[Football] Will this season be completed?

[Kalimantan Gull]

I think you're wrong, I think we will stay up, just.

This is a comment I can get on board with

 

[GT49er]

Voted void. Start next season (if we can; it might well be a bit late, and without cups) as everyone was at the start of this season. Any other decision just wrong.

 

[Peteinblack]

End it now, give Liverpool the title, promote all teams in automatic promotion places, don't relegate anyone, but then relegate an extra team over the next couple of seasons to return leagues to their normal size.

 

[Surf's Up]

The current situation or variations of it will continue until the vaccine for coronavirus has been developed, properly trialled and authorised for public use. This may take up top a year, or even longer, to happen. This season is finished.

 

[beorhthelm]

season has ended, only matter of how they resolve the administration. they'll follow simpliest solution to get things to normal for next season.

 

[NS Herald]

The current situation or variations of it will continue until the vaccine for coronavirus has been developed, properly trialled and authorised for public use. This may take up top a year, or even longer, to happen. This season is finished.

This is the most succinct statement of fact I have seen on here for a while.

Football as it is now is not in the hands of the football authorities or TV companies. We are ALL in the hands of the scientists working on a solution to re-commence any sort of normal lifestyle.

 

[Pavilionaire]

There is no way 9 or 10 matches can be played to complete the season. Just count-back to the 28th game and rule that the final table. The sooner this is done the better.

Indeed, clubs need as much time as they can to assess the financial and social effects of coronavirus, then to reset their budget for a new season starting in August.

This prevarication is starting to look like a sick joke. The organisers of Wimbledon are set to announce next week that tournament will be cancelled and that was due to run 29 June - 12th July. That gives you an idea of where the timeline is sitting for a resumption, and even if it would be feasible to start again in July would that be appropriate when X,000 people have died from Covid-19?

 

[Icy Gull]

Festival of Speed now cancelled. Everything is cancelled, just bite the bullet and write this season off asap

 

[blue-shifted]

The tenor of this thread, is that we're predicting what will happen. I prefer that to the ones which are saying what we would like to see.

What will happen, I think, is that they will find a way of playing the remaining games. Most likely in very quick succession and most likely not for a good while.

I could see a scenario where they can't get going with football again until this time next year. I still think they would look to get this season completed and then run the following few league seasons in 6 months rather than 9 with international tournament qualification and domestic cup competitions being the main casualty. A bit naff maybe, harsh on the players maybe, but the authorities will surely look to a route with the least chance of being mired in litigation whereby the game games they need for their income get played eventually.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I doubt it will be finished

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[Green Cross Code Man]

That gives you an idea of where the timeline is sitting for a resumption, and even if it would be feasible to start again in July would that be appropriate when X,000 people have died from Covid-19?

Yes, it would be appropriate. If we had beaten it or at least caused it to retract, the best way we can start to heal the scars it will cause is by behaving normally. The economy will need a boost, our emotions will need a boost, and acting that way will not be disrespectful to those who sadly passed away.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

The tenor of this thread, is that we're predicting what will happen. I prefer that to the ones which are saying what we would like to see.

What will happen, I think, is that they will find a way of playing the remaining games. Most likely in very quick succession and most likely not for a good while.

I could see a scenario where they can't get going with football again until this time next year. I still think they would look to get this season completed and then run the following few league seasons in 6 months rather than 9 with international tournament qualification and domestic cup competitions being the main casualty. A bit naff maybe, harsh on the players maybe, but the authorities will surely look to a route with the least chance of being mired in litigation whereby the game games they need for their income get played eventually.

You are forgetting contracts etc. How would that be fair, if a team loses some of its best players due to the season extending a long time after June? I don't think that scenario will happen at all.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

I hope so; we’re a shoo in for the Sussex Senior Cup!

 

[neilbard]

I can't see any professional football being played for a very very long time maybe next year if we are lucky.

Festival of Speed postponed and revival in doubt "We will continue to review plans for the Goodwood Revival, in the hope that the event will go ahead as planned on September 11-13th"

Glorious Goodwood will be abandoned also.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I hope so; we’re a shoo in for the Sussex Senior Cup!

The FA has announced termination of the season for non league clubs.

https://www.betvictoristhmian.co.uk/fa-announcement-season-termination-61688

 

[jonny.rainbow]

The FA has announced termination of the season for non league clubs.

https://www.betvictoristhmian.co.uk/fa-announcement-season-termination-61688

That link says tiers 1 & 2 of the NLS (Eastbourne Borough play in tier 2) are still intended to finish.

 

[Badger Boy]

It would be profoundly unfair for this season not to finish. The priority has got to be finishing this season before any others can begin. Shorten a season which hasn't begun to fairly finish one which is 2/3rds completed.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Barber option for me, larger div for next year, everyone sort of happy, some very happy ie non relegated, no one sueing

 

[Weststander]

Sorry to Albion fans looking for a cop out from being relegated, it will be completed. Not sure when.

There's no hurry, people are dying as we post. There are far more important things in life than sport.

Personally, I'm now loving the break from the relentlessly tedious PL hype and zzzzzz narratives we're maneouvered down. Spending more quality time with my family, getting fit, working through iplayer etc.

 

[wealdgull]

It would be profoundly unfair for this season not to finish. The priority has got to be finishing this season before any others can begin. Shorten a season which hasn't begun to fairly finish one which is 2/3rds completed.

And equally unfair to resume the season 3, 6, 9 months from now.