Coronavirus and football.

[swaledale]

So far as I am aware there is no rule allowing partial voiding of games for a team that is unable to fulfill a fixture

Which means that the EFL will have to meet to agree a course of action and get clubs to vote on it. Not sure what majority is required but it could be 75% of the clubs need to agree.

[ramAnag]

[QUOTE=swaledale;39467170]Which means that the EFL will have to meet to agree a course of action and get clubs to vote on it.[QUOTE]

Again...exactly.

We can all agree that continuing the season normally is not going to happen and that April 30th is no longer relevant.

We can all agree that playing matches behind closed doors would be the next best thing but that may prove impossible.

We can all agree that Liverpool would have gone on to win the League and Bolton would have been relegated to L2.

Beyond that it becomes more complicated and the ‘losers’ are likely to be upset...but being upset with something and that something being unfair are two very different things.

So if we can’t play matches behind closed doors we have to have a solution to avoid next season being as much of a mess as this one.

Personally I favour a ‘virtual end’ over abandonment because the season is so near completion. I think the only precedents for a season being abandoned were the two World War seasons, but seeing as those two wars were declared in August and September respectively that doesn’t help.

If we have ‘virtual’ ends it isn’t perfect...nothing is in this situation...but it can be fair.

So if we take the current points tally and add on the average points per game total, what’s wrong with that?

It would need to be done taking account of home and away form because some clubs - little old us for instance - have very different home (2nd at 1.94 ppg) records and away (21st at 0.7 ppg) records.

Looking to where it really matters...i.e. the top...Leeds 3rd best home record and 2nd best away record v WBA best away record but only 8th best home record...this would almost certainly - I haven’t checked ‘cos even I am losing the will to live - give Leeds the title.

I’m not happy about that and I’m sure fans of WBA wouldn’t be either but that’s not the point...the point is...is it doable and is it fair? In my opinion...perfectly.
Of course fans of Norwich, West Ham, Barnsley, Bolton and the like will have their own agenda but we have to look beyond vested interest of which, for once, there is none at Derby, and arrive at a fair solution.

[MadAmster]

we have to look beyond vested interest of which, for once, there is none at Derby, and arrive at a fair solution.

Ah but. yeah but, no but.... we wuz jus' 'ittin' form n wudda won the last 9 so da's 27 points to add on. 78 in total, Playoffs innit? yer... right gangsta!