Covid-19 & Football
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I think Rick Parry is pushing for that. Parry's funny - after masterminding most of the benefits the PL enjoys he's now at the FL trying his damndest to undo many of the things he set up! He's right, I think, but it's a tad ironic.
The chairman of the EFL, Rick Parry, has criticised the Premier League for failing to help lower-league football as he admitted to a potential £200m black hole in club finances by September.
Parry, appearing before the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee, called for a “complete reset” of the way football is run, including the introduction of a wage cap and an end to parachute payments, which he described as “an evil that must be eradicated”.
Ian Ayre agrees. Mind you, he's transformed himself into Captain Birdseye.
That is quite magnificent!
Imagine him now on his Harley. He hath become an hairy biker.
It is right to scrap it. It’s rewarding failure. The distribution of money right throughout all the leagues is horrific. There should be a more fair way to trickle the money down right to grassroots.
That's very much debatable. Whilst there is the strain of handling the virus issues many players have been able to return to their home (countries) and have likely spent a lot of time with family and friends (especially in Africa /Brazil), are physically rested and mentally rested as far as is possible.
We need to get in as much football as possible when conditions permit - not send them off to return just in time for what may well be next Winter's outbreak.
I think the opposite. Most of the players haven’t gone anywhere. Nor mixed with friends or family.
There will be an almost non existent break at the end of the season. The 20/21 season will be interrupted (possibly) by the AFCON for some players, then the Euros, then 21/22 with a World Cup in the middle with a shortened break going into 22/23. Possibly another short rest before 23/24 to get the seasons back to normal.
I’d want to minimise the amount of games played where we can and not maximise them.
There will be an almost non existent break at the end of the season. The 20/21 season will be interrupted (possibly) by the AFCON for some players, then the Euros, then 21/22 with a World Cup in the middle with a shortened break going into 22/23. Possibly another short rest before 23/24 to get the seasons back to normal.
I’d want to minimise the amount of games played where we can and not maximise them.
I'm damn sure the break will tiny, probably three weeks max, only thing that could be awkward is the transfer window, & before people mock it, those figures from the athletic were shocking, & show how much European teams benefit from the PL money.
Belgium have sold 1bn worth of players to us in five years, & five clubs (can't remember who) between them have had 1bn in that same five years too.
Belgium have sold 1bn worth of players to us in five years, & five clubs (can't remember who) between them have had 1bn in that same five years too.
I’m a bit jealous, currently we had 2 months off footy and that’s pretty much a Standard summer break covered already. Would be good to have footy back in some form.
I think all UEFA have said is that qualification for UEFA competitions must be based on merit. So, theoretically, the league could be null & void, with no champions & no relegation, and UEFA places awarded based on position at the time the league was voided.
I don't think that would happen, but I do think a case could be made for it.
It cannot be voided. That would mean all results cancelled, essentially nothing happened. No results means no sporting integrity to award European spots.
Relegation has to happen, no matter what those 6 or 7 clubs want. How the football league work out which 3 come up I don’t know. It could be Leeds and West Brom come up and a knockout tournament between all those currently in the playoffs.
Null and void will never be on the cards.
Relegation has to happen, no matter what those 6 or 7 clubs want. How the football league work out which 3 come up I don’t know. It could be Leeds and West Brom come up and a knockout tournament between all those currently in the playoffs.
Null and void will never be on the cards.
The behind closed doors and neutral grounds seems the most likely to me. As soon as it becomes clear that it can be done safely without the risk of increasing the infection rate (which it clearly can, even if players are quarantined for the whole duration!) and within govt guidance then the null and void argument falls rather flat.
The neutral grounds will be ones that are away from residential areas so access can be controlled. Find some crappy non league ground out in the sticks and play them all there one after the other for all I care.
The neutral grounds will be ones that are away from residential areas so access can be controlled. Find some crappy non league ground out in the sticks and play them all there one after the other for all I care.
We are back in training.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...raining-return-melwood-measures-a9504316.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...raining-return-melwood-measures-a9504316.html
FA have told premier league clubs the season cannot be null and void.
Lovely. That will change a few votes on Monday.
https://www.caughtoffside.com/2020/05/07/liverpool-news-fa-to-block-null-and-void-attempt/
Lovely. That will change a few votes on Monday.
https://www.caughtoffside.com/2020/05/07/liverpool-news-fa-to-block-null-and-void-attempt/
Edited to reduce Scottishness:
Steven Gerrard: Seeing Jürgen Klopp run past my house each day gives me a lift
Steven Gerrard talks to Paul Joyce about Rangers, Liverpool and father-son bonding through slide tackles
Paul Joyce, Northern Football Correspondent
Thursday May 07 2020, 12.01am, The Times
Liverpool Football Club
Football
Gerrard with Klopp, the Liverpool manager, who jogs past his house
ANDREW POWELL/LIVERPOOL FC/GETTY
Steven Gerrard is back at his home in Formby growing accustomed to a new routine. Every morning he can set his watch by the sight of Jürgen Klopp pounding the streets outside his house on the daily jog. Then there is the small matter of getting his head around homeschooling with his daughters before some respite when playing with his three-year-old son.
