Coronavirus and football.

[Andy_Faber]

Once its swept through the Uk and removed a large proportion of those who voted leave it will be calm down by the end of the month.

I’ve seen a lengthy discussion elsewhere on Social media started by someone even more bitter than you where the prevailing tone was that coronavirus is karma for the older generation for ‘all voting Brexit’. I’ll pass that message on to my elderly parent and in laws, all remain voters, and reassure them they will just be ‘collateral damage’...

[swaledale]

I’ve seen a lengthy discussion elsewhere on Social media started by someone even more bitter than you where the prevailing tone was that coronavirus is karma for the older generation for ‘all voting Brexit’. I’ll pass that message on to my elderly parent and in laws, all remain voters, and reassure them they will just be ‘collateral damage’...

FFS! Some people take things SO seriously! If your stupid enough to take anything posted by ****s on social media then good luck to you! And I'm not bitter so your wrong there! I think Brexit was a mistake, but I'm not bitter about it because it won't affect me in fact in a karmic way I've benefited more than those who voted leave will ha! ha!

As for the elderly ones got to die sometime, seems the older we get the more we panic about the prospect, very bizarre! I'd be more worried about the lack of staff to undertake jobs in social care and the health service.

[garibaldi]

Bahrain F1 race to be held behind closed doors, this will be the start now I reckon more host countries will start doing the same

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/51789298

I wonder if naughty Mel will still fudge the attendance figures?

[StensonRam]

Was your game vs Millwall was played behind closed doors, certainly looked like it

[garibaldi]

Was your game vs Millwall was played behind closed doors, certainly looked like it

A fantastically constructed sentence!

[StensonRam]

The owners of F1 Liberty Media charge the promotor a hosting fee of many many millions and each year the fee increases by about 3%, those countries that get government subsidies have to file the costs so with a bit of digging you can find out what it cost, Silverstone on the otherhand gets no government help so their hosting fee is somewhat a secret or difficult to guess, again it'll be on a sliding scale at 3% increase a year so on a 10 year contract they'll end up paying 30% more than they started out at but we don't know what they started at. However paying this is the easy part of the process. The race organisers then have to sell all the tickets, pay staff, Police and ambulance including 2 air ambulances, insurances etc and then promote the event and hope people come, and they do, they normally sell out yet Silverstone rarely break even, sometimes make a loss so without any spectators, holding a race behind closed doors certainly Silverstone well it wouldn't exsist.....it can't.

On a much smaller scale it makes you wonder how much it hurts a club to have a match played behind closed doors, if the govermant ban mass movement of people I think we'll soon find out

[ramAnag]

The owners of F1 Liberty Media charge the promotor a hosting fee of many many millions and each year the fee increases by about 3%, those countries that get government subsidies have to file the costs so with a bit of digging you can find out what it cost, Silverstone on the otherhand gets no government help so their hosting fee is somewhat a secret or difficult to guess, again it'll be on a sliding scale at 3% increase a year so on a 10 year contract they'll end up paying 30% more than they started out at but we don't know what they started at. However paying this is the easy part of the process. The race organisers then have to sell all the tickets, pay staff, Police and ambulance including 2 air ambulances, insurances etc and then promote the event and hope people come, and they do, they normally sell out yet Silverstone rarely break even, sometimes make a loss so without any spectators, holding a race behind closed doors certainly Silverstone well it wouldn't exsist.....it can't.

On a much smaller scale it makes you wonder how much it hurts a club to have a match played behind closed doors, if the govermant ban mass movement of people I think we'll soon find out

Big implications anyway.
We’ve lived through scares such as Polio, Smallpox, AIDS, Swine flu, Bird flu, Ebola, Chernobyl, terrorism etc, but this is the first time I can remember sports events being cancelled apart from, as a preventative measure in some areas, to prevent the spread of foot and mouth.
Not sure what that tells us or if those that still think it’s all an overreaction may still have a point.

[Geoff Parkstone]

"... Again it'll be on a sliding scale at 3% increase a year so on a 10 year contract they'll end up paying 30% more than they started out at...."

Actually they won't because across 10 years there will only be 9 increases (in years 2 to 10). Also probability is that the increase will be compound.

Which makes a 30.477% increase if compounded and 27% if not.

Just saying......

[StensonRam]

Theres always one!

[AdiSalisbury]

The owners of F1 Liberty Media charge the promotor a hosting fee of many many millions and each year the fee increases by about 3%, those countries that get government subsidies have to file the costs so with a bit of digging you can find out what it cost, Silverstone on the otherhand gets no government help so their hosting fee is somewhat a secret or difficult to guess, again it'll be on a sliding scale at 3% increase a year so on a 10 year contract they'll end up paying 30% more than they started out at but we don't know what they started at. However paying this is the easy part of the process. The race organisers then have to sell all the tickets, pay staff, Police and ambulance including 2 air ambulances, insurances etc and then promote the event and hope people come, and they do, they normally sell out yet Silverstone rarely break even, sometimes make a loss so without any spectators, holding a race behind closed doors certainly Silverstone well it wouldn't exsist.....it can't.

On a much smaller scale it makes you wonder how much it hurts a club to have a match played behind closed doors, if the govermant ban mass movement of people I think we'll soon find out

Thruxton is alive and kicking, so we have a fall back!