On the doorstep [Siouxsie] asks me whether right or left would be the best direction to find a taxi, and although her best bet would be left, I suggest she turns right. It is churlish of me, but it is she who has set the pace.
Joke tbh, think in the end they won't get finished but even if they can start on the 9th I don't know why they don't wait as long as possible. Surely the longer the safer? As an aside, why when football starts back are crowds going to not be allowed....now hear me out here....my theory is the shops will be open before the football starts won't it? (I might be wrong on that) so if city centres / shopping centres are open, then they have bigger capacities than even the biggest grounds....(old Trafford capacity is 80k but you get more than that in the trafford centre on a saturday). Seems to me sport - especially football - gets demonised, even though everyone likes it. And also trivialized "22 men kicking a ball about" which yeah it is, but its also a billion pound Industry with a lot of employees
the share price for the company that owns most big shopping centres (intu) suggests that they don't expect them to be opening anytime soon.
it's theoretically possible to keep social distancing going in shops, less so in shopping centres but obviously impossible in a sold out football ground. Germany is in a much better state than we are regarding the virus cos their nation isn't ran by clowns but restarting the Bundesliga still has a few obvious problems (tv crews should be risking their lives instead of safely at home? players should be getting tested before essential workers?) Those problems apply to the premier league too, there's talk of putting players in quarantine to finish the season, they don't have clauses in their contracts saying they can be locked up away from their families.
It's right from a sporting perspective that they TRY and also from a sporting perspective if they can get the games plsyed it makes it easier to sort out but I can't see it working....like a million to one shot of nothing going wrong. Other alternatives are a mess though, one way or another teams are gonna get shafted or benefit wrongly. From LFC's point of view our race is already run as no solution is going to conpleteky satisfy us but we'll still be in the epl and potebtial ucl next season but promotion and relegation clubs its big desicions. Then you've got the whole issue of next season and will it spike again etc.
It's right from a sporting perspective that they TRY and also from a sporting perspective if they can get the games plsyed it makes it easier to sort out but I can't see it working....like a million to one shot of nothing going wrong. Other alternatives are a mess though, one way or another teams are gonna get shafted or benefit wrongly. From LFC's point of view our race is already run as no solution is going to conpleteky satisfy us but we'll still be in the epl and potebtial ucl next season but promotion and relegation clubs its big desicions. Then you've got the whole issue of next season and will it spike again etc.
pretty much the whole scientific world thinks it will spike again, government advice leaked today on the guardian predicts 3 waves. qualifying for the champions league doesnt matter since there's no realistic chance of their being european football next season
I think it'll be called in the end Eddie, the Dutch leagues went to a vote on how to proceed from there on in though so you might get a different result however, who knows. 3 leagues now have cancelled plus non league here
