Where will it end... 12th September as it happens

As long as the league have followed the rules I‘m not sure what the litigation would be based on

 

Well it did. I am sure McCall would believe that we would have got into the play offs.

Doubt Peterborough or Tranmere can do anything now.

 

I hope your correct @StaffordBantam but some how the words Football & Common Sense don't go together.

 

True enough, and now as then, it is an external factor which has affected all clubs. But I would nonetheless argue against expunging the records and voiding the season. At first glance the cases are identical, but I'd suggest that the stage of the season at which the external factor comes into play has to be considered. Only 1/10 of the season had been completed then, whereas now it is 3/4. By this stage trends are apparent, and it is unlikely that a promotion contender now will plummet into relegation trouble, or vice versa. I'd argue that voiding and expunging should not be considered after a season reaches its halfway point. The only somewhat relevant precedent I could point to would be at match level, and that is of course City v. Lincoln.

And if I may speak selfishly, as one of the many keepers of City stats and records, voiding the season and expunging all records would play merry hell with said stats and records! (Not to mention the heritage numbers.)

I also think that whilst the current solution might be, or seem to be, unfair to some clubs and supporters, it is the least unfair to clubs and supporters as a whole.

RCB

 

Don't think too many would have agreed with him
We were an appalling side that deserved nothing so fair dos we got nothing

 

Thank god its all done with.

Hopefully we can put the utter omnishambles of the last couple of years behind us now and have a brighter season whenever it starts!

 

I’m not sure PPG would have made much sense in 1939 we’d still have been struggling though

 

View attachment 7079 I’m not sure PPG would have made much sense in 1939. we’d still have been struggling though (League tables attached)

 

I'm just so glad that all the rubbish we've released were not able to even try to come into contention for new contracts, with false end of season performances, so so glad Akpan has gone especially.

 

Yes -- not a good start, after a promising previous season. We did better in those three matches when normality returned in 46/7 -- though still fell short on the season.

RCB

 

Start the season as late as necessary with the aim of starting with full crowds as early as possible.

The government just caved in to pressure from zoos to open, thankfully saving a vital consumer-based industry, if football clubs, players and fans apply similar pressure come August, it might happen sooner than October.

If the UK follows suit from Spain, we're a month away from announcing single or double digit daily deaths. At that point, we really must be fully out of lock down excluding any sensible measures that do not affect businesses.

 

I'm just so glad that all the rubbish we've released were not able to even try to come into contention for new contracts, with false end of season performances, so so glad Akpan has gone especially.

 

You've to remember our lockdown was nowhere near like Spain's. Our lockdown was weak like the government. I am not concerned we will be down to single daily digits soon at all.

As for the Zoo's. The Zoo's were calling for a massive bailout hence and thats why they now can open but with 2m social distancing whats the point. This government is extremely weak and if the PL/EFL/PFA etc join forces to send the message that fans need to come back or clubs will go bust then I believe this government will allow fans in as they wont want to bail clubs out.

The 2m ruling is coming under pressure already. I said scientists can't run a country and with schools, businesses complaining about the 2m rule I think it will be reduced by September or schools won't be able to reopen in England.

Put pressure on then September could see fans in.

 

I think without a majority vote as they had in both league one and two they would have been in trouble. Much like in France where they announced it was done and now the french court have overruled the decision and stopped relegation.

By having a vote of all members not sure what leg anyone has to stand on who wants to sue?

 

How the government has handled the Covid 19 has been a joke front he start and it's continuing.

We knew about Covid in Jan, didn't do anything until March. We even let Spanish people come over in the thousands to watch Liverpool when Spain was in a state of emergency.

Not using all the labs in the country, lack of testing and PPE.

Even now talking about the 2m rule and not understanding how it effects businesses. The government got asked yesterday about the 2m for restaurants and pubs & how they expect them to survive as it was promised they would look into reducing it to 1m. Government haven't looked into it and suggested people sit side by side ha ha the bloke then said really, so you expect a pub or restaurant to open with 2m social distance and people not looking at each other when they talk? Ha Don't see that happening in Parliament.

Then you have the school situation with schools saying nothing will change in September if you want 2m and 15 in a class.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8406009/Tory-fury-Boris-Johnson-pitiful-failure-downgrade-two-metre-rule.html

This government has let the country down, rich or poor it doesn't matter as they have failed and we can't compare ourselves to where Spain is at because of government is clueless.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8405873/UK-faces-biggest-hit-coronavirus-major-economy-WORLD.html

 

As I posted previously, lockdown might kill more than the virus. And fewer of these will be very old and very compromised.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52984742

Meanwhile, Sweden had only social spacing - and even that's often now ignored there- and the US lockdown was only about half ours yet both have lower death figures per capita than the UK. It makes it look like the UK was in the process of topping out whether we locked down or not.

UK mobility has yet to reach the level that the US dropped to at its lows. Our lockdown was far too severe.

https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-06-05_GB_Mobility_Report_en-GB.pdf

htts://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-06-05_US_Mobility_Report_en.pdf

Even amusement parks and carnivals have reopened in Texas, as restaurants and bars lift to 50% capacity, yet lockdown there was later than ours and their death rates are lower and falling. Current cumulative deaths per capita only 1/9th of ours. (This adds to possible evidence that supports some doctors' claims that the virus is weakening.)

https://www.ccbiznews.com/news/phase-III-reopens-restaurants-at-75-percent-businesses-50-percent

 

A good article on finance here

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/tighter-spending-controls-essential-clubs-survive-championship-and-below-2881288