[Albion] When Reality Hits

[Official Old Man]

If we get out of this the other end with a good result there will be c300 fans who won’t be at Albion’s next game who would have been there today.

300 empty seats of fans just like you and me. 300 fans who, a few weeks ago, were just going about their business with their family and friends.

Don’t be a knob.

Bozza sums it up in a way I'd not thought of. 1% of those who catch the virus will die. In fact they are talking about 60% catching it of which 1% will die so in harsh reality 180 people wont be at the next game. Think about that in terms of Shoreham where we lost 11 of our own and the saddness at the time. End of season Abide with Me where pictures of those we've lost this season will have an extra 180 faces. That person you sit next to at the ground who you known only as Mike for seven years, why aren't they there for the rearranged Arsenal match? That old guy you smile to every game in row H, where's he? Add to that the staff, 2000+, so another 12 gone. This stuff is getting serious.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Posters of a certain age will listen to this and start thinking and talking in a Yorkshire accent.
Eee-by- gum, there be wheat germ in that there bread, th’lad.

Or is that just me...

I believe [MENTION=20]Publius Ovidius[/MENTION] also suffers from this

*edit* and having just read the rest of the thread, I really don't understand why people are so quick to insult, so I'll just say

Seriously. Far more important things in life than football.

Says the person on a football fans forum

This

 

[drew]

I may be wrong but I’m not sure Clive Walker was trivialising people dieing from Coronavirus.
More that the tone of the original post when writing about a football game being postponed was perhaps a little over the top.

I think Clive Walker missed the important words in the OP, 'for good reason'. He certainly wasn't putting football before lives but like Klopp alluded to yesterday, fooball isn't one of the most important things in life but of the unimportant things, it's probably the most important. At times like this it takes a backseat.

 

[Clive Walker]

These are extraordinary times, almost unprecedented. Businesses will shut, jobs will be lost, finances will be hit hard, life events will be missed and lives will be lost.

The loss of football for a few months is not a major concern.

 

[fleet]

Seriously. Far more important things in life than football.

But the OP isn’t really taking about football. It is about something out of our control shaking the very essence of normal life. The OP expressed that through football, but the sentiments are clearly about a much wider impact on life in very uncertain times.

I share a certain emptiness about missing football today and the effect that the virus is having on my plans for the next few months. Everyone else is being affected in different ways, but they are all feeling it.

 

[ManOfSussex]

I just read the Saturday sports section of The Times and this has now all hit home. I know people's lives are worth far more, but for the first time since 1939-40, the season wont be completed. The football season will NOT be completed. Clubs, Premier League clubs included as well as down the pyramid, will face ruin as broadcast rights are not paid and gate receipts aren't brought in. Other sports will face a similar fate. I know some things are far more important, but there is nowhere I would rather be this afternoon than necking pints of Harvey's in the West Upper concourse, then chatting to the people around me where my seat is. I don't know when I'll be there again. I don't know who I'll see again when I do because:

How many people will lose their lives because of this?

How many people will lose their lives that I know?

The NHS are preparing for their own to be victims of this. How many?

How many businesses will go under?

How many people will lose their jobs?

How bad will this get?

So much change will happen as a consequence of this. This is terrifying and so,so truly sad.

 

[DJ NOBO]

I just read the Saturday sports section of The Times and this has now all hit home. I know people's lives are worth far more, but for the first time since 1939-40, the season wont be completed. The football season will NOT be completed. Clubs, Premier League clubs included as well as down the pyramid, will face ruin as broadcast rights are not paid and gate receipts aren't brought in. Other sports will face a similar fate. I know some things are far more important, but there is nowhere I would rather be this afternoon than necking pints of Harvey's in the West Upper concourse, then chatting to the people around me where my seat is. I don't know when I'll be there again. I don't know who I'll see again when I do because:

How many people will lose their lives because of this?

How many people will lose their lives that I know?

The NHS are preparing for their own to be victims of this. How many?

How many businesses will go under?

How many people will lose their jobs?

How bad will this get?

So much change will happen as a consequence of this. This is terrifying and so,so truly sad.

On the football front, there’s no need to write the season off yet.
If Euro 2020 is delayed for year, postponed matches could be played into the summer, perhaps with more midweek games.
Then next season could start a bit later maybe with more midweek games. Maybe lose the FA Cup for a year to use those weekends to catch up.
You are right of course right about business going under, but there’s a good chance football will get back on its feet.

 

[ManOfSussex]

On the football front, there’s no need to write the season off yet.
If Euro 2020 is delayed for year, postponed matches could be played into the summer, perhaps with more midweek games.
Then next season could start a bit later maybe with more midweek games. Maybe lose the FA Cup for a year to use those weekends to catch up.
You are right of course right about business going under, but there’s a good chance football will get back on its feet.

If this peaks late May into June with the aftermath and they are hoping to stagger the peak as long as possible too, that just won't be practical due to timing. If games are off now, they will be then.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

These are extraordinary times, almost unprecedented. Businesses will shut, jobs will be lost, finances will be hit hard, life events will be missed and lives will be lost.

