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There are huge contractual issues with extending the season beyond 30 June. You can't just say to a player whose contract ends then that it is extended unilaterally. UEFA and leagues can extend squad sizes, transfer windows and FFP periods themselves, but not player contracts without each player's agreement.
I've been saying this for the 5 weeks already. You don't have to cancel seasons either. You can award prizes and positions with no further games as some leagues have already done. I don't think they will relegate anyone from the PL without the games being played - it is a no brainer for those clubs to sue given the amount of money at stake, much more than any other league. Only Belgium has done that as far as I know and that's partially settled, they gave the league to brugge and they haven't sorted relegation/promotion/european spots, France and Holland just cancelled. You technically can award prizes and positions but no it's not going to happen in England. European places decided by play-offs if they can't play all games, another big legal problem if they can't do this relatively soon. The PL is a closed shop who look after themselves. They will bin Leeds and WBA off before they relegate one of their own and if the bottom 3-6 clubs stick together that will likely be enough to ensure they are all in next season on any vote. a play off system for European spots does not work as it involves a) too many teams anyway with teams down to 19th technically still able to finish 5th, b) those teams involved in play offs for European spots would also technically be eligible to be relegated - you can't partially settle a league, it makes a mockery of it, so if you have title winners and European spots you have to have relegation and c) play off system is unfair, 29 league games than some teams get a easier route to the end than others? it damages the leagues integrity. either finish the season properly or null and void. |
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Just wait. You can and should plan to resume but it's clearly contingent on safety in the first place and you need to get all your measures in place. But if you re-start in June, July or October why should it matter. Just do it once it's safe. Don't get why everyone's in a rush to finish this one and believes we can start next season and that'll just be tickety boo.
Simply put, there's too much money at stake to void it. Palace's chairman wrote his thoughts (https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/2020/may/chairman-steve-parish-premier-league-project-restart--crystal-palace/) and he couldn't be much clearer on this to be honest. Voiding the season now will see lots of clubs going bust, and not just in the PL. The effects will trickle down to lower leagues and businesses will simply have to fold. It's clear that if there are no more games then Sky, BT and the foreign TV companies are going to either withhold payment or go through the courts to claim money back and that will just kill lots of clubs who can't afford to lose it. We're still at least 2-3 weeks imo from clubs being allowed to train and then probably another 3 before a game and a lot can change. But they're clearly looking at resuming it and making the best they can of the situation. As Parish says - and as will be perfectly true for every other industry - this is far from cut and dried and there may be a lot of faffing round involved. A plan to cram in 90 games into a five week window might actually become ten or fifteen weeks but that's not a good enough reason not to try. |
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or else we could just put 19/20 on hold and restart on 9th March 21 and finish the PL season then Plenty of time to do some proper planning - a "new normal" will have been established i.e. we have a vaccine by then or if not established new social rules and we will have had winter 20/21 out of the way
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Just let the clubs go bust and let phoenixes rise from the ashes ;get shot of the avaricious players (although where they'll go is anybody's guess ) ,reform the ruling bodies, properly vet the owners and bring in a maximum salary cap. That way the game has got a chance to develop along sensible lines and reduces the gap between ridiculously paid (non) performers and fans.
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Football is a luxury.
Travel to work is not. Void and start again Sept. |
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11kv Not sure what point your trying to make. Quite a large number of people travelling to work is to provide a service/ trade/ goods that would be deemed a luxury. What should happen to them? |
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Watching Sunday Supplement on Sky yesterday, they were even talking about the 20/21 season possibly being cancelled, never mind this one! There is something on BBC website today, FA Chairman Greg Clark saying that 20/21 may be played behind closed doors. The way things are headed generally, society seems unwilling to take any chances. Nobody is saying it, but it seems we are holding out for a vaccine. In my opinion that is very unwise.
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Football Association chairman Greg Clarke has said it is hard to see fans returning to matches "any time soon".
If the Premier League and Football League seasons resume, those matches will be played behind closed doors. The Premier League is also preparing for the possibility of playing the 2020-21 season without fans. "The reality is that we just don't know how things are going to pan out," Clarke wrote in a letter to the FA governing council. "But with social distancing in place for some time to come we do face substantial changes to the whole football ecosystem. "For example it's hard to foresee crowds of fans - who are the lifeblood of the game - returning to matches any time soon." Clarke warned of an FA budget cut of £75m this year, with a "worst-case scenario" of a £300m deficit over the next four years impacting "every area of the game". |
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Humans are strange creatures, trying to predict their individual and collective behaviours is a fools errand.
Little doubt, however, that we will return to our previous social behaviours at some future point. Quite what the journey will look like from here to then is anyone's guess. My tuppence worth is that, once the shackles have been released, the inability of humans to resist temptation will create an unstoppable movement. |