No, but anyone coming into direct contact with someone infected will (that's precisely how track and trace is expected to work)
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[Football] Premier League / Football League attempts to finish the season
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No, but anyone coming into direct contact with someone infected will (that's precisely how track and trace is expected to work)
warmleyseagull
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I agree with the sentiment but for the last five words. It is interesting how folk focus on CV as a standalone issue in these circumstances. Manager of Wycombe and Nigel Pearson have made similar comments about football seeming unimportant in this crisis.
Yes, people are dying but that is being human: several hundred people die every day. The average daily death toll from cancer alone is 450, probably higher now because of attention elsewhere. We live with that and enjoy our football; CV isn't going away any time soon - we just have to live with it and resume normality asap.
Neville's Breakfast
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But the office is required to put in place a Covid safe environment, including social distancing. Not so with football.
Neville's Breakfast
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You are being a little pedantic. Clearly he means in the context of a radically increased death rate from a global pandemic. It is a little difficult to write it off as business as usual unless (like some posters on here) one is particularly desperate to watch football at all costs.
crodonilson
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We can never eliminate that risk until when/if a vaccine is found but just to put into perspective roughly one in 450 up to 2 weeks ago were thought to have had it, the deputy chief medical officer answering a question about schools said she expects this to halve by the end of the month so roughly one in 900. The restarting of the PL will require approximately that many people to be in relatively close contact where it may not be possible to socalially distance (20*23 man squads plus backroom staff plus matchday officials) so you would expect at any one time there may be one person, certainly no more than a handful, and.pissible none given the rate of transmission is less in more affluent areas,with the disease. Of these how many would be living with parents/grand parents/pregnant partners?? Very few and it's already been said that any player with these circumstances is not obliged to come back. Allied to the fact that all players/staff will be tested twice weekly and all of the other protocols in place the chance of players infecting each other is probably less than at the supermarket or filling up their car. Then the death rate is probably around 0.1/0.3% given the number of cases and it is exponentially higher in over 70s and over 80s, so long as they avoid conract with these as they should be the risk of someone dying directly from a footballer is incredibly low.
I appreciate that this is more contageous/deadly than influenza but something in the region of 10-30,000 people die annually from flu and how.many people play and attend football games through a typical winter all those people directly/indirectly mist be responsible for the transmission of it but we still play football and we still play in front of crowds.
m20gull
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The flu deaths won't be evenly spread over the year and that number is WITH a vaccine.
Neville's Breakfast
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Not quite. A decision has to be taken on the expected flu strain and timing. It is difficult to get it right.
With no vaccine, when do you think behind closed doors football should resume?
(Whatever the name of the season).
swindonseagull
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Reports suggesting that any player who tests positive will isolate for 7 days, so the 'whole squad having to isolate' thing has been ditched.
Just need to ditch the neutral grounds idea and agree a start date now -12th or 19th June
Why are you so keen to watch football in an empty stadium while people are still dying in their hundreds?
cloud
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Now that Covid tests have been made available for everyone, surely a club could insist that the opposing team all took a test before kick-off. If anyone is positive, they can't play and their reserve plays instead.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
If the Premier League behind closed doors is anything like the Bundesliga it will be moribund
Barham's tash
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100% this.
Frankly I won’t watch any matches or highlights because this freak show doesn’t interest me.
It’s self serving BS of the highest order with less integrity than a Ugandan election.
Listening to journalist Neil Custis this evening, he clarified the financial implications to the PL from their ongoing negotiations with the collective of all broadcasters:
a) If no further 2019/20 PL football is played, £740m is repayable and the broadcasters will seek that.
b) With a completed 2019/20 season £330m is being sought as repayable, because the remaining games condensed into a few weeks, will not give them the schedule promised and ad revenues that would’ve flowed from that.
This explains all 20 owners wanting the season to be completed.
a) If no further 2019/20 PL football is played, £740m is repayable and the broadcasters will seek that.
b) With a completed 2019/20 season £330m is being sought as repayable, because the remaining games condensed into a few weeks, will not give them the schedule promised and ad revenues that would’ve flowed from that.
This explains all 20 owners wanting the season to be completed.
crodonilson
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Fair enough, you are entitled to your opinion and you won't be the only one but if the Bundesliga is anything to go by with record viewing figures this weekend there are plenty more who will find a return to competitive sport, with horse racing to start even earlier too and cricket to follow, a welcome distraction. Football behind closed doors is a pretty soul destroying soulless experience in normal times, and whilst it won't be a patch on the game we usually love it will be better than nothing and something we will have to get used to unless we are advocating football not returning for potentially several years.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Disastrous figures. But if the season doesn't finish, the TV companies will accommodate the PL as they have now become embroiled in a very unwholesome symbiotic relationship.
Jimmy Grimble
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[MENTION=3385]crodonilson[/MENTION]
Thoughts on the question I asked you earlier on? Genuinely interested, not sniping.