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All Professional Football suspended Until April

strettea red said:
Careful, the rules here are quite clear. You can be as vitriolic as you like, in your rabid abusive criticism of the UK Government and opposition, but say anything that even rhymes with reproach of another country, you'll be branded racist; either directly or with a highly amusing gif.
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fixed that for you
 
ZedRed said:
I think it's time that countries around the world started looking for other solutions than Chinese money until the Chinese government puts a number of reforms in place.

Time they started playing by the same rules as everyone else.
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Zed, you're an optimist.
 
From today's Athletic:

Several leading sports lawyers have raised serious doubts about the implications of extending the season beyond June 30, with one lawyer saying it is simply "not realistic", while another said the situation would be an "absolute nightmare".

The crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic is, of course, bigger than football or any other sport, but that does not mean the professional game is not dealing with significant and unprecedented challenges.

One of the most complicated issues is how to finish the current season in Europe, where many players' contracts expire on June 30, a hard deadline to end one season and start another that nobody expected would be forced to move.

But that is the predicament facing administrators, clubs, leagues and players as they try to work out how to preserve the integrity of their competitions, as well as satisfy their various broadcast and commercial contracts, assuming their respective governments let them do so.

"If the season is to be extended beyond June 30, clubs are going to want to extend some of their expiring contracts, but they are unlikely to want to hand out new three-year deals, so they are very likely to be short-term deals," says Nick De Marco QC, a barrister with Blackstone Chambers.

"But this presents a perennial problem for players: if you get injured while playing on a short-term contract, you could find yourself without a job. Now, it makes sense for all parties to negotiate and find a way through this, but it is not required for players to agree to these short-term extensions under English law."

Dan Lowen, a sports contract specialist at London-based law firm Level, agrees with De Marco.

"Some with expiring contracts may be delighted to be paid by their clubs for a few more weeks or months, but others will refuse to accept any extension as they won’t want to jeopardise a long-term or better contract with a new club," says Lowen.

A working group set up by world football's governing body FIFA to look at the regulatory issues posed by the pandemic has recently sent a report to the game's stakeholders.

In this report, which The Athletic has seen, FIFA says the "three core matters" that must be addressed are expiring contracts, the "appropriate timing" for the next transfer window (currently scheduled to open on July 1) and "frustrated" agreements that can no longer be fulfilled because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The concept of frustration exists in common law systems, like England's, and civil law systems, such as Switzerland's, where FIFA is based. In simple terms, it says contracts can be set aside if an unforeseen event makes it impossible for the contract to be fulfilled.
 
Club Brugge awarded Championship in Belgium, given how unlikely it is that season can 'safely' finish by 30-6-2020.

French TV channel (Canal +), seeking to use 'force majeure' to be able to get out of contractual payments to clubs/leagues.

Many football clubs now 'furloughing' non playing staff and yet the PFA 'currently' seek to protect the wages of players.

If ever there was a time that we're all in this together?!
 
RFU are using a "best playing record formula" in cancelling their season.

Apparently, if used in the championship, the current top 3 would go up automatically.

We would finish on 75 points (four off promotion) and get fuck all
 
Any club in Liverpool's position deserves to be crowned champions. They are quite clearly the champions of the PL. Yes they can mathematically be caught (but everyone knows they won't be) so they 'deserve' it, in my opinion
 
JC21 said:
Any club in Liverpool's position deserves to be crowned champions. They are quite clearly the champions of the PL. Yes they can mathematically be caught (but everyone knows they won't be) so they 'deserve' it, in my opinion
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If that is your opinion, fine.

But Coventry are worthy champions of League one.

Barnsley are worth relegatees of the championship.

Sheffield United deserve to be in Europe and Leicester in the CL.

What sort of system gives just deserts to only one team out of 92?

I don't really care how many points they are ahead. It's the same trophy whether it's by 30 points or one goal.

And they haven't actually won it yet.
 
Players in the premier League being asked to take a 30% pay cut.

£125m to the EFL and conference and £20m to the NHS.

Can't argue with that
 
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