Coronavirus and Football (Plus all Sport in General)

[Norbs]

[Kenneth]

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1247168815814848517
Pep Guardiola's mother dies aged 82 after contracting coronavirus

****ing hell Norbs, not again.

[spud_gun]

Owners have seen sense.

Shame on those on here who performed some extraordinary mental gymnastics in order to try and justify the original decision.

[Kenneth]

Owners have seen sense.

Shame on those on here who performed some extraordinary mental gymnastics in order to try and justify the original decision.

Still have no issue with it, other than the PR implications from people who do. I don't agree with the scheme, but that's a different matter.

[spud_gun]

Still have no issue with it, other than the PR implications from people who do.

Bully for you.

[Red_Polo]

Still have no issue with it, other than the PR implications from people who do.

Same.

People will now of course claim their grand moral victory, whilst other companies in an even better position to cover salaries will get away with using the scheme and a much smaller number of those of rigid principle will unnecessarily expose their business to risk because they think 'should just about be ok'.

Moral means testing like this is absolute rubbish. Get the tax right, get the relief right, simple as that.

[Chris]

Owners have seen sense.

Shame on those on here who performed some extraordinary mental gymnastics in order to try and justify the original decision.

[Liverpool]

I dont get why they rushed to announce it, not like they are going to run out of cash this month. It could come a time down the line where every club is doing it and there is a genuine need. Putting a statement out when football is already in the headlines and under pressure was daft as ****.

[Kenneth]

Same.

People will now of course claim their grand moral victory, whilst other companies in an even better position to cover salaries will get away with using the scheme and a much smaller number of those of rigid principle will unnecessarily expose their business to risk because they think 'should just about be ok'.

Moral means testing like this is absolute rubbish. Get the tax right, get the relief right, simple as that.

I get it, rally against it because it doesn't feel right etc. The amounts we were talking about were miniscule compared to cost to the Exchequer of the accounting gymnastics going on now at the end of the tax year. I bet some our deductable items would make interesting reading, but they're ok because they only bend the rules rather than break them. This scheme was open, simple and universal by design, the idea being companies could still plan and invest as normal to limit the impact on economic growth etc. I wonder what the next issue will be, maybe rich people castigated for dying on NHS ventilators when they could have gone private.

[dom9]

Same.



People will now of course claim their grand moral victory, whilst other companies in an even better position to cover salaries will get away with using the scheme and a much smaller number of those of rigid principle will unnecessarily expose their business to risk because they think 'should just about be ok'.



Moral means testing like this is absolute rubbish. Get the tax right, get the relief right, simple as that.

Yep. Agreed. As I said before, I don't know how any one of us has enough information to make a judgement either way.

People just love to oversimplify things and turn everyone into heroes or villains.

There were some telling parts of the letter I'll highlight later when I get more time.

[dom9]

I dont get why they rushed to announce it, not like they are going to run out of cash this month. It could come a time down the line where every club is doing it and there is a genuine need. Putting a statement out when football is already in the headlines and under pressure was daft as ****.

Yeah, that I definitely agree with too.

[RichC]

Still have no issue with it, other than the PR implications from people who do. I don't agree with the scheme, but that's a different matter.

[Norbs]

****ing hell Norbs, not again.

[brightred]

I'm off to listen to Crouchie....love his podcasts

[dom9]

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