Coronavirus in Football

[Burner Account]

Short of playing on a private island, I just can’t imagine any league playing 10+ rounds of fixtures without positive cases and spread.

 

[JoemAvs]

Short of playing on a private island, I just can’t imagine any league playing 10+ rounds of fixtures without positive cases and spread.

There will be positive cases.
But they will try to catch it early by doing as many tests as possible and quarantine the infected players immediately and then just postpone the games of the team in question for 2 weeks and go from there. Thats exactly what is happening with Dynamo Dresden in the second division of the Bundesliga right now.
Thats okay if it is only 2-3 teams affected. It becomes a huge problems if it becomes 5+ teams that are quarantined.
Thats why the overall infection rate in a country has to be under control before you can realistically even attempt this...

But with a bit of luck this seems doable to me...

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Short of playing on a private island, I just can’t imagine any league playing 10+ rounds of fixtures without positive cases and spread.

Honestly, the key for them is not to get all 10 rounds in but to get as much in as possible. It's naturally about money more than anything else. But then all relaxations of the lockdown are ultimately about money, so that's not surprising.

It seems obvious to me that whether it is all stores re-opening, restaurants & bars coming back, hotels, workers returning to their offices..all of those will lead to more infections. Infections are the price we pay for all human interaction in a cumulative sense. Where the line is drawn will depend on your perspective.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

There will be positive cases.
But they will try to catch it early by doing as many tests as possible and quarantine the infected players immediately and then just postpone the games of the team in question for 2 weeks and go from there. Thats exactly what is happening with Dynamo Dresden in the second division of the Bundesliga right now.
Thats okay if it is only 2-3 teams affected. It becomes a huge problems if it becomes 5+ teams that are quarantined.
Thats why the overall infection rate in a country has to be under control before you can realistically even attempt this...

But with a bit of luck this seems doable to me...

Well, what's happened with Dresden is that the entire team is quarantined because of a few infections in the squad, correct? So, it's not exactly accurate to say they're only quarantining the infected players. Quarantining entire squads (which is absolutely the correct move to stop the spread once an infection is identified) makes it impossible for league play to have any kind of continuity.

The whole thing is a complete house of cards. That much is obvious being that they've already quarantined an entire team before a ball has even been kicked in competition.

It sounds like you're saying something similar, I just don't know how you can feasibly play matches off and on quarantining teams for 2 weeks when infections pop up. And on the evidence, it will clearly keep happening. The infection rate has ticked up in Germany since the beginning of the re-opening.

 

[robertmac43]

Report: MLS proposes June 22 return with 4-5 week tournament in Orlando

Promising stuff from this side of the pond! Would love to see the MLS back but I'm not going to get my hopes up with the current Covid situation in the United States.

 

[Stray Wasp]

The Grauniad reports that UEFA has advised their 25 May deadline for leagues to submit resumption plans isn't a strict deadline - they just want 'some indications' of what's going to happen.

 

[Jussi]

Premier League captains pushing back against 'Project Restart'

The date for the Premier League’s ‘Project Restart’ has been put back at least another week to 19 June, after an intense day of discussion with club captains and coaching staff, that has seen the players demand more reassurances in order to go back.

 

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[robertmac43]

Well here comes another interesting season of 'Sunderland till I die'

 

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[Jussi]

Just when you think Asians can't get more kinkier...

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Kai as striker dont think ive seen that.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Anyone have a rundown of the target dates for each league?

Ive seen various stories of govt approving them resuming but with training and scheduling, it doesn’t necessarily align

Does the EPL have a target start date? La Liga?

Serie A is mid June?

 

[Savant]

Anyone have a rundown of the target dates for each league?

Ive seen various stories of govt approving them resuming but with training and scheduling, it doesn’t necessarily align

Does the EPL have a target start date? La Liga?

Serie A is mid June?

PL wants to open up in about a month.

I wouldn’t rely on any specific dates for any league though. This is still very fluid

 

[lamini]

Anyone have a rundown of the target dates for each league?

Ive seen various stories of govt approving them resuming but with training and scheduling, it doesn’t necessarily align

Does the EPL have a target start date? La Liga?

Serie A is mid June?

Not one of big leagues, but Czech league should start this Saturday...all teams and staff tested already, with the excpetion of one local hotspot the number of new cases is low in Czech republic, so it looks probable.

 

[Stray Wasp]

Anyone have a rundown of the target dates for each league?

Ive seen various stories of govt approving them resuming but with training and scheduling, it doesn’t necessarily align

Does the EPL have a target start date? La Liga?

Serie A is mid June?

No sooner did reports appear of 12 June being the target date for the EPL and La Liga than denials followed from officials.

With football as it goes with certain politicians - the desire to try and bring in some money compromised by fear of failing to take an anxious workforce and volatile public with them.

 

[Machinehead]

Anybody who wants to stay home should be able to. With pay.

 

[East Coast Bias]

La Liga coming back June 8th.

 

[HajdukSplit]

Not one of big leagues, but Czech league should start this Saturday...all teams and staff tested already, with the excpetion of one local hotspot the number of new cases is low in Czech republic, so it looks probable.

Also smaller league, Croatia has been playing closed door prep matches this week, the semifinals of the cup will resume next weekend while the league season will resume the first weekend in June with the season ending late July and cup final in early August. Nobody tested positive in the first round of tests. The summer transfer market has been extended to October 2020 (though I assume this is only domestic transfers as FIFA/UEFA haven't announced their plans). All leagues below the top flight are cancelled with the current table being used as final, so the champion of the second division should come up if all license issues go as planned. No relegation in the second division, so the league will be expanded for next season and only promotion playoffs will be played to fill those spots

 

[YNWA14]

Anybody who wants to stay home should be able to. With pay.

Why is that? The with pay part.

 

[Machinehead]

Why is that? The with pay part.

Because why the f*** not?

 

[lamini]

Not one of big leagues, but Czech league should start this Saturday...all teams and staff tested already, with the excpetion of one local hotspot the number of new cases is low in Czech republic, so it looks probable.

And it started today

 

[Burner Account]

Said around matchday that it would be looked back on as a mistake

Liverpool's clash against Atletico Madrid 'led to 41 additional deaths' | Daily Mail Online

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Said around matchday that it would be looked back on as a mistake

Liverpool's clash against Atletico Madrid 'led to 41 additional deaths' | Daily Mail Online

It was a mistake, but that's based on data modelling..and coming up with a number of 41 (not 40, not 42) from a computer model is a remarkable show of faith in your model that makes me a bit skeptical. If you're going to make that 41 claim you better come up with 41 names.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Said around matchday that it would be looked back on as a mistake

Liverpool's clash against Atletico Madrid 'led to 41 additional deaths' | Daily Mail Online

Think about Arteta testing positive is probably the only thing that prevented a full week of PL fixtures after this match. Cheltenham was still going on and the UK didn’t lock down for 7-10 days after this.