Coronavirus and football.

[Ram59]

Difficult to get much spin when wearing gloves, I should imagine.

[Trickytreesreds]

Waddle calls for season abandonment.
Personally, I believe it is the fairest route.

However, I'd expect to see FFP button reset, to the start of the season.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport...united-4087210

[MadAmster]

Load of twaddle from Waddle? He seems to forget that the KNVB had its hand forced by the government. Every pro game in NL has to have a permit from the authorities. The government decreed no football until September 1st at the earliest. The KNVB could do no other.

Anyone know if the French government had a hand in the FFF's decision?

[macstheman]

Reported in the Telegraph that in order to complete the season the EFL will have to carry out 66,000 tests!!
Mmmm, now if it goes ahead and that is correct methinks the general public might be a bit miffed if the tests remain in short supply!!

[MadAmster]

Reported in the Telegraph that in order to complete the season the EFL will have to carry out 66,000 tests!!
Mmmm, now if it goes ahead and that is correct methinks the general public might be a bit miffed if the tests remain in short supply!!

Not going to argue with the Telegraph. I had read (can't remember where) that there would be a maximum of 300 people allowed at a game. Players, managers, coaching staff, medical staff, reporters, photographers, camera and sound operatives etc.

There are 12 matches in each weekly round. 300 per game is 3600. 9 rounds of matches to go makes 32,400 tests. All 3600 in the first round of matches will have had to be tested, say, half a dozen times. That's another 21600 making 54,000 in all.

66,000 isn't an unbelievable number............ for the Championship. They will, IMO need the same number for Leagues 1 and 2 and that brings the number up to 200,000.

If the tests are there and frontline workers aren't being deprived of testing and neither are Care Home residents and those in the "at risk groups" then, why not use 200K test kits to provide some light relief for those stuck at home. Nobody knows yet what effect the lockdown will have had on the nation's mental health and watching football, even if it's "only" on TV or via iFollow/ClubTV will be a boost to those still having to remain at home.

My verdict? Under the right circumstances, a good move. If one frontline worker or Care Home resident or at risk person can't get tested because somebody "related" to a game of football had to have one then I'd say scrap the season.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I suggest that we get our boots filled with watching the climax of the Bundesliga instead - they have so many test kits in their massive stockpile that a few hundred thousand wont matter to them.

All payers would of course also have to shave too in order to avoid beard and moustachio based cross contamination

[ramAnag]

Reported in the Telegraph that in order to complete the season the EFL will have to carry out 66,000 tests!!
Mmmm, now if it goes ahead and that is correct methinks the general public might be a bit miffed if the tests remain in short supply!!

Talking of things being in ‘short supply’, be that tests, PPE or masks...just heard that everyone in Tuscany is to be given thirty masks a month.
Sounds like we can learn from the Italians too.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Are masks not washable or reuseable more than once? That's gonna be one muttha****a of a toxic landfill...........

[Ram59]

Talking of things being in ‘short supply’, be that tests, PPE or masks...just heard that everyone in Tuscany is to be given thirty masks a month.
Sounds like we can learn from the Italians too.

Maybe we need send the SAS to Tuscany, to get them for our NHS staff.

Where did you this, it seems a lot of masks?

[ramAnag]

Maybe we need send the SAS to Tuscany, to get them for our NHS staff.

Where did you this, it seems a lot of masks?

An English medical professor based in the outskirts of Florence being interviewed on Sky News.