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Erm, I dont see how we as a club and fanbase, can go on about completeing the season then when we get the 2 necessary wins, say we forfeit games or just go fuck it, we've got what we want. That, to me, would just make us look real twats.

Well players have been given training regimes although by the time games re start they wont be match fit. But that will apply across the board of all clubs. Effectively it will be like pre season. I dont think there will be a great variance in fitness across clubs when the games start.

I think everything is on hold at the moment. There's been no news about seassie ticket renewals which they were expecting to issue in April.

This is still a tragic event \ story whatever you describe it as.

Im pretty certain the start date of the new Nike deal is 1 june not 1 July.

Premier League hoping to re start 1 June, play games behind closed doors and complete the season within 6 weeks. Then start the 2020 / 21 season on 8 August. Story behind telegraph paywall. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/03/21/exclusive-premier-league-considers-plan-resume-games-june-1/ The Premier League is tentatively scheduling a plan which involves games starting from June 1, which would allow them to finish the season within the space of six weeks and begin the 2020-2021 campaign on August 8, heading off a financial catastrophe for clubs carrying huge wage bills. The June 1 start date, in ten weeks’ time, remains a target rather than anything approaching a certainty but with the postponement of the European championships by Uefa this week this is one of the best-case scenarios being considered by the Premier League and the Football League. The games would be behind closed doors, which is by now a universally accepted proviso, and would need the government to sanction the presence of emergency crews within the ground....

I must be getting paranoid. Just seen this advert with sterling shaving his face fuzz. Shows him during an animated game wearing a city strip less all the badges. He's playing a team wearing an all dark red kit. Surely not meant to be us?

I finally managed to 'pause' my Sky Sports payments yesterday. Tried through the website and just got a 'page unavailable' message. Logged into my account and was suddenly presented with a screen that said Im in a queue to pause payments and would be sorted in 60 seconds. Nope! Then I saw someone said using the My Sky app did it in seconds. Nope! Took an absolute age to find the relevant page to pause and even then, that was by accident. Once Id got that,'pausing' was quick but the only confirmation I got was a screen saying my 'new channels' would be added soon. The only way I got confirmation was a couple of hours later finding my next bill due in April had reduced by about 30 quid. The bad news is for May's bill, Sky's across the board increase adds another 12 quid to my bill. Twats. Ive had enough of them and wont be renewing my Sky Sports package when it's due. BT on the other hand arent budging, last I heard it's 1 free month or cancel and then they hit you with cancelation charges. Cunts, I'll be dropping BT Sport when that's up for renewal as well. Be interesting to see what the club does with seasie ticket renewals. They were going to invite these in April but whether they postpone or not given the circumstances I guess we'll have to wait.

His everton side is strong, isnt it?

Bill Gates warned 4 years ago in a Ted talk that the world wasnt prepared for a new pandemic. Turns out he was right. You hope lessons will be learnt once this blows over as it will. Stay safe.

But what makes you fashion police and deciding what fans should not want to wear? No one is forced to buy any piece of kit, not even a parent with kids and yes, Ive had 2. You just learn to say no, same as you say dont put your hand in the fire. The fact the design is fucking awful means any right thinking person wont buy it anyway.

The players supposed to warm up pre match naked then? They've been wearing pre match tops, shirts or whatever you want to call them since they stopped the routine of running out and having a 5 minute run around before kick off. I make that since about 1976 if not a season or two earlier as the first time I saw a team do a warm up 30 minutes before kick off was Monchengladbach in the UEFA Cup Final 1st leg in 73.

Yes, I agree. Im sure some of theirs infiltrate this forum and its 1800+ pages is just grist to their mill. Lock the thread, Dave!

Yeah I sometimes get something in my eye watching the owner's reaction to the reveal and the craftsmanship just blows meaway. Wish they'd do a proper new series though as these are all repeats. Still watching this Canal+ War of the Worlds, I cannot believe how shit it really is. H.G. Wells must be spinning like a top over its shitness. Despite seeing some of his platoon shot in the head by the alien 'machines,' the French Colonel still sends his troops out on reccie without wearing helmets! WTF?

Simon Templar, The Saint and Roger Moore John Drake as Dangerman and Patrick Mcgoohan Thomas Magnum Dixon of Dock Green, alright he wasnt a detective as such. Inspector Lockhart of No Hiding Place

That's great news on both sides. Sadly, I think the tribal elements in football will see that hope dashed.

Well they've all signed up to this completing the season statement put out by the PL. If there were any dissenting clubs, they havent put their head above the parapit. Neither do I think the other PL clubs would look kindly on any clubs who, having agreed that, then use the virus to pull their squad if and when it looks like they are going to go down. There are current measures and sanctions to prevent clubs doing this, that why Middlesbrough got sanctioned and hit with a 6 point deduction when they said their squad had flue a number of years back.

You make some valid points and I agree. I think there will be a degreee of realism, practicality, call it what people want. If players are asked to play a number of games in quick succession, they'll do what they do now. And that's pace themselves through games. We 'only' need 2 wins and it depends who'll we'll play first when the season resumes. They may just pick up where they left off which for us would be the shite and Palace. If so, the derby would be a blood and thunder affair anyway. We should beat Palace so even if we didnt beat the shite, that leaves 1 win needed. Once we'd got that, I suspect the players would ease off a little or Jurgen would swap the team about to try and negate muscle injuries rather than pure 'rest.' Im a little worried other clubs are returning to training but we still seem content to carry on as we are. I can understand it to a degree but think we have to be careful we dont get into an almost pre season type of fitness where other teams are a couple of weeks fitter than us.

Presumably this cunt complained when we had to play more games in a short period of time in 1989? Oh, that's right, we were the fucking cause of that as well according to these cunts.

It's the old adage, isnt it? the old if you're winning, no one bitches. If you're not winning, everyone bitches. They have a lot of practice bitching these last 25 years. There's a whole generation of blues brought up to not just dislike Liverpool but to blame Liverpool for every little thing that goes wrong in their miserable little lives. Im half expecting them to blame us when Bramley Moore Dock collapses. Fuck 'em. Let them fume and drone on about tainted titles or titles with an asterisk against it. I dont care how the boys play when football re starts so long as we give these cunts an absolute beating at their pit in front of their own fans.

I mean when you look at the shit thrown at the club by fans of city, united AND everton, maybe 1 or 2 others as well, they'll all say it's a tainted title however this pans out. In some respects that will grip my shits but there's no way you get away from it so you just have to ignore it and crack on. I just hope we get in the stadium to see the manager and players lift the trophy and to the rest of them, fuck off, 19 times!

They're crackpots, arent they? "Only Liverpool" would get that decision? The whole fucking Premier League including their own fucking club agreed to it.

All the mancs and everton fans bombarding the sports pages comments section saying how disgraceful a decision this is.

Thanks for that update.

Hopefully them lot at BT Sport will pull their finger out as well.