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Would love to know how people here are doing in their city/country? All good with family, friends and work?

Stay healthy ?!
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
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I think they've gone WAY too early there personally. Feel for all the clubs in promotion scenarios that have invested with a model to be higher up the pyramid who have now had that taken from them. You can't not finish a season that's already started. No matter HOW long it takes.

Amusing to see all the 'cancel this season' brigade back out in force this AM.

I presume they'll do the same come the winter if we start next season and there's another big CV spike that causes things to be shut down?
 
Things best start getting better soonish then coz I can’t even see behind closed doors going ahead at this rate. June is a little while away but things are bad and getting worse not better
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
Things best start getting better soonish then coz I can’t even see behind closed doors going ahead at this rate. June is a little while away but things are bad and getting worse not better
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Afraid this might be just the start.
Mostly if that **** head wont take it seriously in USA, that will be giving us more troubles than only virus.
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
Things best start getting better soonish then coz I can’t even see behind closed doors going ahead at this rate. June is a little while away but things are bad and getting worse not better
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Oh, no question. I don't really know why the PL is holding a meeting on Friday when the only realistic thing they can really do is to say they'll review the ongoing situation in another months time.

My best guess will be they'll be no European season next year (CL/ Europa League), as we don't know when this season will end? (Which is has to regardless. Even if it's completed another 6/8 months down the line for example..). And following on from that when next season will even start?

This is going to totally mess the calendar up for a number of years sadly. (Christ knows how FIFA will realign the summer transfer window which naturally can't happen.). Although on the positive, we now have a chance to align with the mad winter WC if, say, we play the next 2 seasons February through November. Then have the Qatar WC. And get back to normal after that.
 
They should just play behind closed doors, provided of course that staff, refs and players will get rigorously tested for the virus.

The big clubs will survive couple of months shutdown but its about preserving the entire pyramid.
 
Tyton said:
They should just play behind closed doors, provided of course that staff, refs and players will get rigorously tested for the virus.

The big clubs will survive couple of months shutdown but its about preserving the entire pyramid.
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I agree behind closed doors is the beat way to go to get football going. But not sure it’s viable to put more stress on the nhs as even behind closed door matches will still have to have Doctors, Ambulance drivers etc there. And for me that just doesn’t sit right. The NHS is wafer thin as it is!
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
I agree behind closed doors is the beat way to go to get football going. But not sure it’s viable to put more stress on the nhs as even behind closed door matches will still have to have Doctors, Ambulance drivers etc there. And for me that just doesn’t sit right. The NHS is wafer thin as it is!
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Sure, but If clubs start going out of business and employees start jumping off brigdes because they have no money, it's going to put even bigger stress on the healthcare. I don't want games back for my entertainment, I want them back beause football is not exactly a small industry. We have 4000 clubs here, UK probably has twice that. That's a lot of jobs that can be saved relatively easily by finishing the season in some isolated capacity to get that TV money and then using it to help the rest of the pyramid.
 
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