How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?

[Fred Crump]

Just stop the season now and select the teams to stay up in alphabetical order

[sid1964]

I would not be surprised if ALL football was cancelled this weekend.

[Ads]

I would not be surprised if ALL football was cancelled this weekend.

We've not played football since January. Villa once again, blazing the trail.

[Duncan Shaw]

The cynic in me suggesting they have postponed City-Arsenal to keep the "title race" going for another week or so....

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Apparently at valencia last night thousands of fans turned up outside stadium, stayed there the whole night...kind of defeats the idea of playing to empty stadiums.

[Big Ming]

If games get postponed what’s the max time this could occur without scrapping the leagues? 2-3 weeks? This is going to get a lot worse and I expect we are going to have to have closed doors games. Either that or scrap it and put the teams into playoff games to decide promotion/relegation (god knows how that could work either, teams would commence legal challenges etc) . Unprecedented times

It's not just the fans. If it gets into the players (even a smattering across the Leagues) football is finished for the next few months.
Eventually promotion/relegation or neither may well be an issue for the Courts.

[frank black]

Cancel the season and make promotion/relegation  based upon positions now? Do the playoffs in the Summer. Pay out massive compensation to all teams that could mathematically have stayed up etc. Give Liverpool the title and let fans tease them forevermore About their tainted trophy.

[Big Ming]

Cancel the season and make promotion/relegation  based upon positions now? Do the playoffs in the Summer. Pay out massive compensation to all teams that could mathematically have stayed up etc. Give Liverpool the title and let fans tease them forevermore About their tainted trophy.

Voiding the entire season would be more likely?

[Footy-Vill]

The Premier League game between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday has been postponed “as a precautionary measure” due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Premier League has said. Following the news that Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis had contracted the virus, Arsenal confirmed that an unspecified number of unnamed players met Marinakis after their Europa League tie on the 27 February and that those players are now in self-isolation.

[olaftab]

The Premier League are not going g to take any affirmative  steps. It will cost them too much money if they do so they will wait for government to stop football and compensate clubs.

[brian green]

I think you are spot on as always aftab.  Turkeys don't vote for Christmas.  The League will try to stall until they are given orders by Government.  Then get the taxpayers to foot the bill.

[brian green]

The back story of course is the players contracting the disease.  Whatever arrangements are made they still depend on clubs having enough players to field a team.

[VillaSpen]

End the season now and forever have an asterisk next to Liverpool's status as champions.

[Footy-Vill]

Dean Smith went to Rome during the mid season break.

[Big Ming]

The Premier League game between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday has been postponed “as a precautionary measure” due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Premier League has said. Following the news that Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis had contracted the virus, Arsenal confirmed that an unspecified number of unnamed players met Marinakis after their Europa League tie on the 27 February and that those players are now in self-isolation.

He also owns Forest, I think.