Covid-19 & Football
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So sorry to hear the news mate. No man should go through that when you have a choice of at least Guinness or Buxton.
They've gotta cancel. The euros surely?
Across multiple countries, with people literally flying all over fucking Europe from game to game?! With some almost in fucking Asia?!
It's a pandemic dream come true that.
Across multiple countries, with people literally flying all over fucking Europe from game to game?! With some almost in fucking Asia?!
It's a pandemic dream come true that.
Thats in the summer though, the pattern at the moment is that thing likes cold, not hot places. May go dormont by summer.
I think football without fans looks and sounds absolutely ghastly. How about this creative solution:
Identify 10 football pitches in remote locations such as small islands around the UK, the kinds of places where there is maybe a village of a hundred people and a few goats and the coronavirus is unlikely to reach in the near future. Strictly allow only the locals to attend, bring the TV crews in and play double-headers for every round: one Premier League game and one Championship game right before or after. This will feel a lot more like a real football match with real fans, for the locals it will be the event of a lifetime and after this epidemic passes it will be viewed as an iconic event in the history of the Premier League – world class players battling it out on a dirt pitch in the middle of nowhere. There will be movies made about this.
Identify 10 football pitches in remote locations such as small islands around the UK, the kinds of places where there is maybe a village of a hundred people and a few goats and the coronavirus is unlikely to reach in the near future. Strictly allow only the locals to attend, bring the TV crews in and play double-headers for every round: one Premier League game and one Championship game right before or after. This will feel a lot more like a real football match with real fans, for the locals it will be the event of a lifetime and after this epidemic passes it will be viewed as an iconic event in the history of the Premier League – world class players battling it out on a dirt pitch in the middle of nowhere. There will be movies made about this.
Have the games in Saudi Arabia, this doing it on small islands with small populations has a historical thing that reminds me of discovery of america when visitors from the old world took a load of deseases and killed off the natives.
How the flying fuck are they going to ban over 70s ?
"I'm 69 yer cunt, fuck off " at every single turnstile.
"I'm 69 yer cunt, fuck off " at every single turnstile.
To be fair about a third of our season ticket holders are over 100.
Arent they predicting this to calm down in a month or two? The Euros arent until this summer, so there is plenty of time regardless.
Stop killing my dreams, you bastard.
Who is predicting that? WHO just said it’s a “false hope” that it will disappear in the summer like the flu. The truth is nobody knows.
No - it can get very cold there - they do get snow and have ski resorts (for them of course). Would be interested to know if their outbreak is predominantly in the north of the country, the south of it is warmer from what I understand.
Well considering it's still spreading in Australia, the hopes of heat stopping it are fucking ridiculous. Slowing it down, sure, stopping it, no. For too many large spaces are air conditioned & ideal for transferring viruses in any modernised country.
Singapore is a very interesting country in this regard. There were infections there very early in the rise of this virus however they have certainly not taken off even though Singapore has intimate connections with China in terms of business and tourism. As of today they have still only had 138 reported infections (0 deaths). The same applies to Malaysia, Philippines and to Thailand.
Now this could be due to simple suppression of figures (cf Russia / Philippines etc. from the graph I've posted below from The Economist) or to poor / non-existent testing or failure to report (fear, ineptitude, inefficiency). However if taking all countries as a block, and even allowing for a degree of suppression, it would suggest the virus doesn't survive or transmit with the same efficiency as in colder climes.
Can see games being played behind closed doors but can’t see the league being cancelled.
Serie A was just about to kick off this weekend with empty stands, and 1 minute before the players were about to start in Parma - Spal the Minister of Sport in Italy demanded them to stop as they are considering suspending the games today as well.
No wonder Italy are one of the worst countries regarding contagion when clowns like this are in charge.
No wonder Italy are one of the worst countries regarding contagion when clowns like this are in charge.
We had it here in Austria - the matches went ahead as scheduled.
Had a report come up on my phone, 1.3Billion people on the African Continent - hardly affected despite weaker health systems in place. The comedian Trevor Noah - thinks Corona is too scared to go up against Ebola !!! - anyway the specialists cannot explain it at the moment because originally they were expecting a high rate due to the travel between China and the African continent (with China's investment in Africa - there is a lot of stuff going between them and certain African states). The other theory reported is that Corona struggles to spread due to the African Ecosystem - a theory that is not widely supported.
But it is a strain of some Flu virus - and that alone is an indicator that it will be slow in hotter climates or just not be that effective. Also does anyone know how they measure in Europe who has it ? - I mean the symptoms and all are just the same as Flu initially with the fever and all that bollox.
But it is a strain of some Flu virus - and that alone is an indicator that it will be slow in hotter climates or just not be that effective. Also does anyone know how they measure in Europe who has it ? - I mean the symptoms and all are just the same as Flu initially with the fever and all that bollox.
Good luck trying to get a straight answer to that one.
Elisa/PCR/genome analysis/buttercup under the chin ?
So that's Germany, France & Italy all cancelling large gatherings. Its only a matter of time. FFS.
Can you fucking imagine town if the match where we could win it is behind closed doors? It'd be fucking insane.
It won't stop the actual match day gatherings though, just move them to pubs. You know, with often unsanitary toilets, overworked staff who chat possibly wash their hands between handling everyone's glasses, & people drinking so much they hug strangers.
It's not exactly a great strategy imo.
It's not exactly a great strategy imo.
What do you expect?
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