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

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.

All games off this weekend, PL season suspended til 4th of April

We're "four weeks behind Italy" so it'll return just as things really start to ramp up

It's not returning this season imo.

French league also suspended today.

yeah, this is just a band-aid

Good to see the WRU aren't worried about the close to 250,000 who'll be coming to Cardiff tomorrow to watch the rugby

Liverpool not getting the full coronation after all, just the corona bit

You'll never walk alone, just two meters apart

an old scouser friend of mine is in his early 50's and is convinced he is going to die because both his dad and one of his brothers died in their early 50's. last time I was drinking with him he said: "at least I get to see another league title before I croak it!"

Good to see the WRU aren't worried about the close to 250,000 who'll be coming to Cardiff tomorrow to watch the rugby

― groovypanda, Friday, 13 March 2020 11:11 (twenty minutes ago)

baffled as to why this is still going ahead

Old Firm derby just cancelled so think the Wales Scotland rugby match might be the only big sporting event in the entire world this weekend

Insane that the rugby hasn't been cancelled yet.

Cheltenham is still going

london marathon been cancelled yet? i know that i'm a sweating, snotty mess at the end of most runs, no way i'd want to share facilities with 40,000 other people in a similar state tbh. brighton marathon (still on, also in april, 12,000 runners) have been offering additional places to people who were going to be doing the now-cancelled barcelona marathon and can't face the thought of just giving it a miss and maybe going for a run by themselves instead

also i know that my immune system is in bits for a few hours if not weeks after doing a marathon, really great time for catching a dose of something

FAW have just cancelled matches at all levels until 4th April which affects my daughter's U12 games and son's U11 ones. (https://www.faw.cymru/en/news/faw-statement-domestic-football/)

Rugby still on though smdh

Old Firm derby just cancelled

Now I know things are really serious.

Can't see things restarting for a long time. Possibly restart the season in a year's time, trying to pick up where we left off (though many clubs could have gone under by then).

gotta say i was really looking forward to the spurs v manu game this weekend, think mou's boys might've taken a bit of a mauling

Ive a ticket for the Liverpool v Villa game in April :(

I'd say flights are going to be cancelled soon too