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From a sporting integrity perspective, the way the season is being finished now is a farce in my opinion. After such a long break and with the 5 subs rule, it's like it's a new league … or even a new mini season. The only reason it's being played is money.
If money wasn't a key driver and only sporting factors affected decision making, then the rest of the season should have been abandoned. Football clubs and players could then have fully devoted themselves to joining in the national fight/defence against the spread of the virus. Instead they wasted months of energy focussing on themselves and now we have this phase of the season and games don't feel anything like a continuation of the same season. And we have to drag out at least a week, maybe more, before we get a chance to claim the title.
I was surprised that the relegation zone teams allowed the 5 sub rule. it was obvious to me then that it favours the clubs with strength in depth. A team can now change almost half the side on the pitch. Imagine one of the bottom teams being 1-0 with 20 mins to go against say City.... and suddenly City bring 5 fresh international players on.
It's just a farce. No?
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From a sporting integrity perspective, the way the season is being finished now is a farce in my opinion. After such a long break and with the 5 subs rule, it's like it's a new league … or even a new mini season. The only reason it's being played is money.
If money wasn't a key driver and only sporting factors affected decision making, then the rest of the season should have been abandoned. Football clubs and players could then have fully devoted themselves to joining in the national fight/defence against the spread of the virus. Instead they wasted months of energy focussing on themselves and now we have this phase of the season and games don't feel anything like a continuation of the same season. And we have to drag out at least a week, maybe more, before we get a chance to claim the title.
I was surprised that the relegation zone teams allowed the 5 sub rule. it was obvious to me then that it favours the clubs with strength in depth. A team can now change almost half the side on the pitch. Imagine one of the bottom teams being 1-0 with 20 mins to go against say City.... and suddenly City bring 5 fresh international players on.
It's just a farce. No? No it's not, the 5 subs is because of the number of games to be played in a short period, City would have rotated every game if there were only 3 subs allowed, so it comes to more or less the same. Every team starts with the same number of players
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I could care less and less about any of that stuff Mighty, for me the important thing is to get our title over the line, while playing the best football possible. There'll be plenty of other detractors of our winning season (assuming that's what will transpire) without we ourselves running it down. Just get it done, and then uget geared up for another title bash in the coming season.
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I agree it's a joke as is the political silliness football as allowed itself to be caught up in.
We will win the title but this season is tainted by things that are not Liverpool FC,s fault I agree
If the virus continues and football is without crowds and players continue with various woke political messages on shirts my interest is going to be very low indeed and I suspect I won't be alone in that
In real life almost none of my friends are talking about the games it's going through the motions to get this season over with its next season I fear for. One think is very clear football without the crowd is nothing but watching the players train in effect
Last edited by Stanley Park; 20/06/20 01:37 PM.
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Only a stupid manager would make 5 subs at the same time with the amount of muscle injuries happening. It doesnt change anything, every club was allowed 3 subs, now its 5. It's an even playing field.
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The current setup is to get the 2019/20 season done, as it was three quarters through and allot of money had already been paid to PL clubs from TV companies, so they had to get it finished or would have been liable to pay back huge money, which would have sent allot of clubs under.
Will be interesting to see how they deal with the next season.
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I agree it's a joke as is the political silliness football as allowed itself to be caught up in.
We will win the title but this season is tainted by things that are not Liverpool FC,s fault I agree
If the virus continues and football is without crowds and players continue with various woke political messages on shirts my interest is going to be very low indeed and I suspect I won't be alone in that
In real life almost none of my friends are talking about the games it's going through the motions to get this season over with its next season I fear for. One think is very clear football without the crowd is nothing but watching the players train in effect Completely disagree, yes it's much better with the crowd but not having football at all is the worst. I am sure if the message was, British lives matter, you wouldn't see anything bad about it. My friends are happy to watch footy at last
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The current setup is to get the 2019/20 season done, as it was three quarters through and allot of money had already been paid to PL clubs from TV companies, so they had to get it finished or would have been liable to pay back huge money, which would have sent allot of clubs under.
Will be interesting to see how they deal with the next season.
I bet it will be the same until crowds are back.
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The nations favourite sport needed to come back for something to look forward to. Whatever your thoughts on the ChiComm virus, having football back gives confidence to the nation.
All nations should open back up now as the mortality rates have proven less worse than the flu. Asymptomatics (which is a huge percentage diagnosed with the virus) has been proven to be virtually impossible for them to spread the virus. The old and those with conditions that can be made worse by the virus should quarantine but the rest of society needs to get back to normality.
When this is all done, The World needs to hold China accountable and the likes of WHO, CDC and Bill Gates need to be grilled about all their missinformation / lies they spread.
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I think British lives do matter yes but I would oppose that on the back of football shirts or any political slogan football should stay out of politics we have enough politics as it is football is supposed to be a break from the pressures of life not add to them
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