Lads, it's the Premier League thread - EPL 2019/20

Bruno is a god

Fred is looking pretty decent as well.

Fred will win our player of the season pretty handily

Unless Bruno overtakes him I guess...

Fred booked for diving for an obvious penalty

VAR says it's cool

Mike Dean playing a blinder

Comedy keeper capers

^ And again

When you’re pissing around on FIFA and decide to rush the keeper out...#Reina #AstonVilla pic.twitter.com/ru5FXy5bSE

— Jimmy Win (@JimmyWin82) March 9, 2020

So Bergwijn out for the rest of the season, too? Fuck.

So if everything gets cancelled because of coronavirus do they write this season off, leaving Liverpool still looking for a first title win in 30 years?

I think that's the only fair course of action, yes

Pools Panel will be reconvened. I registered poolspanel.fa.co.uk in 2003 so it’s down to me, Bill Kenwright and the ghost of Brian Labone. We will be scrupulously fair. (Spoiler: City by a point).

Lol

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— Times Sport (@TimesSport) March 12, 2020

they'll go through with this charade for a week or so i guess

Wonder if clubs will have to compensate season pass holders

PL will be ok but imagine that's going to hit some lower league clubs really hard

I’d imagine they would.

Excited for Wolves to be playing a team whose owner has coronavirus tonight.

I know right? Playing staff have tested negative apparently, but the refusal to countenance a postponement has been illuminating.

I'm just remembering that time Alex Ferguson said he wouldn't even sell Real Madrid a virus.

lol merseyside derby with no spectators?

NBA shut down completely now

Once a player tests positive its surely down. We can't be very far from that

the refusal to just call the season off is irresponsible and dangerous imo

Rugani has tested positive in Italy. Seems almost inevitable someone has it here.

CRONa

Agree w/ Deems though. This is not getting any better any time soon. Best to call things off.

sensible thing to do is write this season off and just use last year's top 4 as qualifiers for next season's CL

like i said

they'll do the BCD thing til someone tests positive, then shut it down

delaying the inevitable because they'll be liable for hundreds of millions to the TV companies

Even as a protection of assets, it doesn't make sense to do anything other than keep players wrapped up in cotton wool. What are they going to do £300m worth of players if they get persistent respiratory damage?

the refusal to just call the season off is irresponsible and dangerous imo

well that saves jose's skin then

no title for Liverpool, no promotion for Leeds?
shut the fucker down.

We're all thinking of the lols

It's a fucker considering the great season we're having tho

as much as I despise vile dirty Leeds with every molecule, Bielsa is a manager of rare class and i wish him every success tbh.

i would think that the only possible outcome is to call all qualification to european comps as the league stands, some sort of playoff to decide promotion/relegation, and simply not award a league title to anyone

lol merseyside derby with no spectators?

Never mind that pish, there's an Old Firm game on this Sunday.

Primera and Segundo Division all cancelled now, too.

and simply not award a league title to anyone

― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 10:12 (one hour ago)

not sure if trolling or not here.... best to just play the remainder of the games later in the year to decide title imo

that won't work, euros and september will not allow for it

we all have to make sacrifices

Dude the Euros is not happening.

yes for very good reason

so u cant ask teams to play in the space thus vacated

look, there was no league completed in 2020, thats a fact.

Three Leicester players showing symptoms apparently - Vardy, Ndidi and James in self-isolation.

That's got to be it now, surely?

call it off ffs

lock thread

Breaking | UEFA are set to announce on Tuesday that EURO 2020 will be postponed to 2021 owing to COVID-19, according to L’Équipe. More follows.

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) March 12, 2020

Stop it all, carry over the current points totals to the start of next season and declare final positions in May 2021

In the meantime maybe just use the extra time available to have a bit of a look at Leeds' finances, see if there have been any irregularities, clerical errors etc that might - god forbid - warrant a 30pt deduction

it should be a bit of a laugh when they duckworth–lewis the rest of the prem season and have Liverpool declared only the provisional champions and just leave a blank space on the trophy next to 2019-20 as a tribute to all the victims of COVID 19.

can we call next season's thread "Liverpool Are Not Gonna Catch the Coronavirus"??

Arteta has coronavirus.

Arsenal personnel who had recent close contact with Mikel will now self-isolate

That would be...all of them?

Hudson-Odoi positive now too

sensible thing to do is write this season off and just use last year's top 4 as qualifiers for next season's CL

brave to assume there will be a next season

Bournemouth & Everton join the list of likely infected clubs.

PL is going to be postponed until after the international break apparently.