Project restart discussion.

[boris]

It still won’t happen this.

It’s one thing preparing for every eventuality and starting light training in small groups, it shows you’re prepared to explore all the options. Asking relegation threatened clubs to play BCD and possibly at neutral grounds is completely another.

It won’t happen, the clubs and players will see to it. The money is the PL is just too big and no other league can be compared. The clubs here have the financial power to take the league on and win.

They’ve been thrown a bone, they’re not going to let it go and risk relegation as we head in to a severe recession.

 

[fabricsince1985]

Sweaty footballers are usually also breathing heavy. Can’t you see that?

Yeah I can, but if a player is negative the day before a game (and from several other tests you'll have already tested negative for), even if you do catch it during the next 24 hrs, you're not in the phase where you will be transmitting the virus. The testing is enabling them to say it's safe for them to proceed.

 

[kenada_blue]

Belgium had one game before splitting into two mini leagues for 10 more games

So wasn't entirely voided

 

[Chris O'Connor]

In a pandemic it's a whole other story though fella.

Players don't have the risk of dying from an injury. I know 99% chance of just having no symptoms for them is a reality but there's the chance of the 1% who end up in hospital.

Given this is all about money, I don't think one of the top club's would be too happy with that scenario.

It's easy to overestimate the risk given the tragedy of so many dying each day but the demographics are very very clearly in footballer's fsvour.

The truth is the risk of anyone who is that young and superfit, with NO underlying conditions, as footballer's have to be, suffering any serious aftereffects is so small it really is very near zero statistically.

This is even more so as it's going to be such an artificial, controlled bubble with quarantine for players and staff beforehand and very regular testing.

Less than 1% of those that have been tested are positive (6 in well over 700) as they return from a 'far more normal' dangerous environment - (we may even learn that some or all are asymptomatic) but if they're players infected then they're really extremely unlikely to not come through ok.

Tbh I really couldn't care less about it restarting but recognise financially it's important to the premier league, and you're right to point to that being the driving force.

 

[Minimeister]

It's easy to overestimate the risk given the tragedy of so many dying each day but the demographics are very very clearly in footballer's fsvour.

The truth is the risk of anyone who is that young and superfit, with NO underlying conditions, as footballer's have to be, suffering any serious aftereffects is so small it really is very near zero statistically.

This is even more so as it's going to be such an artificial, controlled bubble with quarantine for players and staff beforehand and very regular testing.

Less than 1% of those that have been tested are positive (6 in well over 700) as they return from a 'far more normal' dangerous environment - (we may even learn that some or all are asymptomatic) but if they're players infected then they're really extremely unlikely to not come through ok.

Tbh I really couldn't care less about it restarting but recognise financially it's important to the premier league, and you're right to point to that being the driving force.

Have the players agreed to that?

 

[BlueStevie35]

So wasn't entirely voided

Pretty much, caused a bit of an issue because even though Brugge were 15 clear, their points total would have been halved at the split, meaning had the won game 30, they would have started the final ten games on 36/37 points and could feasibly have been caught

 

[Kenshin]

I feel it literally will take a death for football to pause. Hope it never happens though.
In that age group- 0.2% chance of death. Issue will be if you get it, then a secondary infection and lasting lung damage. I have a persistent cough and feel a bit short of breath during the first part of exercise, this being months on from when I likely had it- in mid Feb. Admittedly I'm not a prime athletic specimen lol

Sadly you may be right.

So easy to say they will be fine but how many tragic stories happen of fit young footballers having hidden health issues that cost them their life?

All it takes is one player to have a respiratory issue or something worse that they aren't aware of and it triggers worse in their system.

 

[marsh]

Burnley assistant has it

 

[jaycee]

I feel it literally will take a death for football to pause. Hope it never happens though.
In that age group- 0.2% chance of death. Issue will be if you get it, then a secondary infection and lasting lung damage. I have a persistent cough and feel a bit short of breath during the first part of exercise, this being months on from when I likely had it- in mid Feb. Admittedly I'm not a prime athletic specimen lol

What do you make of this Doc?

Anything to worry about,or hyperbole?

 

[4737carlin]

What do you make of this Doc?

Anything to worry about,or hyperbole?

Look at Fabrice Muamba, we never know what problems players might have

 

[Goat]

What do you make of this Doc?

Anything to worry about,or hyperbole?

Im sorry but Premier League players get tested when they take a poo these days, they are tested at the start of every season, during the season and every medical they take for a transfer, I fail to see how 1/3rd have undiagnosed anything.

 

[DrEFC]

Im sorry but Premier League players get tested when they take a poo these days, they are tested at the start of every season, during the season and every medical they take for a transfer, I fail to see how 1/3rd have undiagnosed anything.

I bet big red players had undiagnosed underactive thyroid glands *taps nose*

 

[Tin-Tin]

 

[DrEFC]

What do you make of this Doc?

Anything to worry about,or hyperbole?

Sports medicine is deffo not my field! The amount they monitor O2 consumption via masks in preseason training, I'd find it hard to believe they didn't pick up on 1/3 of players showing some form of mild bronchial spasm. Maybe Corona could be a sensitising event. I randomly can't talk or swallow properly a few times a day- but that's upper airway/throat.

 

[Wat Tyler]

That’s actually very interesting, the fact that a number of Watford players are now following their captains example and saying “no.” Obviously the RS conspiracies will accuse these Doctors of faking the tests, but if more and more players refuse to play, it gets really messy for the PL.