Coronavirus and football.

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Papers telling stories that pubs could be shut until Xmas?

If so, the chances of a football crowd assembling are zero.

Suspect both those scenarios are likely to be true, Tricky.

Another factor is, even when the lockdown is eased sufficiently for football crowds to gather again, there may still be age, health and social distancing factors to be considered. I know that parts of grounds tend to be full of 15-30 something year olds but there are an awful lot in the 55-75+ category too.

Things are, imo, going to be very different for a very long time.

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Suspect both those scenarios are likely to be true, Tricky.

Another factor is, even when the lockdown is eased sufficiently for football crowds to gather again, there may still be age, health and social distancing factors to be considered. I know that parts of grounds tend to be full of 15-30 something year olds but there are an awful lot in the 55-75+ category too.

Things are, imo, going to be very different for a very long time.

Quite true RA.

My question is, folks are flapping about this season. But next season is going to be a joke as well.

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Quite true RA.

My question is, folks are flapping about this season. But next season is going to be a joke as well.

Different problems. We have to work out a way of resolving matters that are over 75% complete for this season.

Next season - and the transfer window in between - will certainly be different, and I’m fairly sure it won’t be kicking off in August. Not necessarily a ‘joke’ though.