East Staffs Gull
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On the day that Liverpool secure the title, the wheels will come off social distancing on Merseyside, irrespective of where that game is played.
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[Football] Premier League / Football League attempts to finish the season
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Bob!
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- Jul 5, 2003
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So Quarters and Semis are at weekends, thus clashing with PL fixtures?
Thought they would have put them on a free midweek to keep all the Clubs on same number of PL games played.
Had no idea who was left...
Leicester City v Chelsea
Newcastle United v Manchester City
Sheffield United v Arsenal
Norwich City v Manchester United
Pierre the Painter
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- May 20, 2020
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FA Cup final date same date as last weekend of PL
Neville's Breakfast
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PL fixtures are every day of the week not just on weekends.
The FAC games at Wembley will have almost 90,000 empty seats, bizarre.
"I had to go to anfield to test my eyesight"
Bob!
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- Jul 5, 2003
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FA Cup final date same date as last weekend of PL
PL final fixtures due Sat 25th June
I can't even remember where we had got up to with the FA Cup? Quarter finals? And who is left in it?
Bob!
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- Jul 5, 2003
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6 weekend plus 3 midweek rounds were initially announced
Rounds of matches will be:
Fri (1 game), Saturday (4 games), Sunday (4 games), Monday (1 game)
or
Tuesday (18:00 or 20.00) and Wednesday (18:00 or 20:00)
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Everton Liverpool live on BBC TV. Is this to stop people cramming into other peoples homes to watch Sky/BT?
How much must the companies paying £billions be upset at having to give up that game.
Also seen a rumour it may be played in Manchester.
How much must the companies paying £billions be upset at having to give up that game.
Also seen a rumour it may be played in Manchester.
Neville's Breakfast
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/52833725?__twitter_impression=true
Time slots are in the link.I don’t think there is an ‘or’.
Bob!
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- Jul 5, 2003
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You can quite clearly see that the Friday to Monday slots add up to the ten fixtures that make up one round of games.
Edit to add:
Kick-off times will be as follows (all times BST):
Friday: 20:00 Saturday: 12:30, 15:00, 17:30 and 20:00 Sunday: 12:00, 14:00, 16:30 and 19:00 Monday: 20:00 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: 18:00 and 20:00 BBC Sport understands that clubs have agreed to a provisional end date of Saturday, 25 July.
It is also understood that finishing the season would require six weekends and three midweek rounds.
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You just KNOW that this is going to happen regardless.
A combination of wall-to-wall football on TV + great weather + easing of restrictions + loads of people still off work is going to create a right old mess. Frankly, I'm beyond caring whether football comes back or not and if I were a police officer I'd just say to people, "you know what? Do what the **** you like now." But I do think that all these PL games on TV through June / July has the potential to undo everything that was achieved in March and April.
Luckily, none of my neighbours are into football. This is going to be booze / sun / football / BBQ carnage.
Green Cross Code Man
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Unfortunately it won't be any form of protection to anyone that barbecues are happening outside of the immediate vicinity. The rest of society could end up paying for those that simply don't care, like neighbours of mine.
Pierre the Painter
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Many thanks Bob!
Possibly, although it may well depend on if there's much to sort out. If the European and relegation places are sorted, there isn't nearly as much pressure to all kick off at same time
Super Steve Earle
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I'm going to declare an interest - beginning to look forward to the restart and how it all plays out. If others start to take an interest in this festival of football, as I think they will, surely it will help whatever the lockdown looks like in three weeks as people will stay indoors to watch some of it rather than break lockdown. I'll start with watching the Villa match. It certainly is another salutary reminder of the human tragedy of Covid-19 that poor Dean Smith has lost his dad amongst 37,000 plus other individual tragedies and, if football doesn't restart after all, I really don't care. It is as unimportant as it was at the outbreak. But if it restarts, I will be watching matches that affect Albion as much as Mrs Earle allows.