Circuit Breaker Lockdown

[6TimesaRed]

Talks over EFL entering a circuit breaker lockdown after Christmas, due to increasing levels of positive tests with the new strain of this virus

Problem is with the EFL that they are no where near the levels of testing that is available to the Premier League..

PL currently testing twice a week, whereas the EFL are lucky if they are once a week.. some clubs are once a month

It's is quite bad when you think about it.. for example German lower League clubs are being tested at least twice a week.

What are the PFA doing to support their players ? Happy to pay some silly salaries to PFA board members and throw money at contesting Salary Caps in the EFL, but not support their members in terms of testing ?

All a bit of shambles tbh . More needs to be done to support lower League clubs with this..

Add to that deadline for testing for EFL clubs in January is just to appease PL clubs for the FA cup..

Thing is the EFL enter a circuit breaker lockdown.. almost certainly the PL, despite thorough testing regime, will follow suit

 

[The Nomad]

FA cup has to be in doubt.. doesn't it?

 

[6TimesaRed]

FA cup has to be in doubt.. doesn't it?

You would think.

But watch it go ahead..

Non of the organisations within England likes to talk to each other..

 

[MomoWASright]

FA cup has to be in doubt.. doesn't it?

I hope the 3rd round goes ahead for Marine. Fuck the rest of the ties.

 

[King Binny]

 

[gkmacca]

Scott Parker always looks to be waiting to audition for a role in a Guy Ritchie movie.

 

[Holle]

D'ya like dags?

 

[King Binny]

 

[King Binny]

 

[King Binny]

 

[Dreambeliever]

Only a matter of time til the league is suspended surely

 

[King Binny]

 

[FoxForceFive]

Only a matter of time til the league is suspended surely

Considering our injury situation a fair few months break may be a blessing tbh.

 

[Athens]

City should just be made to forfeit all their matches.

 

[MomoWASright]

City should just be made to forfeit all their matches.

For the next 2 seasons.

 

[King Binny]

Getting from bad to worse in the lower leagues

 

[Donavan Ried]

Only a matter of time til the league is suspended surely

Suprised it was not do so earlier give that London is now in tier 4 and that the Gov' are saying that you must not travel from a higher Tier into a lower one

 

[King Binny]

Getting from bad to worse in the lower leagues

 

[Dreambeliever]

Considering our injury situation a fair few months break may be a blessing tbh.

Absolutely as long as it’s not canned I’m happy for it to delayed. We need to win as many titles as we can with this set of players and Klopp

 

[MomoWASright]

Just get to 18 games top and then call the league. Champions again if it’s called off.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Nah. Suspend til the May when every cunt is vaccinated, play til August when we stroll to the league double & take the CL too.

Parade of fucking millions takes over the city whilst Everton try to tell us they may start to build a new stadium at some point, just as we're starting the new Anny Road & are publishing plans for Europe's biggest single tier stand to replace the Kop.

 

[Red Astaire]

I've said it before and so I guess I'll say it again. It's the fucking dumbest thing that the league is even going ahead. This (whatever it is) is not footy. No fans no footy. It's a horrid display of media corp bollocks. On Monday, a record 41,385 Covid cases and 357 deaths were reported in the UK. Just process that for a second. My Mum, Sister and brother in law have just been infected. My mum is 70. I don't know the science and I'm not blaming footy. Just the ideology behind the torrent of shite decisions. Lock the twat down and we'll all go again whenever it's cool.

 

[FoxForceFive]

It's a bit mad.

On the WhatsApp group I'm on it seems some of us know loads affected, some very badly, yet others not all.

But yeah, footy continuing as normal seems. Mad.

The other argument though, is that with no footy & no income the lower league clubs go bust. Potentially permanently.

And no one wants that.

There's no right answer imo.

Only wrong answers of varying degrees.

 

[King Binny]

 

[RedStar]

The next 3 or 4 weeks are going to be carnage in the UK and most of Europe, I dont see why they wouldnt suspend play for a period of time. Its worse now than it was when they shut down back in March/April

 

[Dreambeliever]

The US state of more people dying each day from Covid than 911 really strikes home.

Madness.

 

[The Nomad]

I've said it before and so I guess I'll say it again. It's the fucking dumbest thing that the league is even going ahead. This (whatever it is) is not footy. No fans no footy. It's a horrid display of media corp bollocks. On Monday, a record 41,385 Covid cases and 357 deaths were reported in the UK. Just process that for a second. My Mum, Sister and brother in law have just been infected. My mum is 70. I don't know the science and I'm not blaming footy. Just the ideology behind the torrent of shite decisions. Lock the twat down and we'll all go again whenever it's cool.

It is bad right now.. especially where we are.

However the 41k figure is artificially high due to the good old 'delay of reporting over the festive period'.

I hope your family get well soon.

 

[rurikbird]

The US state of more people dying each day from Covid than 911 really strikes home.

Madness.

Still not enough for some people to come to their senses, apparently

 

[Ukrainian by marriage]

What is the daily death rate in the US of A normally ?

In the UK, it is 1600-1700.

 

[tombrown]

Around 3-3,500 recently - see https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer - a wealth of data.

UK & US death rates actually very similar when normalised (~7 per million). But that doesn't take into account different counting methods that may be used

Interesting the "fatality rate" (proportion of positive cases who die) is much higher in UK (3%) than US (1.7%)