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I'm really looking forward to the football being back on tv. There's only so much Top Gear I can put up with.
Not for me. Games behind closed doors have little appeal. Might go down to the CCS though when City play their first home game to protect the Fred Keenor statue.
I bet an average of £10 to £15 a week during the football season.
My balances for the last five seasons are:
2015/16: - £169.00
2016/17: + £488.00
2017/18: + £112.00
2018/19: - £202.00
2010/20: + £252.00
Overall: + £481.00
You wouldn't believe how many hours of form study has gone into achieving that whopping profit margin, which averages out at approximately £96.00 a season. And if I was to deduct the cost of the Racing Post every Saturday morning, I'd definitely be in arrears. Put it this way, I have no plans to give up the day job and become a full-time gambler.
I'm as happy as a pig in shit that football is starting again. I walked the dog the other day and stood watching a bunch of kids playing a game at heath park with my usual critical tone. The dog doesn't really care much for my opinion on the kid in the Man City top's first touch.
Really looking forward to it, a little punt and something to concentrate on and a move towards normality-brilliant.
Although I got reservations about it returning, I’m looking forward to the games next week so I can watch a couple of games with my youngest lad.
That said, I’m feel like this every time a new season begins and by the first week of September which usually is an international break, I’m bored witless by the whole thing.
Well I am sorry Robert but I don't think my explanation makes it sound like that at all.
Of course cup ties are an extreme example.
But I have been to league games where the crowd has been instrumental in wins or draws.
But what do I know. I've only been following City since 1961!!!!!
And incidentally the point I meant to add to my first response was that it was a bit premature to start wondering about this after so few games.
There may be something more happening but it ain't necessarily so.
The issue I have is that you don't know when you have the virus. Virus testing is also notoriously dodgy and can take multiple negative tests before getting a positive. Having thousands of footballers, staff and media travelling from city to town is going to be devastating. We will look back on this like we do the Cheltenham festival as a "what were they thinking?" moment.
Until the virus numbers are in single digits we should not be allowing it. I might be in the minority, but I think its mental. Look at the Chinese football league. They got their virus cases right down to almost nothing and didn't restart their sporting calendars. Now there are new outbreaks of the virus that suddenly appeared. Travel between regions should come with enforced isolation of two weeks, which I doubt all of the staff and media will be doing.
Will watch the City games and a select few PL games but can't say it's massively appealing to me at the moment.
Doesn't help it's a bit of a boring season where Liverpool have ran away with it.
I am looking forward to watching some live sport on the telly but not the football per se. If I'm honest, the prospect of live cricket being on is more appealing.
I am still a bit sceptical regarding players' movement up and down the country and I doubt I will attend a live game or enter a pub any time soon.
Regarding City's hopes of a play off spot, I'm not terribly confident. Anyway I don't think I could stand the tension and prospect of disappointment at the last hurdle.
All that said, once it gets going again, my feelings might change.
I'm genuinely interested by your viewpoint (and I don't mean that sarcastically either). Given that the top two divisions in Germany resumed just over a month ago and the Covid-19 daily deaths figure in that country today is just 3 - their lowest total since mid-March - what leads you to believe that football resuming in the UK under strict protocols will be devastating?
For reference, the daily deaths figures in Germany in the ten days before football resumed in mid-May were:
282 + 117 + 118 + 39 + 20 + 92 + 77 + 123 + 67 + 73 = 1,008
So far so good!
I think Harris has done a terrific job in recent weeks. City look fitter and stronger than any of the other teams I've watched in the Championship so far and the players look fully motivated too. That's really admirable under the circumstances. They might have ridden their luck a little in the two games, but they couldn't have done much more and, for my money at least, they've been full value for both victories.
I've been really enjoying football's return. Some good games, some superb goals and plenty of incident. It might be a bit surreal at times, but I think it's proving well worth the effort to get the season finished in the top two divisions.
I'm also really enjoying it, far more than I thought I would. The thought of some socially distance playoff watching in the garden with some friends is really exciting too
I went and had a drink with one of my closest friends on Thursday evening. We did the same three weeks ago. On the first occasion, it was great simply to catch up, not having seen each other for months. On Thursday, it was great to be able to talk about football again!
We'll definitely find a way to get together for the play-off games if City can manage to hang in there. But regardless of what happens from here on in, in my opinion it's already so much better than just cancelling the season would have been.
I agree, and although I had no hugely strong opinions about it I suppose I was leaning more towards cancelling the season than not. I certainly didn't expect to be straight back in to footy mode. I guess that's what 2 wins on the trot can do.
I've been putting the telly in the garden when it's sunny and having a mate round to watch whatever footy's on, few beers, some food, light the chimnea when it cools down a bit later on, heaven
Absolutely. It's opened things up for me. I use football as a way of punctuating my working week, i really means quite a lot to me and i've missed it. I'm really pleased for Glatzel and Harris. All those who wanted Football cancelled because of covid 19 are officially idiots!
Obviously the two wins really help but it does prove what football means, I was excited for days before the Preston game and now the Charlton game is a perfect midweek boost. So glad now that we’re playing again, just hope it all goes off covid free or as near as dammit.
I did say at the start of this thread that behind closed doors football wasn't for me, especially after watching a German game, where there was an eerie silence.
I must admit though, since the English game started back up, I've really enjoyed it, now that they've added the sound of the crowd ( Great Human league track).
Even the cardboard cut outs at Elland Rd added a bit to it 😁
Have City timed their run to perfection?