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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746994 times)

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #360 on: March 13, 2020, 12:26:47 AM »
Relegate nine teams. Easy.

Though I've said my preferred solution is just starting again next March.

The idea that we can get everything sorted this summer is fantasy. The virus will get far worse before it gets better.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #361 on: March 13, 2020, 12:31:19 AM »
Relegate nine teams. Easy.

Though I've said my preferred solution is just starting again next March.

The idea that we can get everything sorted this summer is fantasy. The virus will get far worse before it gets better.

No way are they relegating 9 clubs.

If that happens there won't be much of a football league left as most will have gone to the wall.

I agree it could get bad.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #362 on: March 13, 2020, 12:35:19 AM »
The announcement tomorrow will be the season is suspended until further notice.

The only feasible option would be to resume the current PL and EFL campaigns some time in the near future.


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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #363 on: March 13, 2020, 12:36:35 AM »
The Third Division relegated 24 clubs in 1958...

(I'm not doing my bit to dispel the Villa historian stereotype here, admittedly).

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #364 on: March 13, 2020, 12:37:28 AM »
The announcement tomorrow will be the season is suspended until further notice.

The only feasible option would be to resume the current PL and EFL campaigns some time in the near future.

If by the "near future" you mean at the very least five to six months from now, then maybe.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #365 on: March 13, 2020, 12:37:35 AM »
I'm going Saturday.

I don't know where you're going but it won't be inside Villa Park.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #366 on: March 13, 2020, 12:38:48 AM »
The Third Division relegated 24 clubs in 1958...

(I'm not doing my bit to dispel the Villa historian stereotype here, admittedly).

Quiz quesion - which Villa player played in five divisions?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #367 on: March 13, 2020, 12:41:37 AM »
The PL will not relegate 9 clubs. Same as it won't promote 6.

If we have to wait a year to restart then we'll be lucky if 24 FL clubs survive, although if things are bad enough that there's a year of no football then I doubt anyone will give much of a shite about any club.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #368 on: March 13, 2020, 12:41:56 AM »
I reckon Julian Joachim has probably played in about eight but guess that's not the answer you're after.

I don't think I know this. Guess at Jim Dugdale but only because he's the first fifties footballer I thought of.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #369 on: March 13, 2020, 12:47:22 AM »
As I see it, the PL & the EFl are two different entities.  I'm not sure how closely they work with each other.

It is the PL's gift to decide who becomes members surely?  There is probably an agreement between the 2 leagues that 3 teams from each swap places at the end of each season.  However, if the season doesn't finish, would the PL be obliged to accept 3 teams?

It could be that the PL set the precedent and it has a domino effect throughout the EFL leagues.  For example, if the PL were to refuse entry to 3 teams, would the EFL then cancel all of their promotions and relegations?

Could the PL accept just 2 teams this season and relegate 4 the following season?  In that scenario, teams like Fulham & Brentford would miss out on the opportunity to compete for second place and also compete in the play offs.

These are exceptional circumstances and will no doubt require exceptional measures.  Any disputes are likely to go to arbitration rather than civil claims.

Whatever decision is finally agreed on, somebody is going to be left upset.  A lot will depend on wording within the PL rules and if they have a contingency for exceptional circumstances - Also, whether the 2 bodies have a good relationship with each other or whether it's strained.  I can't imagine the EFL being overly keen on the FA but modern times may have bought them closer together.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #370 on: March 13, 2020, 12:47:38 AM »
Anyone know how much money the Premier League has in the bank? Could they afford to bail out the lower leagues and, if so, for how long? Is there also a chance that Sky and BT could be in financial bother if there is no live sport for months on end or are they so rich that they would be fine?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #371 on: March 13, 2020, 12:48:16 AM »
Somebody who came from non league, or went abroad, like David Platt?
(Answering Dave!)

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #372 on: March 13, 2020, 12:51:13 AM »
I don't think he ever played non-league. Given that DW replied to me banging on about 1958, I assume he's after someone that played in (the old) Divisions One, Two, Three (North), Three (South) and Four.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #373 on: March 13, 2020, 12:51:14 AM »
Anyone know how much money the Premier League has in the bank? Could they afford to bail out the lower leagues and, if so, for how long? Is there also a chance that Sky and BT could be in financial bother if there is no live sport for months on end or are they so rich that they would be fine?

Not a clue on the PL but I read recently that the IOC has a reserve kitty of something like £700m!

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villas season ?
« Reply #374 on: March 13, 2020, 12:53:02 AM »
All professional tennis has been suspended until at least April 20th.

 


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