID-19 according to Alan Myers.

 

[toffee_laura]

Four Sampdoria players have been diagnosed with COVID-19 according to Alan Myers.

Manolo Gabbiadini one of them apparently

 

[Tin-Tin]

Four Sampdoria players have been diagnosed with COVID-19 according to Alan Myers.

 

[marsh]

So if prem players test positive is it a case of you go home but the rest play on? Hows that fair if 4 or 5 of your main players get it

 

[Lob]

Project restarts final act of desperation suggestion to finish the season.