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https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/11476053/premier-league-games-back-tv-within-weeks/
Weeks? Wow, that's early!
In the meantime, the Faroese league is due to start early May. I think TV2 here in Norway are considering buying the rights, so there might be some football to watch soon, at least!
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And Eliteserien will not play games with audiences until September the earliest. Still no news about when the season actually will start.
Sounds very unrealistic, unreasonable and immoral...
"As a first initiative to resuming sports, within the current anti-contagion legislation, NIF and the Norwegian Football Association (NFF) want to conduct a" pilot "in Norwegian top tier football where activity is resumed with strict contagion measures."
“The pilot involves the start of football training in top tier football on May 4, and top football matches from June 15. The pilot will be evaluated on an ongoing basis and the experience will be useful in the further process of resuming sports in line with the rest of society. "
I wonder if any of the other big leagues will do the same.
Doomed to fail
Proposals include:
- Players will have to cover their faces
- Testing all players and officials 48 hours before returning to training and they will also be tested for potential respiratory problems associated with coronavirus
- All footballs, global positioning system [GPS] units, cones, corner flags, goalposts and other equipment to be disinfected before and after use by staff wearing personal protective equipment [PPE]
- Players to wear snood/masks at all times
- Cars to be parked three spaces apart
- No massages unless approved by club doctor
- Fluids to be left at designated pick-up points
- Only visit training block to use toilet
- Initially only five players per training group
- Players to be given designated time slots and 15 minutes to prepare
- 75 minutes of small group training
- 15 minutes recovery
- Players and staff will be banned from spitting at the training ground
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12040/11981088/premier-league-players-will-have-to-cover-faces-in-full-training
It just can't work, I wear a mask for several hours and only after a short space of time I feel dehydrated and I am only walking.
So what happens if play is stopped when players usually have a quick mouthful of water, soon as a mask is removed its potentially contaminated. Someone gets tackled and the mask falls off, maybe it's just me though I think it's ludicrous to even attempt any of this.
We are heading into summer which will make masks ever more unbearable to wear for numerous reasons.
Also wasting tests where they should be given to front line staff is immoral.
Void all football now IMO.
So next season may as well not happen across the whole of sport. So when I hear it will be a morale boost for the country? I think it is biggest piece of BS going! Not everyone loves football so it would not be an entire country wide boost. The season should continue when it is safe to do so? Not because the Premier League brand is losing money. I love football as much as many people do, but it makes me sick to think PPE will be sacrificed to do it.
Annoyed rant over!
I can't see why people can't get it through their heads that the season should be finished but only when it is realistically safe to do so?
I see some journalists keep bringing up the financial situations of the clubs (especially below the top tier) as a factor for resuming the season this early, but surely, health should come first.
Some players have spoken out against the plans of resuming the leagues early. Like FC Köln’s Birger Verstraete:
Hopefully that won't happen. But it wouldn't be surprising if many players feel pressured to resume playing should the league start up again early.
No matchday revenue for a whole season? Wonder how they'll make up for that, should it happen.
How will they justify that to the police? Fans will try and turn up still!
https://www.offtheball.com/sport/two-positive-coronavirus-tests-borussia-monchengladbach-1010455
Interesting as only ten days away from German restart, it appears they will go ahead from previous stated strategy
Yes, it looks that way. It will be interesting to see how it goes, should the Bundesliga resume their season. It might give an indication on how the PL will approach their strategy as well.
I think if there are alot of cases it may stop abruptly.
I heard earlier that some were proposing shorter matches, five substitutes in the Premier League restart, I can't see that happening to be honest.
It will no doubt be something they'll keep track of, when/if the leagues resumes.
Can't imagine the leagues implementing changes to the game itself (number of subs etc.). I think they'll have enough with the precautions they have to take in order to actually play the games.
Interesting. Wonder who those six clubs are.