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Does that mean most of their games can still go ahead? :moo:

Okay, I can see that. Good point. As a symbolic PR act, putting matches behind closed doors would be a good bit of spin. But on its own that's all it will be.

As said above, her projections are longer term, potentially over 2 or 3 years given we don't actually have any natural immunity to this particular virus. The entire battle now is to make that worse case 60-70% infection rate as slow as possible

What she didn't really say and one of her top virologists did, is that infection rate while a reasonable worse case scenario might take years to reach that level depending on treatments etc. What we need to wake up to is that this virus is going to be with us conceivable for quite a long time...

Yeah of course, and it is present in warmer countries now, but increased sunlight hours, warmer weather, increased humidity will mean that combined with a far greater level of hygiene and cleaning regimes, the virus will find is harder to be transmitted. If someone near you with it sneezes, then...

Unless you lock down the entire country and have restricted movement, essential shopping only, shutting down public transport systems and bringing the country to a halt, then what you're suggesting is nonsense really. Unless stopping football is linked to some greater programme of measures, then...

I'm no virologist but my understanding so far is that they've been looking at the optimum transmitting temperature of the virus to be sub 9 deg C. As we hit April, May, we could see a real leveling off in the spread of the virus, and a return to more normal life as we hit June. By the end of...

If that happens as part of a much broader 'lock down' of the country, then I can understand making matches behind closed doors. Without wholesale measures across the board nationwide, hitting sporting events is just meaningless.

No. It is a 'crisis plan' that the FA have been asked to draw up for consideration by government as they make plans for various scenarios. Nothing to say whether it will be implemented or not. Unless you shut down the country, I can't see what cancelling football matches achieves as stated...

Millions of commuters each day are getting on packed trains and buses traveling too and from metropolitan centers. Cancelling a football match just seems disproportionate to what is the current events of daily life. There will be as much chance (probably more chance) catching the virus in...