[Albion] Likely to be another year before (normal) football returns...

[Swansman]

Nobody knows. Plenty of 'experts' around at the time of the 2008 global financial crash also. None of them knew jackshit.

Tad bit different though. Virologists and epidemiologist are not, unlike people who study economics, known to be chronically wrong all the time.

I agree no one really knows though.

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

That's the expert feeling before any large gatherings so amex may not see a full house for a long time yet!!

We won't be going back to normal until a vaccine is found. Possibly 18 months and that's if we can invent one.

 

[Acker79]

Y'know, I'd be kinda interested in seeing how a game of football would play out if the government said 'ok, people can return to school and work, but must continue to maintain 2m distance from each other until further notice'. Imagine a game of football where you're not allowing within two metres of another player.

I suppose rules would have to be introduced to stop whoever gets kick off just running straight for goal forcing everyone else to get out of their way.

 

[nickjhs]

I suppose until a vaccine is widely available is proven then that's it.

Maybe not. The UK is an island, if there are zero new cases then after a while a case can be made that the virus has been eradicated. What this of course means is until a vaccine has been developed strict quarantine measures must be in place for anyone arriving. The same is happening in Australia. New arrivals are being quarantined for two weeks. the rate of new cases is dropping so at some point the virus will no longer be active in the country. So provided the borders are secure some sense of normality can resume.

 

[Brok]

Y'know, I'd be kinda interested in seeing how a game of football would play out if the government said 'ok, people can return to school and work, but must continue to maintain 2m distance from each other until further notice'. Imagine a game of football where you're not allowing within two metres of another player.

I suppose rules would have to be introduced to stop whoever gets kick off just running straight for goal forcing everyone else to get out of their way.

Wouldn't stop Seggers from still diving though, would it?

 

[Icy Gull]

We won't be going back to normal until a vaccine is found. Possibly 18 months and that's if we can invent one.

I am with you on this, most will survive many will die but this virus is not going away until it’s infected everybody or we find a vaccine.

Closed door football is the only way it’s coming back sooner

 

[WATFORD zero]

Y'know, I'd be kinda interested in seeing how a game of football would play out if the government said 'ok, people can return to school and work, but must continue to maintain 2m distance from each other until further notice'. Imagine a game of football where you're not allowing within two metres of another player.

I suppose rules would have to be introduced to stop whoever gets kick off just running straight for goal forcing everyone else to get out of their way.

Do you think you may have too much time on your hands

 

[oldboyroy]

And to think just 4 or 5 weeks ago we were just cursing the fact that the arsenal game was off!!

 

[LamieRobertson]

I've (almost) stopped looking at the news. Once a day only, and only 10 minutes or so. Can't think of any paper that has reported events in a calm, balanced way.

Likewise ..it’s almost a positive..not wasting too much time digesting it all

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I've (almost) stopped looking at the news. Once a day only, and only 10 minutes or so. Can't think of any paper that has reported events in a calm, balanced way.

Totally 100% agree and I do exactly the same.
Media is wringing every last drop out of it with some of the most ridiculous reports and then there is the daily specials on every channel.
I would have loved to have seen certain tabloid newspapers to be ordered into total lockdown about a month ago.

 

[beorhthelm]

This is in the Daily Mail, just seen it pop up on my Apple News. The amount of disinformation and scaremongering that paper puts out is immoral. To be honest all the media outlets are getting as bad as each other at the moment, publishing breaking news from ‘experts’ only for it to be contradicted the next day by another ‘expert’! Why they cannot report on fact rather than opinion I do not know.

they and some others are making avery strong argument for control of the press, even in normal circumstances, to control the speculation, hearsay and myths they push out as fact.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The end game is now being discussed over here apparently. An MP was saying last week the thinking is once infection rates, and the associated contact tracing, are within a manageable and a stable rate then restrictions will start to lift. That’s the theory anyway. When this will happen is wide open for debate but when infection rates start a downward trend we might know some more.

I think you’ll see teams in Germany playing games well before a year, even possibly with full crowds.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

We won't be going back to normal until a vaccine is found. Possibly 18 months and that's if we can invent one.

I don’t agree. If infection rates are manageable this should suffice. Remember, vaccines are far from 100% efficacious, and are used to manage infection rates as much as prevent them.

 

[jimhigham]

I saw a piece in The Guardian a couple of days back. Apparently, opinion is still divided about the risk of contagion from such things as smartphones and socially distant proximity in shops. However, the one thing researchers are more or less unanimous about is that the disease is most effectively spread among large crowds. All manner of clusters have been discovered following religious gatherings, gigs, festivals and the like. Social behaviour creates the perfect conditions for the spread of this disease.

I went to the last match at Griffin Park before fixtures ended and I must have been proffered half a dozen handshakes. It's what we collectively do. Sadly, football matches and gigs, my two favourite leisure activities, will probably be the last to return to normality. I'm struggling to see any return to normal fixtures even in August but hey! I know nothing. Just guessing at this point, same as everybody else.

 

[Albion 4ever]

Y'know, I'd be kinda interested in seeing how a game of football would play out if the government said 'ok, people can return to school and work, but must continue to maintain 2m distance from each other until further notice'. Imagine a game of football where you're not allowing within two metres of another player.

I suppose rules would have to be introduced to stop whoever gets kick off just running straight for goal forcing everyone else to get out of their way.

Schools will not be able to enforce the 2m distance with full capacity.


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[Acker79]

Schools will not be able to enforce the 2m distance with full capacity.


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I saw something on twitter where some in the east were sitting exams in field, or perhaps in a sports stadium, allowing them to space the exam tables out far enough.

Look, I'm not saying it's going to be convenient, but it needs to happen for the silly idea of a football game where players have to stay away from each other.

 

[AnotherArch]

Might start back with something like: under-45's only AND a certificate to say that you have had the disease. For fans, players and management. Security now frisk you and take your temperature digitally.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I saw a piece in The Guardian a couple of days back. Apparently, opinion is still divided about the risk of contagion from such things as smartphones and socially distant proximity in shops. However, the one thing researchers are more or less unanimous about is that the disease is most effectively spread among large crowds. All manner of clusters have been discovered following religious gatherings, gigs, festivals and the like. Social behaviour creates the perfect conditions for the spread of this disease.

The Berlin approach is not as strict as the U.K. Here we are allowed out in pairs and the other person can be from a different household. We can go to parks as long as we observe the 2m rule, or 1.5 as it is here. We can exercise as much as we want; I’m meeting a friend for a run tomorrow. In shops, there is strict 1.5m rules for queuing ie to get in and when paying, but that’s about it. This backs up the theory about the low risk.

 

[SAC]

My view, which is as expert as anyone elses!

This season will finish behind closed doors in July and the new season will start in September with crowds admitted. However with the expected deep recession, crowds will be down at all matches. The transfer window will start after the season finishes and will see player values plumet as clubs stop spending.

 

[A1X]

Y'know, I'd be kinda interested in seeing how a game of football would play out if the government said 'ok, people can return to school and work, but must continue to maintain 2m distance from each other until further notice'. Imagine a game of football where you're not allowing within two metres of another player.

I suppose rules would have to be introduced to stop whoever gets kick off just running straight for goal forcing everyone else to get out of their way.

This is just an Arsene Wenger wet dream.