The loss of football for a few months is not a major concern.

Still missing the point of the OP I see.

 

[WATFORD zero]

On the football front, there’s no need to write the season off yet.
If Euro 2020 is delayed for year, postponed matches could be played into the summer, perhaps with more midweek games.
Then next season could start a bit later maybe with more midweek games. Maybe lose the FA Cup for a year to use those weekends to catch up.
You are right of course right about business going under, but there’s a good chance football will get back on its feet.

I'm sorry but you really are pissing in the wind. This season is written off. On current predictions, it's not due to peak until June (did I see 14 weeks time?). Four months to build to the peak, another 4 till it clears ?

I think the chances of kicking off next season on time are slim, let alone 'catching up'

 

[Wozza]

On the football front, there’s no need to write the season off yet.
If Euro 2020 is delayed for year, postponed matches could be played into the summer, perhaps with more midweek games.
Then next season could start a bit later maybe with more midweek games. Maybe lose the FA Cup for a year to use those weekends to catch up.
You are right of course right about business going under, but there’s a good chance football will get back on its feet.

This has been covered in numerous other threads.

The virus is expected to peak in the UK in JUNE, so how can there possibly be games in the summer?!

August has to be the target - and that's not exactly guaranteed.

 

[Machiavelli]

Personally I think the OP was transending football itself and more that the lives of many ( who do indeed have a life ) have been affected in a negative way. He / she was just using football as an example of this. Everybody is going to affected by this .... some more than others .... so your response was at best uncaring and and worst prickish. I can only assume you're probably one of those panic buyer w@nkers.

I would have thought that you would be up in arms about transending football, but these are indeed strange times

 

[Machiavelli]

I wake up this morning knowing that our match has been cancelled. Not because of the usual fog, rain or snow. Not because of transport problems or some stomach bug amongst the players. Football is a great constant in our lives, through periods of uncertainty it has always been there. On the evening of 9 /11 we were watching our beloved team at Withdean. Football is a leveller. The show always goes on. Today is different.
At 3 p.m today I will be thinking of every supporter who would have been at Falmer. Those I sit near but never really talk to. Those in the stands opposite. The staff at the ground. Stewards and shop workers. Those that help us get onto the trains. The players and management and I will be wondering what you will be doing and thinking. More than anything I look forward to seeing you soon. I know this is short term and for a good reason. However, in my lifetime we have never lost football before.

As you and others might have some time to fill, I can recommend What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley, which deals with the temporality of football, amongst other things.

 

[DJ NOBO]

This has been covered in numerous other threads.

The virus is expected to peak in the UK in JUNE, so how can there possibly be games in the summer?!

August has to be the target - and that's not exactly guaranteed.

Do you think the key players in deciding the fate of the season have written the season off already? With so much at stake, I doubt they have, even privately. They may end up not having a choice, but we are not there yet.
And yes, I’m sure this strays into already-covered territory on NSC.

 

[RossyG]

I think a lot of people are still unaware of how serious this pandemic could be. This is worth fifteen minutes of your time.

 

[jonnyrovers]

Posters of a certain age will listen to this and start thinking and talking in a Yorkshire accent.
Eee-by- gum, there be wheat germ in that there bread, th’lad.

Or is that just me...

That's incredible, I've been talking with a Yorkshire accent since listening to it! Amazing!!!

Oh hang on, I always talk with a Yorkshire accent, being from Yorkshire and that.....

 

[jonnyrovers]

These are extraordinary times, almost unprecedented. Businesses will shut, jobs will be lost, finances will be hit hard, life events will be missed and lives will be lost.

The loss of football for a few months is not a major concern.

Seriously [MENTION=20155]Clive Walker[/MENTION], is it lost on you that the OP was using football as a device to recognise the greater loss we're all gonna experience in the coming months? Have you never read between the lines??

 

[drew]

Do you think the key players in deciding the fate of the season have written the season off already? With so much at stake, I doubt they have, even privately. They may end up not having a choice, but we are not there yet.
And yes, I’m sure this strays into already-covered territory on NSC.

I think that the key players know that the season won't finish but they need to manage expectations. I suspect they are planning and discussing how to determine which clubs play in which league and european competition when the next season starts. They need to manage expectations. To cancel the league now would be unpalatable to most but come 4th April, the delay will be extended and most will see the reality of cancelling the season inevitable.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

That's incredible, I've been talking with a Yorkshire accent since listening to it! Amazing!!!

Oh hang on, I always talk with a Yorkshire accent, being from Yorkshire and that.....

If you were not around in the early 70s you won’t have a clue what I’m on about.
Congrats on being from Yorkshire though.

 

[jonnyrovers]

If you were not around in the early 70s you won’t have a clue what I’m on about.
Congrats on being from Yorkshire though.

Thanks

I was born in 1973. Is it the Hovis advert?