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It’s definitely increased steadily. I’ve been working in Splott and going through the city centre since this began. The first couple of weeks were eerily quiet on the roads and on the streets, but it’s not so quiet now. Still nowhere near normal though, not even remotely close.
I can't see how the social distancing drum could continue to be pounded when allowing some professional footballers to play games but deny amateur teams from doing likewise along with breaking up groups of kids having a kickabout on some waste ground or wherever. Anyone would have a very hard time applying an essential aspect to some games while simultaneously attempting to justify discriminating against everyone else.
As others have said, from the information we have at the moment and the mortality rate still high, I think this year would be too much of a risk for me to attend a match and I would strongly urge the family not to either.
I can see in the short term, but perhaps longer term, a scenario whereby Sky, or other/multiple broadcasting companies, showing every football league game live on the telly.
Management, ball boys/girls and possibly a select few with connections with both clubs invited whilst still obeying social distancing restrictions.
It could be a nominal price to view the game leading to bumper audiences.
Advertisers would be tripping over themselves, boosting revenue and help the club's financially.
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I should add the players would need checks and clearance on a regular basis.
If they wait until next february they can carry on where the left off and play the last games of the 2019-21 season. Job done!!!!!
just cancel this season as they have done to alot of grassroot leagues
if only to laugh at Liverpool , come on, you know you want to
[QUOTE=A Quiet Monkfish;5069983]Even if games went ahead I wouldn't pay to watch football behind closed doors, and I doubt 90% would either. No income whatsoever coming in - football clubs - especially top ones - will fold. Spurs have three quarters of a billion pounds of debt to service
With you on this, for me football, without fans, is nothing and I wouldn't mind betting that fans soon switch off if games behind closed doors are televised.
Shirley park games and leagues can restart before the leagues, just a few supporters or mums and dads, lots of fresh air about no closeness, and kids less likely to get it bad too.
And then we could all stroll to the local park and get our fix!!!
There's evidence which suggests that after the 2008 economic crash car usage went up. Combine a new economic crash with the likelihood that people will be far less keen to use public transport until a vaccine is made available, the post lockdown period could be very bad for the environment in terms of car pollution.
Will undermind a lot of hard work put into sustainable transport initiatives and green schemes.
I suspect that the people concerned will get the sort of testing that the rest of the population would quite like applied to Tom, Dick and Harry.
I think a lot of sponsorship deals are on long contracts with retainers - but with Professor Whitty saying we will need social distancing to some extent for the rest of the year, which clubs are going to survive a potential 8 more months with no TV money and no gate money coming in. I think a few owners may be reassessing the sense in investing in a sport that could, at the first sign of a new outbreak, close down for another lengthy period.
I don't quite get the statement that only public sector workers will be working? (As always, it appears everything else you said is ignored as the pack of hounds pounce on this one sentence.)
Even if we get to a stage of saying "the virus is beat", it would be fair to assume that a number of people will have had a significant reappraisal of their lifestyles. Saving money for the next lockdown, staying away from crowds etc.
I have two worst case scenarios that I am preparing for. The first is that we have periods of lockdown for a significant period. In such a scenario, I have little doubt that I will be out of work during the course of the second lockdown (if not this one). The second is that the lockdown is lifted prematurely, putting family members at risk in a second wave. As you can see, going to the pub, a football game, a meal out, going to a packed cinema, a shopping trip, or a holiday abroad etc are all things that are low down in my list of priorities, all things that I would do in the course of a normal month.
Before we have mass testing of fit young men who are basically playing a game, let's hope that we have mass testing of front line workers in the NHS and care homes. My partner works at such a care home, 3 residents have died this week, 2 had suspected covid-19, others now showing symptoms. Number of residents tested:0
Number of staff tested:0
Partner had symptoms and we were in isolation a few weeks ago. Told to drive 30 miles into Cardiff to get a test. My partner wasn't feeling up to it so, no test.
We're stuck in a vicious catch 22 circle : the deadly consequences of contacting CV19, the awful state the economy and many people's finances are going to be for possibly decades, and the direct effect of the NHS's focus on CV19 on those who are missing out on critical screening and treatment. If ever there was evidence needed that TV money runs football, we've now got it ; whatever scenario, the game must go ahead.
Re. the pack of hounds, for a few, the internet/message board is a opportunity to be aggressive, smart, and be the object of attention - things which they lack in everyday life. If it makes them happy, so be it. It's just fingers on a keyboard at the end of the day..