Coronavirus could prevent Liverpool from winning the Premier League title

[Davelfc]

Once it hits players then they'll suspend football or at least postpone those games. Until then they will want to sell their product to the millions around the world, we know they care little for the people that actually attend.

 

Once they have taken the software from console games that allows them to replicate crowd sounds and play that on the televised games and they paint the seats greens so they can add a crowd digitally, they could do without us. 

 

 

[M_B]

 

11 minutes ago, rubble-rouser said:

What will be will be.

Exactly. Nobody knows what will happen and it's all beyond our control. If the season is cancelled, it'll be because the country is fucked and we'll have greater things to worry about.

[Ne Moe Imya]

It's certainly looking like the match at Goodison will be the last one with fans in the stadium.

 

I reckon we probably win the league against Palace behind closed doors. It will probably feel a bit strange for the players but to be honest it won't make much of a difference to me. The main disappointment will be if the league is cancelled before we get to beat City's points record which I reckon would definitely have fallen.

 

As for what the FA/UEFA will do, here's my guess: the league table when it's cancelled will be the final league table. They'll figure out a way to end it with all the teams on the same amount of games and then just call it there, maybe 31 or 32 games, whatever we get to. UEFA will have to just cancel the Euros, surely.

[Red_or_Dead]

I can't see the PL being cancelled - there is just too much riding on it cash wise for the teams involved.  It'll be behind closed doors as the TV companies will demand it.  Have to side with the Bald Fraud and say that suspension would be the best outcome (that said, given how we play after enforced breaks it could be detrimental to us!

 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

28 minutes ago, Philtrum said:

Once it hits players then they'll suspend football or at least postpone those games. Until then they will want to sell their product to the millions around the world, we know they care little for the people that actually attend.

 

Once they have taken the software from console games that allows them to replicate crowd sounds and play that on the televised games and they paint the seats greens so they can add a crowd digitally, they could do without us. 

 

 

Speak for yourself, I'm irreplaceable. No amount of tech wizardry can replicate the atmosphere and passion of me watching a dodgy stream, sat in my underpants, eating Wotsits.

 

Football without real fans (like me) is nothing.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Aren't Italy talking about completely writing this season off.

[Davelfc]

Just now, Bobby Hundreds said:

Aren't Italy talking about completely writing this season off.

Yeah but who watches that shite?

[Harry Squatter]

[Oh Buoy]

COVID19. 

19DIVOC. 

 

[Aventus]

3 minutes ago, Doctor Troy said:

Hmm, still implies COVID wins. 

 

I'd prefer Scousers '20

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

They should settle the remaining fixtures by letting each teams respective eSports teams play each other. 

 

But, not on FIFA. On Sensible Soccer. 

[El Rojo]

Only banter can save us now.

[Bobby Hundreds]

They should put the amount of people that have died on there too. You know to be respectful.

[Davelfc]

37 minutes ago, Doctor Troy said:

Political and comms consultant and Manchester United season ticket holder, home and away. 

 

Says it all really. 

[M_B]

48 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Aren't Italy talking about completely writing this season off.

They are looking at ways to end the season early with playoffs behind closed doors.

 

We could do the same if we seriously wanted to end the season early; award us the title and have playoffs for contested places.

[deiseach]

In fairness, I laughed as well. The idea that their fans would make their own banners!

 

[Johnlj]

It's a fucking mutated cold. People in thousands die of regular influenza each year. People being killed by busses each years are beating this thing by miles. 

 

Sweet jesus. The media frenzy over this thing is ridiculous. It is also to late to do anything by it. The Danish serum institute tracked a string of the virus and the incubation time shows that it started way before Wuhan fish market gate. Actually close to a month before. It's spread all over the world and no matter what you do it can't be isolated. You either get it or you don't and the mortality rate is quite small compared to other vira. 

 

But the big hedgefunds are laughing all the way to the bank ruining people as we speak. That should actually be bigger news than a glorified cold.

[Davelfc]

4 minutes ago, Johnlj said:

It's a fucking mutated cold. People in thousands die of regular influenza each year. People being killed by busses each years are beating this thing by miles. 

 

Sweet jesus. The media frenzy over this thing is ridiculous. It is also to late to do anything by it. The Danish serum institute tracked a string of the virus and the incubation time shows that it started way before Wuhan fish market gate. Actually close to a month before. It's spread all over the world and no matter what you do it can't be isolated. You either get it or you don't and the mortality rate is quite small compared to other vira. 

 

But the big hedgefunds are laughing all the way to the bank ruining people as we speak. That should actually be bigger news than a glorified cold.

The way things are right now, influenza is worse than the coronavirus. It infects more people, and it kills more people overall despite having a lower fatality rate.