Occasionally, his competitive edge rears up. Gerrard, 39, found himself slide-tackling the youngster in the back garden the other day, although little Lio seemed to delight in his tumble.
This is the new normal for the Rangers manager.
“From a football point of view, you try and make the most of this time and keep things ticking over and that is happening on a daily basis,” Gerrard says. “But this has given me an opportunity I haven’t had for a long time to be under the same roof as my family for six weeks. There are a lot of positives in that. It is the first time I have had to properly bond with Lio.
“I try to balance my family life well when the season is on. The club understands I have to get back down the road certain days of the week and they have been very supportive of me. My family visit me a lot and they enjoy Glasgow. It is just part of being a manager and one of the sacrifices that you have to make.
“Jürgen is going to be the fittest manager out there when football comes back. He runs past my house at the same time every single day and he runs past going the other way, so he is definitely jogging for more than an hour. I also see him walking his dog and, with the guidelines, we can speak from a distance.
“The majority of managers are feeling the same. We want to get back to doing what we do, but we appreciate the situation the world is in and the need to be patient. But to see Jürgen gives me a lift. To bump into him at this time is always a positive for me.”
Gerrard’s belief that his boyhood club, for whom he excelled for 17 years, should be crowned champions has been touched upon in his conversations with the Liverpool manager, although he has avoided pummelling Klopp for managerial advice. He knows that the German is only too willing to help and has offered nuggets of information in the past, but lockdown has naturally provided a period for self-reflection as a coach.
This week marked the second anniversary of his appointment as Rangers manager which was, at the time, a bold move by both parties. Gerrard’s experience amounted to one season in charge of Liverpool Under-18, while the task of resuscitating a club that languished in the doldrums plunged the rookie coach in at the coalface.
Steven Gerrard: Seeing Jürgen Klopp run past my house each day gives me a lift
Steven Gerrard talks to Paul Joyce about Rangers, Liverpool and father-son bonding through slide tackles
Paul Joyce, Northern Football Correspondent
Thursday May 07 2020, 12.01am, The Times
Liverpool Football Club
Football
Gerrard with Klopp, the Liverpool manager, who jogs past his house
ANDREW POWELL/LIVERPOOL FC/GETTY
Steven Gerrard is back at his home in Formby growing accustomed to a new routine. Every morning he can set his watch by the sight of Jürgen Klopp pounding the streets outside his house on the daily jog. Then there is the small matter of getting his head around homeschooling with his daughters before some respite when playing with his three-year-old son.
Occasionally, his competitive edge rears up. Gerrard, 39, found himself slide-tackling the youngster in the back garden the other day, although little Lio seemed to delight in his tumble.
This is the new normal for the Rangers manager.
“From a football point of view, you try and make the most of this time and keep things ticking over and that is happening on a daily basis,” Gerrard says. “But this has given me an opportunity I haven’t had for a long time to be under the same roof as my family for six weeks. There are a lot of positives in that. It is the first time I have had to properly bond with Lio.
“I try to balance my family life well when the season is on. The club understands I have to get back down the road certain days of the week and they have been very supportive of me. My family visit me a lot and they enjoy Glasgow. It is just part of being a manager and one of the sacrifices that you have to make.
“Jürgen is going to be the fittest manager out there when football comes back. He runs past my house at the same time every single day and he runs past going the other way, so he is definitely jogging for more than an hour. I also see him walking his dog and, with the guidelines, we can speak from a distance.
“The majority of managers are feeling the same. We want to get back to doing what we do, but we appreciate the situation the world is in and the need to be patient. But to see Jürgen gives me a lift. To bump into him at this time is always a positive for me.”
Gerrard’s belief that his boyhood club, for whom he excelled for 17 years, should be crowned champions has been touched upon in his conversations with the Liverpool manager, although he has avoided pummelling Klopp for managerial advice. He knows that the German is only too willing to help and has offered nuggets of information in the past, but lockdown has naturally provided a period for self-reflection as a coach.
This week marked the second anniversary of his appointment as Rangers manager which was, at the time, a bold move by both parties. Gerrard’s experience amounted to one season in charge of Liverpool Under-18, while the task of resuscitating a club that languished in the doldrums plunged the rookie coach in at the coalface.
Yessss ... we gonna get our asterix !!!!
TBF if he actually did that it probably would.
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