It's certainly a mess. The Government saying there's no scientific basis for cancelling outdoor sporting events, but clubs and leagues taking matters into their own hands (a rapidly changing situation this morning already with Arsenal, Portsmouth etc). The only way I can see to avoid a complete mess and get the season finished is for all games to be suspended for 2-3 weeks, with all clubs going into some kind of isolation. Then finish the season quickly and behind closed doors, working out some mechanism for fans to pay and watch online to try and keep revenues flowing in.ty cobb wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:29 pm What I imagine may derail us this season is the c-virus and the impact this will have on our (already dreadful) finances. It is only a matter of time before we see games being played behind closed doors/the season postponed. Given how much we are already losing this season, the financial impact on us will be significant, especially as we would expect some big gates in the last few games. I would hope they relax the broadcasting rules so we could all pay the club to watch it on yellow player.
If any squad player gets it, from our squad or a team we will be playing, they and the rest of the team will need to self isolate and the game would likely not go ahead - just look at the Arsenal, Man City game tonight, just a hint of a problem has resulted in it being called off.
I think the situation is going to get very messy very quickly and the health of everyone will rightly take priority but this will result in some clubs going into severe financial troubles.
Not that football is the most pressing concern at the moment, of course. But it reflects the challenges that all communities and businesses face, with plenty of livelihoods at stake.
What I want to know is why (relatively) so many high profile people have C-19 - footballers, actors, politicians etc. Is it just that international jet-setting makes transmission more likely? Or is it that these people have private health insurance and people looking after them, so are getting tested when the rest of us aren't? And if the latter, isn't it likely that far, far more of the population have (or have had) the disease than even yesterday's figures indicate? People being asked to self-isolate due to symptoms aren't even being asked to notify the NHS, much less get tested, so I don't see how anyone can begin to estimate or analyse the spread within the population at large.