English Football is Cancelled

Originally Posted by tatty

The revenue hit to United may be enough to prompt the Glazers' to sell up.

Liverpool denied the title and the Saudi's buy us in time to spend eleventy billion on new players for next season.

It's going to hit a lot of clubs very, very hard. How will they pay their wage bills without gate receipts?

Originally Posted by BarryX

It's going to hit a lot of clubs very, very hard. How will they pay their wage bills without gate receipts?

To be honest i've no idea what the financial implications are; would the FA cover gate losses? Insurance? Already paid up from broadcasters?

If there is a large financial hit to the clubs themselves some may not be around for too long if this drags on in to next season.

Originally Posted by tatty

To be honest i've no idea what the financial implications are; would the FA cover gate losses? Insurance? Already paid up from broadcasters?

If there is a large financial hit to the clubs themselves some may not be around for too long if this drags on in to next season.

the prem clubs will feel the bite

lower league clubs will go to the wall

Originally Posted by Sparky***

the prem clubs will feel the bite

lower league clubs will go to the wall

I think in the circumstances, there will be pressure to bail them out.

Insurance / government bail out...

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

I think in the circumstances, there will be pressure to bail them out.

All 92 of them? Would be impossible...

Originally Posted by BarryX

All 92 of them? Would be impossible...

they're insured, but only for a limited period of time.

Originally Posted by BarryX

All 92 of them? Would be impossible...

It was cost next to nothing for the government to bail out L1 and L2 clubs.

Even giving grants to Championship clubs to keep them afloat would be well worth the PR opportunity....dress it up as saving the very social fabric of society...whilst giving some tinpot team £10k to tide them over.

The alternative would be millions of bitter and angry fans waiting at the next GE to give the government a kicking for letting their clubs fail.

Originally Posted by tatty

It was cost next to nothing for the government to bail out L1 and L2 clubs.

Even giving grants to Championship clubs to keep them afloat would be well worth the PR opportunity....dress it up as saving the very social fabric of society...whilst giving some tinpot team £10k to tide them over.

The alternative would be millions of bitter and angry fans waiting at the next GE to give the government a kicking for letting their clubs fail.

I’m sure giving Championship clubs enough money to cover the cost of a months wages for the average player in the league below will help no end.

Originally Posted by BarryX

It's going to hit a lot of clubs very, very hard. How will they pay their wage bills without gate receipts?

Insurance

Business interruption

They have to comply with directives that are a direct result of this event

Originally Posted by Switching Off

Said it before but they have been going non stop for 2 years. They have some great players but they have some average ones playing way above their ability. It was sustainable while they could see that title in sight. I figured once they'd won it they'd more or less collapse.

What I figured. Other teams start raising their game, know how to combat them better. Different mentality at Liverpool and sense of mission accomplished. Win it this year and they’d revert to whatever their mean is next year, maybe having lost a few key players who want a payday having climbed their Mount Everest.. Being denied the title this way could either demoralise them or spur them on next season in a way that wouldn’t otherwise have happened..

Originally Posted by Zorg

'Bummer...so we were just pulling away at the top when they cancelled it?'
'...yeah...j.. well, we were 25 points clear'

Tbh, it’s done them a favour. They’d just started on a run which would have saw the biggest collapse in football history. The evidence is there. The Scouse can’t deny it. They got lucky.

I guess we'll never know what might have happened. Sad that city were denied the chance to come back?

I'll all for giving liverpool some sort of award just not the real title that you win after playing all teams home and away over a full season. Let's not dimish that real achievement because someone made it 80% of the way.

Originally Posted by The taste of...

Insurance

Business interruption

They have to comply with directives that are a direct result of this event

Bet Lloyds are shitting themselves. Worst case scenario and it won't be just a large number of those clubs who come knocking, all at the same time. Who insures the people who insure insurers?

Originally Posted by BarryX

Who insures the people who insure insurers?

ReReinsurers?

I personallly take no delight that the football season has been brought to halt by such an extreme cirucumstances so in that regrad i'm sorry for Liverpool their season has come to primature end, this virus is interupting all normal life around the globe. Folks that will get it will will in most cases not be very sick. Others will become sick other very sick and many will need insensitve cere and pepole will die old pepole can die very easily.

Originally Posted by JamesPolk

I personallly take no delight that the football season has been brought to halt by such an extreme cirucumstances so in that regrad i'm sorry for Liverpool their season has come to primature end, this virus is interupting all normal life around the globe. Folks that will get it will will in most cases not be very sick. Others will become sick other very sick and many will need insensitve cere and pepole will die old pepole can die very easily.

Thanks for that Boris.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Thanks for that Boris.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Thanks for that Boris.

Originally Posted by waynes ear's

“Insensitive care”

“You’re ill. So what?”

Originally Posted by armchair

I'll all for giving liverpool some sort of award just not the real title that you win after playing all teams home and away over a full season. Let's not dimish that real achievement because someone made it 80% of the way.

That would be the best outcome, giving them a trophy but not the actual premier league trophy.

I'm convinced that they've been put on earth solely for our amusement