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They love a chat at West Ham. If they put as much effort in to improving the team over the years as they do briefing/talking to the media they might not be in a relegation scrap. Apart from Di Canio once scoring a good goal they've brought absolutely **** all to the league in my life time, though apparently they did play "The West Ham way" about 650 years ago.Comment
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Because their home form is so great
And cancelling the season after 29 games would compromise it less?
Having said that, the 10 neutral grounds business is daft. If games are only available to watch at home then the logistical issues make no sense to me.Trey Nyoni: countdown to stardom-2 years1year0.5 yearsComment
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It doesn't make much sense to me either but I presume they are to be in areas fans can be restricted from more easily.
But yeah, from the start of this west ham have acted horribly.Comment
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Brilliant this from the Palace chairman Steve Parish (loads more on the link) :
"Isn’t it all just about the money? Well, not entirely. I want to complete the competition for reasons of sporting integrity. I want to crown Liverpool champions and give every other club a fair crack at the best league position they can achieve. I certainly don’t want to have difficult conversations about curtailing, voiding and points per game. The ramifications of each are complex and could involve legal challenges that run on for months, if not years.
But, yes, it is partly about the money. And we should all care about the money. I’ll tell you why. Nobody wins if the Premier League receives less money. Nobody. We are already facing losses no one can quantify — and if we don’t finish the season we are entering uncharted waters.
Football is one of the most efficient tax-generating industries in Britain: we pay the players a lot but 50 per cent goes straight back into the public purse. Overall we pay about £3.3 billion in tax every year and it is the Premier League that largely funds the whole football pyramid."
"Finally, and this is key, if we cannot play out the end of this season, why can we necessarily start the next one in August or September? Are we convinced things will look so much different from how they do today? Many of the same issues regarding player welfare, venues and closed-doors matches will exist then. The more we can work out now, the better chance we have of coming out of this with the game we all love in position to recover over time.
I think Javier Tebas, the La Liga president, had it right when justifying steps to try to restart in Spain. He said: “I do not understand why there would be more danger in playing football behind closed doors, with all precautionary measures, than working on an assembly line, being on a fishing boat on the high seas.”Comment
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Seems reasonable. Wont it come down to whether the players want to play?In the beginning, Fowler created the Heaven and the Earth.Comment
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Some of the players are bitching about safety. I think it's fair to say when the rest of us go back to work we'll have less access to testing and protocol than a bunch of extremely well paid young men kicking a football around will have. We can't all stay off work until a vaccine comes along.Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar WildeComment
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Bitching about safety
Oh I don't know.Comment
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Yeah. Us normal people will go back to work soon and have to effectively get on with it. The footballers with the testing and medical teams will be much safer than many others will be. If they don't want to work in a few weeks, then when will they? 6 months, a year? Plus football isn't just work to pay the bills, it's fun, so surely they'll want to get involved again. If there's a small minority that don't want to play, then let them stay at home. Can't be fairer than that.Originally posted by dom9 View PostBitching about safety
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar WildeComment
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Coronavirus: The Rooney Response
15th March - Why didn't we stop playing sooner? They've treated us like guinea pigs! I will NEVER forgive them if my family fall ill.
5th April - Football players are easy targets and have been made scapegoats
6th April - Warned by police after being seen out chatting with Kyle Walker, days after Walker invited multiple sex workers into his home
23rd April - Wayne and Colleen clap for "our NHS heroes"Like blood on ironComment
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Sounds fair.Originally posted by BobTheCharmer View PostTrey Nyoni: countdown to stardom-2 years1year0.5 yearsComment
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I know he's not popular but there's few chairman out there that speak with more sincerity and clarity than JordanOriginally posted by Chris View PostBrilliant this from the Palace chairman Steve Parish (loads more on the link) :
"Isn’t it all just about the money? Well, not entirely. I want to complete the competition for reasons of sporting integrity. I want to crown Liverpool champions and give every other club a fair crack at the best league position they can achieve. I certainly don’t want to have difficult conversations about curtailing, voiding and points per game. The ramifications of each are complex and could involve legal challenges that run on for months, if not years.
But, yes, it is partly about the money. And we should all care about the money. I’ll tell you why. Nobody wins if the Premier League receives less money. Nobody. We are already facing losses no one can quantify — and if we don’t finish the season we are entering uncharted waters.
Football is one of the most efficient tax-generating industries in Britain: we pay the players a lot but 50 per cent goes straight back into the public purse. Overall we pay about £3.3 billion in tax every year and it is the Premier League that largely funds the whole football pyramid."
"Finally, and this is key, if we cannot play out the end of this season, why can we necessarily start the next one in August or September? Are we convinced things will look so much different from how they do today? Many of the same issues regarding player welfare, venues and closed-doors matches will exist then. The more we can work out now, the better chance we have of coming out of this with the game we all love in position to recover over time.
I think Javier Tebas, the La Liga president, had it right when justifying steps to try to restart in Spain. He said: “I do not understand why there would be more danger in playing football behind closed doors, with all precautionary measures, than working on an assembly line, being on a fishing boat on the high seas.”
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