EPTAs of right now, It's all about the green light of merkel, she will announce it on 5th or 6th may. Bundesliga want to start at 9th may (earliest date).
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Dingodile
4135 Posts
As of right now, It's all about the green light of merkel, she will announce it on 5th or 6th may. Bundesliga want to start at 9th may (earliest date). | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
So teams are currently training their asses off in a pre season drill session for them to be told it could be off...seems bit crazy | ||
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sneirac
Germany3464 Posts
Also makes it unlikely to have games on 11th with two days notice, expect the 18th to be lot more realistic. | ||
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haitike
Spain2716 Posts
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DropBear
Australia4371 Posts
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haitike
Spain2716 Posts
On April 29 2020 01:48 DropBear wrote: On the Dutch league cancellation, keep in mind that their government cancelled all "public events" until September 1. It is very doubtful that the Dutch FA actually wanted to cancel the season, they had no choice. Ignore my post, my brain fucked it. | ||
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mahrgell
Germany3943 Posts
On April 29 2020 02:00 haitike wrote: I think the main complain about Dutch FA is not the cancellation. It is that they decided to base the final standings (title, CL spots, EL spots, promotions, relegations) on the last week of play. Hm? There are no title and no promotions and demotions (except 2 promotions due to the increase from 18 to 20 teams) in the Dutch league. Also Ligue1 is most likely also cancelled, at least PM Phillippe today said in front of the national assembly that the continuation of the 19/20 season of professional sports leagues won't be allowed. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
On April 28 2020 20:00 haitike wrote: Today It died the most loved Brit in Spain and probably the most loved pundit too, Michael Robinson. After playing more than 300 matches with Liverpool he came to Spain (played 3 seasons in Osasuna) and then he became famous as pundit. We enjoyed his match commentary (with his famous British accent) for 3 decades. And he had a TV show (Informe Robinson) with high quality football content. RIP. Yeah RIP  Also FIFA Chief Medical Officer has said he does not recommend football resume until 1st September which kills every league lol, however that is just his opinion might not be FIFA as a whole.. With France government now also shutting their season down, that means both Dutch and French clubs are out of Europe now? Surely UEFA cannot continue those competitions now? I think it is looking more and more likely all seasons will be finished up and go for a September resumption of new season. On a semi related note, a Japanese medical expert/officer can't remember exactly his job role, but he has cast doubt on whether the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will even happen period, not even next summer if a Vaccine is not found "soon". | ||
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Twisted
Netherlands13554 Posts
On April 29 2020 02:18 mahrgell wrote: Hm? There are no title and no promotions and demotions (except 2 promotions due to the increase from 18 to 20 teams) in the Dutch league. Also Ligue1 is most likely also cancelled, at least PM Phillippe today said in front of the national assembly that the continuation of the 19/20 season of professional sports leagues won't be allowed. Dutch league will have no promotions either (big scandal with trials upcoming initiated by the disadvantaged clubs). Mind you, Cambuur had an 11 point gap to the number 3 in our second league with 9 matches remaining (top 2 are promoted) and RKC was 11 points behind number 16 in our first league with 8 matches to go. No way Cambuur would give that up and RKC still avoiding demotion. ADO Den Haag was also 7 points behind 16th place. No-one thought they were gonna make it either (and almost everyone wants them gone anyway). Of course the KNVB (Dutch football association) bungled the job here. They actually had a vote among all clubs in both divisions, whether the clubs at 17/18 respectively 1/2 should demote/promote. The vote tally was 16 in favour, 9 against and 9 no-votes. The KNVB haphazardly decided that since there was no absolute majority (18 against/no-vote vs 16 in favour), they shouldn't promote/demote, which was a ridiculous decision. It's like this. KNVB: "hey let's do a vote, who wants pizza and who wants Chinese? We can only have one." Clubs: "16 pizza, 9 Chinese, 9 don't care". KNVB: "Okay let's do Chinese". Then there's the matter of FC Utrecht having 1 match in hand (against Ajax) in which they could jump over Willem II at fifth place, which would've put them in the qualification pool for the Europa League. Now Willem II has that spot, while they've played 1 match more. Ah well, maybe we won't even have football after September 1st either, so all this doesn't matter. I'm not entirely sure how UEFA wants to handle all the qualification rounds anyway, with all governments deciding differently when football is allowed again. If they decide qualification should start around August 1st, then I guess Dutch football clubs should ask German clubs if they can lend their stadium or something. | ||
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Twisted
Netherlands13554 Posts
On April 28 2020 20:00 haitike wrote: Today It died the most loved Brit in Spain and probably the most loved pundit too, Michael Robinson. After playing more than 300 matches with Liverpool he came to Spain (played 3 seasons in Osasuna) and then he became famous as pundit. We enjoyed his match commentary (with his famous British accent) for 3 decades. And he had a TV show (Informe Robinson) with high quality football content. RIP. That's sad . What age did he reach? Rest in peace. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18481 Posts
So either you also need to cancel next season or do what Germany is doing - try to find a solution for the whole corona mess and save professional sports. It will also force more people to stay at home and watch TV instead of going out and spreading virus or getting frustrated/depressed at home. If covid appears in football clubs again, then yes we have to stop again but at least Germany TRIED. This sticking your head in the sand solution of France/Netherlands - shame on them. | ||
