Coronavirus and football.

[ramAnag]

Purely my opinion but that will would be a sensible way to go - ease the lockdown but ban all mass gatherings. Not a happy situation for those who get their thrills or earn their livelihoods in the world of sport or music. Music has already moved online albeit the means of monetising it are difficult, I think sport will be a behind closed doors thing for some time.

Wot no cricket!

That’s four planned theatre trips and one gig - all bought and paid for - b******d then!

Can’t help but agree with you though Andy. At a totally selfish level...what chance of my planned trip to southern Spain materialising in Sept/October?

[Andy_Faber]

Wot no cricket!

That’s four planned theatre trips and one gig - all bought and paid for - b******d then!

Can’t help but agree with you though Andy. At a totally selfish level...what chance of my planned trip to southern Spain materialising in Sept/October?

I think county cricket does very adequate social distancing anyway so should be ok!

[ramAnag]

I think county cricket does very adequate social distancing anyway so should be ok!

But what about Bumble...the ‘voice of summer’? He always spends more time talking about the crowd than the cricket.
Near the top of my list of things I’m likely to miss this summer.

[MadAmster]

Purely my opinion but that will would be a sensible way to go - ease the lockdown but ban all mass gatherings. Not a happy situation for those who get their thrills or earn their livelihoods in the world of sport or music. Music has already moved online albeit the means of monetising it are difficult, I think sport will be a behind closed doors thing for some time.

I'll let you know what they announce in their Tuesday Press Conference.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Wot no cricket!

That’s four planned theatre trips and one gig - all bought and paid for - b******d then!

Can’t help but agree with you though Andy. At a totally selfish level...what chance of my planned trip to southern Spain materialising in Sept/October?

I think the Spanish tourist industry will be well and truly ****ed if its still closed by October, but its possible. A lot of museums are not reopening till November.... And you must assume your airfares will be at least double with vacant seats trying to social distance - until someone behind you sneezes on you.

[Geoff Parkstone]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a9470056.html

Saves me repeating it

[ramAnag]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a9470056.html

Saves me repeating it

Now that’s how to use a link!

I was thinking of driving, if it’s allowed...how we used to live again...hate bloody airports anyway.

[Andy_Faber]

Now that’s how to use a link!

I was thinking of driving, if it’s allowed...how we used to live again...hate bloody airports anyway.

Mrs F and her aunt (who is employed in the tourist industry in Spain) are all over the issue and the tourist industry is lobbying for opening in June, but under the informal phrase 'For 2020, Spain is for the Spanish'. Conditional non-Spanish entry by car and ferry 'some time' and re-entry for folk with residency (ie my in-laws, who of course can't leave their house here) or semi-residency (ie Mrs F and I, not Mrs F will even leave the house!). All a bit of a mess. We are neighbours with a chap who runs a loosely Leicester city-based cafe where our place is, and he has publicised that he is opening the first day Spanish law allows, my guess is its his only course of income and if he can't make it work its curtains for him. There are lots of hand-to-mouth operations like that in Spain, many I think are doomed.

[ramAnag]

Mrs F and her aunt (who is employed in the tourist industry in Spain) are all over the issue and the tourist industry is lobbying for opening in June, but under the informal phrase 'For 2020, Spain is for the Spanish'. Conditional non-Spanish entry by car and ferry 'some time' and re-entry for folk with residency (ie my in-laws, who of course can't leave their house here) or semi-residency (ie Mrs F and I, not Mrs F will even leave the house!). All a bit of a mess. We are neighbours with a chap who runs a loosely Leicester city-based cafe where our place is, and he has publicised that he is opening the first day Spanish law allows, my guess is its his only course of income and if he can't make it work its curtains for him. There are lots of hand-to-mouth operations like that in Spain, many I think are doomed.

Holidays, like football, are as Klopp suggested, amongst the ‘most important of the least important things’.

We have access to a property high in the hills above the Med. It’s owned by a lovely Spanish family who no longer even bother to ask for any sort of deposit. We just turn up and hand over the cash.
There won’t be a problem with the property, but I appreciate that it may be harder than usual to get there and there’s no point in going to a place where Coronavirus has reappeared because everything reopened too early anyway.

On the other hand, although we don’t spend that much time in the bigger coastal towns, it is impossible to imagine how they are going to survive without tourists. Avocados, olives, fruit and wine all play a significant part in the economy of that part of Andalusia but first and foremost is tourism.

[swaledale]

Now that’s how to use a link!

I was thinking of driving, if it’s allowed...how we used to live again...hate bloody airports anyway.

Well you could drive to the High peak Trail now the Government has clarified that driving a short distance to undertake daily exercise is permitted providing the duration of the drive is shorter than the period of exercise.