Coronavirus (Football Thread)

[aberdeen1970]

5 hours ago, sheepcrooky said:

To be fair, that was never going to happen unless you are in tier 1. We just avoided tier 3. 
 

 

Aye but look at England. 

London in Tier 2 but Arsenal had 2000 in tonight.  All spaced out with their face coverings on. Easy peasy.  Probably safer there than if they'd gone out for a pint, a meal or down the shops. 

No reason whatsoever that Level 2 here couldn't have 1000 like Cormack was requesting.  It's only stubbornness on the government's part here that's preventing it. 

[maryhilldon]

1 hour ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Aye but look at England. 

London in Tier 2 but Arsenal had 2000 in tonight.  All spaced out with their face coverings on. Easy peasy.  Probably safer there than if they'd gone out for a pint, a meal or down the shops. 

No reason whatsoever that Level 2 here couldn't have 1000 like Cormack was requesting.  It's only stubbornness on the government's part here that's preventing it. 

Said it at the start of this covid pish,  we'll probably be the last country to come out of these restrictions thanks to uber cautious nanny Nicola.  

[sheepcrooky]

7 hours ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Aye but look at England. 

London in Tier 2 but Arsenal had 2000 in tonight.  All spaced out with their face coverings on. Easy peasy.  Probably safer there than if they'd gone out for a pint, a meal or down the shops. 

No reason whatsoever that Level 2 here couldn't have 1000 like Cormack was requesting.  It's only stubbornness on the government's part here that's preventing it. 

Fully agree. Unfortunately our great leader and the dentist don’t. 

[redstrummer]

9 Utd players out !! becoming a farce this season . When do we play them ? around xmas 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55171011?fbclid=IwAR3zDCoIiUkWTm10CB6MW9KOvXq1G6AFOWMzshvGo3h1zgeYRXdvCJc1T6o

[Ten Caat]

Sevco will benefit from this next week. FFS 9 players out should mean the affected club is allowed a postponement. We hear about "sporting integrity" but how can there be any when a squad is decimated to such an extent.? If there has been any breach of protocols then after an investigation the points could be awarded to the affected opponents but in the interim United should be treated as innocent (see later) . Livi are highly likely to be involved in a relegation dogfight this season. It's unfair to the other candidates for Livi to face such a decimated team.

I'm really not in favour of awarding points to teams on the because another team has broken protocols, as happened earlier this week. It's happened now though, so a precedent has been set. I'd far rather the teams who broke protocols were docked 3 points for each postponement but the games were played at some point eventually during the season.

[NEM]

25 minutes ago, redstrummer said:

9 Utd players out !! becoming a farce this season . When do we play them ? around xmas 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55171011?fbclid=IwAR3zDCoIiUkWTm10CB6MW9KOvXq1G6AFOWMzshvGo3h1zgeYRXdvCJc1T6o

2nd January.  Another good day oot ruined by this Covid farce

[NEM]

Just now, Ten Caat said:

Sevco will benefit from this next week. FFS 9 players out should mean the affected club is allowed a postponement. We hear about "sporting integrity" but how can there be any when a squad is decimated to such an extent.? If there has been any breach of protocols then after an investigation the points could be awarded to the affected opponents but in the interim United should be treated as innocent (see later) . Livi are highly likely to be involved in a relegation dogfight this season. It's unfair to the other candidates for Livi to face such a decimated team.

I'm really not in favour of awarding points to teams on the because another team has broken protocols, as happened earlier this week. It's happened now though, so a precedent has been set. I'd far rather the teams who broke protocols were docked 3 points for each postponement but the games were played at some point eventually during the season.

Huns minus 5 be printing money 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

It’s now a rule that the huns have to play injury & COVID ravaged teams every week apparently. 

[BitWait]

4 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

It’s now a rule that the huns have to play injury & COVID ravaged teams every week apparently. 

I'm pretty sure they are planting asymptomatic hun supporters in the vicinity of opposition teams relatives. Deluded maybe but they have been known to cheat before.

[Yorston Vasey]

Dundee United took a fucking team photograph, and the virus has decimated the squad because they all huddled together on school PE benches to smile at the camera.

Shut those fuckers down.

[Arabian Knight]

ye spik shyte n ye sound like a hun..noo fuck up ya pysh stained slabberin cunt

[Dons79]

16 hours ago, Arabian Knight said:

ye spik shyte n ye sound like a hun..noo fuck up ya pysh stained slabberin cunt

not really spikin shite but is he?

fucking amateur club

[Mr John]

The people of Dumdee clearly do not believe in the power of photoshop. Clustering like that during a pandemic?

Poor third world bastards.

[The Cockney Don]

Silly Jutes.

[Dons79]

to be fair to Arabian knight Celtic done one 10 days prior to the jutes 

not a word about it

fuck all, silence is deafening 

20/21 photo shoot???