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haitike
Spain2716 Posts
On April 29 2020 15:00 Twisted wrote: That's sad . What age did he reach? Rest in peace.61 years | ||
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Twisted
Netherlands13554 Posts
While the number of our intensive care unit keeps dropping, they'll keep extending more freedom in the taken measures, but that's not opening up football, but opening up elementary schools and daycare so people can actually go to work. I have two young children (3 weeks and 2,5 years old) and my girlfriend is on pregnancy leave and I can work from home so we make it work, but other people (my sister-in-law for example) have to combine work while homeschooling a couple kids of 4 and 10. But I'm glad daycare is opening up May 11th, so my daughter can spend 2 days away from home, playing with kids and me being able to work 2 days fulltime without distractions. These things are more important for society than football (apart from the fact that it seems that corona doesn't affect kids much, so they've leaned towards opening up elementary schools and daycare locations). And to shame our governments who are doing the best they can to limit the spread of the virus, while trying to maintain the economy and other societal problems, is very shortsighted. Our prime minister particularly spoke about professional football also being denied, so I don't think it's a shortsighted decision at all. I think they've thought about it for a while but leaned towards not extending privilege to professional football. I would love it if football starts up again, not only for my viewing pleasure, but also because the economic impact on the clubs themselves won't be too severe. On April 29 2020 20:58 haitike wrote: 61 years Ugh, too young | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25875 Posts
On April 29 2020 20:58 haitike wrote: I also don't understand why players can't play behind closed doors in June/July, but all the other workers in the country will go to the office, use public transport, etc. It is not a mass audience event if you don't have audience. 61 years That’s a shame, he didn’t have much of a profile over here but from a podcast obituary and what you said he was really loved over in Spain. I like the German initiative here, they seem to be the only federation actually preparing for some form of football under these kind of conditions. Near everyone else is cancelling seasons and I don’t know why they are doing it now. There’s no guarantee that a vaccine will be available, or things will be close to back to normal to do next season. So why not just delay as late as possible? Hell of a lot easier finishing 7/9 games or whatever than 38 if does drag on | ||
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
Living in China, I can tell that a couple more months of being safe equals a lot less risks and almost no chance for a 2nd wave. Waiting for July/August to start having sports again isn't a bad thing, vaccine or not. The French league had to finish before end of August to allow for the next season to be completed. Let's not forget there's going to be a European Championship next June. And in France the TV rights went up BIG for next season, so if there's a season to sacrifice, it has to be the current one. I would have liked them not to go too fast to cancel it, they could have maybe finished it if things got better in a month, but they took the safe route and gave clubs a definitive answer which helps them organize themselves instead of speculating for weeks. I think we'll know if it was a good decision later. Spain, Italy and England might want to restart soon but who knows if they actually will. Even if they take the risk, which they probably should (for their country's economy, I mean), what if they have to stop it after a couple of games when some players get infected? That'd be terrible for the football image. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18481 Posts
On April 30 2020 17:13 WillyWanker wrote: The difference with Germany is that they test everybody and they have much less deaths. So they're ahead of every other country in Europe and can take different measures. Living in China, I can tell that a couple more months of being safe equals a lot less risks and almost no chance for a 2nd wave. Waiting for July/August to start having sports again isn't a bad thing, vaccine or not. The French league had to finish before end of August to allow for the next season to be completed. Let's not forget there's going to be a European Championship next June. And in France the TV rights went up BIG for next season, so if there's a season to sacrifice, it has to be the current one. I would have liked them not to go too fast to cancel it, they could have maybe finished it if things got better in a month, but they took the safe route and gave clubs a definitive answer which helps them organize themselves instead of speculating for weeks. I think we'll know if it was a good decision later. Spain, Italy and England might want to restart soon but who knows if they actually will. Even if they take the risk, which they probably should (for their country's economy, I mean), what if they have to stop it after a couple of games when some players get infected? That'd be terrible for the football image. But that only works under the assumption that next season will start normally and go on business like usual. Which it most definitely will not. Now France will need to use next season as a trial how to play under corona with all its problems. They have no concept, no idea what will happen, what will be the rules, etc. Germany will have months of trial and error to figure that out | ||
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Faruko
Chile34171 Posts
and he is the most fun ever, he talks in spanish tho twitch.tv/slakun10 | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25875 Posts
On May 02 2020 08:19 Faruko wrote: Aguero has a Twitch stream, no joke and he is the most fun ever, he talks in spanish tho twitch.tv/slakun10 Damn, shame my Spanish sucks. We’ve never got much exposure to Aguero’s personality that much over the years because he doesn’t tend to speak much in English. I’m not sure if he’s like Tevez in not really speaking the language or just isn’t comfortable. He’s appparently doing Spanish lessons for school kids as part of some BBC lockdown initiative so that’s all pretty cool. | ||
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