But Covid-19 is more contagious, more insidious, and has a higher fatality rate — so if the outbreak reaches influenza levels, it will almost certainly do much more damage. We don’t know if it can become seasonal like the flu — but if it does, it will be devastating.

 

Covid-10 has pandemic potential, and the window of containment is closing down very quickly. Already, several disease clusters have emerged outside of China. We see them in Italy, Japan, Iran, and South Korea, to name just a few. This is why authorities are so concerned about this.

Although it should be said that the flu is an extremely underrated problem and its dangers should not be overlooked or minimized, derisory comparisons with Covid-19 are unwarranted.

 

Downplaying it through direct comparisons doesn’t really make sense because we’re comparing a known evil (the flu) to an unknown evil’s potential (Covid-19). 

 

There are still many unknowns about the disease, and while there is no reason to panic, this is a dangerous ongoing situation that should be treated with the utmost attention.

 

https://www.zmescience.com/other/pieces/is-covid-19-worse-than-the-flu/

 

 

 

 

[Red House]

If the league can't go on, I would be okay with a straight face-off against City for the title.

 

As long as we get a 25-goal starting lead.

[kemskem]

It looks like the government doesn't believe in playing games behind closed doors. Deputy chief medical officer: "Cancelling big outdoor events like football matches would not necessarily be a decision supported by science"

 

"In general those sort of events and big gatherings are not seen to be something which is going to have a big effect. So we don't want to disrupt people's lives."

[Guest Pistonbroke]

No way will they cancel seasons this far into things. Postponing things until a later date will be the most obvious outcome with seasons being finished after things settle down. It would be next season/major events like Euro 2020 which will be affected in the long run. Finish this season when the situation allows and have a shorter 2020/2021 season if need be, maybe's just play each other once for that season or split it into two groups, top 10/bottom 10 and play each other twice. 

[Davelfc]

5 minutes ago, kemskem said:

It looks like the government doesn't believe in playing games behind closed doors. Deputy chief medical officer: "Cancelling big outdoor events like football matches would not necessarily be a decision supported by science"

 

"In general those sort of events and big gatherings are not seen to be something which is going to have a big effect. So we don't want to disrupt people's lives."

What science did he pay to get that opinion?

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

8 minutes ago, Red House said:

If the league can't go on, I would be okay with a straight face-off against City for the title.

 

As long as we get a 25-goal starting lead.

We're Liverpool it would be 24 nil to city with 5 minutes to go. Easy we don't do and when it's finally looked easy and there's no one to challenge us a global pandemic from the far East like something from science fiction has risen up to give us literally the title race of our lives.

[Johnlj]

Stopping the spreading of the virus is non existant, whether you shut down everything or let things go on as it is. Alot of people is infected, but doesn't show any symptoms of it. Still they can spread the disease. No matter what happens it is out there. three people confirmed so far in my city and counting smaller villages who are within the district code is close to 100000. My guess in two weeks that number will have skyrocketed and nothing can prevent it. 

 

The problem is that the virus wasn't attempted isolated from the beginning. Apparently the Chinese goverment was well aware of it going on way before Wuhan fish market gate. Yesterday a program called Horizon. Call it a research documentary on national Danish TV. Showed clips on Chinese doctors and investigative journalist trying to sound the alarm bells. Magically they have all disappeared and not been heard of again since, but at least they got uploaded a few videos before disappearing. The first doctor who reported it died of the virus incidentially. In the videos you can even see chinese goverment personel welding people inside their houses to die. Disgusting.

 

Shit fest of epic proportions, but running around scared and shutting yourself in won't help. A guy sneazes a few yards from your house, and here we go.

[Davelfc]

2 minutes ago, Johnlj said:

Stopping the spreading of the virus is non existant, whether you shut down everything or let things go on as it is. Alot of people is infected, but doesn't show any symptoms of it. Still they can spread the disease. No matter what happens it is out there. three people confirmed so far in my city and counting smaller villages who are within the district code is close to 100000. My guess in two weeks that number will have skyrocketed and nothing can prevent it. 

 

The problem is that the virus wasn't attempted isolated from the beginning. Apparently the Chinese goverment was well aware of it going on way before Wuhan fish market gate. Yesterday a program called Horizon. Call it a research documentary on national Danish TV. Showed clips on Chinese doctors and investigative journalist trying to sound the alarm bells. Magically they have all disappeared and not been heard of again since, but at least they got uploaded a few videos before disappearing. The first doctor who reported it died of the virus incidentially. In the videos you can even see chinese goverment personel welding people inside their houses to die. Disgusting.

 

Shit fest of epic proportions, but running around scared and shutting yourself in won't help. A guy sneazes a few yards from your house, and here we go.

Thank you Dr, now back to Tom in the studio.