[Ernie McCracken]

1 hour ago, Dons79 said:

to be fair to Arabian knight Celtic done one 10 days prior to the jutes 

not a word about it

fuck all, silence is deafening 

20/21 photo shoot???

At least now we know why they're sticking by Lennon. They don't want to have to reprint the 2021 calendars. 

[BitWait]

I went and watched an amateur game in the shire on Saturday , nobody took the knee ? Does anyone know how far down the football pyramid in UK is this shite not a requirement ? Have they to do it in the highland league ? Must be a nightmare going into work and having to kneel once or twice a week to something you don't believe in to keep your job.

[Dons79]

10 minutes ago, BitWait said:

I went and watched an amateur game in the shire on Saturday , nobody took the knee ? Does anyone know how far down the football pyramid in UK is this shite not a requirement ? Have they to do it in the highland league ? Must be a nightmare going into work and having to kneel once or twice a week to something you don't believe in to keep your job.

It’ll be ok for carpet fitters

[muttonhumper]

9 hours ago, BitWait said:

I went and watched an amateur game in the shire on Saturday , nobody took the knee ? Does anyone know how far down the football pyramid in UK is this shite not a requirement ? 

It's not a requirement.

At all.

[For Fecks Sake]

When will it be acceptable for it not to happen or will it become a permanent fixture?

It's has been getting done for months now, time to move on.

[muttonhumper]

 

It's been acceptable* for ages.

Teams stopped doing it in England as long ago as September.

 

*Well, always, in reality.

[maryhilldon]

Big fuss in the news about the Millwall fans booing,  so that'll probably extend the nonsense even longer. 

[muttonhumper]

 

From mid September:

 

Several clubs have decided that it will lose significance if continued indefinitely and on Saturday in 16 out of 37 matches in the top four divisions of guffyland, players did not kneel before kick-off. 

[muttonhumper]

 

The message has now been waaay diluted, and as above, completely lost it's significance and effect.

 

Idiots.

[BitWait]

1 hour ago, muttonhumper said:

It's not a requirement.

At all.

In the televised games that they do take the knee , if one player just stood picking at his shorts , the media backlash would be so great that that player would never play football in UK again. He would be deemed a racist and not worthy of a shirt.

So , not a requirement but expected if you wish to continue playing football for your club.

[Ten Caat]

1 hour ago, BitWait said:

In the televised games that they do take the knee , if one player just stood picking at his shorts , the media backlash would be so great that that player would never play football in UK again. He would be deemed a racist and not worthy of a shirt.

So , not a requirement but expected if you wish to continue playing football for your club.

Hmmm maybe if you are Joe Bloggs playing for Petercaster City in the arse end of the EFL with a right -on chairman

I suspect not ( and the knock on effect by further superstars following suit would bring it to an end completely within 2 or 3 weeks) if a Harry Kane or suchlike chose to stop doing it and publicly stated why in the post-match interviews

[BitWait]

Seems to me they all do it if it is done at all , maybe pre agreed ? Yet to see one player standing alone , "not doing this" stance and interested to see what the manic media " throw him to the wolves " types reaction would be to someone not doing something that is supposedly voluntary.

[Guest]

The knee is a PR gesture, it allows clubs to appear to be doing something whilst probably not doing a whole lot behind the scenes to combat racism. I know Les Ferdinand at QPR stopped them from doing the knee because he felt it wasn't required with all the work they do in West London helping black communities, as well as educating locals on being anti racist. 
 

However, to boo what is a simple gesture of anti racism, is absolutely deplorable. The Millwall fans claiming it's because BLM is a Marxist movement and some of the protests turned into riots, are talking shite. I doubt any of them know a thing about Marxist theory or the things they claim they are booing. They are the same types who say "keep politics out of football" but bring Union Jacks to games and demand every player wears a fucking poppy.  

 

Milwall, a historically scummy, racist and fascist set of fans, suddenly being offended by a bit of rioting? Do me a favour. 
 

 

[Parklife]

28 minutes ago, ConsiCanBoogie1903 said:

The knee is a PR gesture, it allows clubs to appear to be doing something whilst probably not doing a whole lot behind the scenes to combat racism. I know Les Ferdinand at QPR stopped them from doing the knee because he felt it wasn't required with all the work they do in West London helping black communities, as well as educating locals on being anti racist. 
 

However, to boo what is a simple gesture of anti racism, is absolutely deplorable. The Millwall fans claiming it's because BLM is a Marxist movement and some of the protests turned into riots, are talking shite. I doubt any of them know a thing about Marxist theory or the things they claim they are booing. They are the same types who say "keep politics out of football" but bring Union Jacks to games and demand every player wears a fucking poppy.  

I think that mostly sums up my views on it all too. 

 

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, Parklife said:

I think that mostly sums up my views on it all too. 

 

These bitches don't know shit about my man Karl Marx!