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

[Mister E]

I'd kill at the moment for a big lice of victoria's sponge.

A big lick of Victoria's what??

[mr underhill]

should have spell checked that one. I meant to say A big slice of Victoria Sponge

[eamonn]

No, you meant to start a bun-athon!

[Legion]

The feasibility of 'Project Restart'

[aev]

The feasibility of 'Project Restart'

I think there have been a few articles from journalists (notably The Guardian) questioning the return but this is the first I have seen from the BBC.

[olaftab]

should have spell checked that one. I meant to say A big slice of Victoria Sponge

Oh no you didn't. You knew exactly what you were doing😊

[john2710]

The fact they’ve given it a code name tells you   all you need to know.

After the way the Tories / press singled out footballers for not playing their part, I’d be very cautious about re-starting if I was the PL bosses.

[David_Nab]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-draw-up-seven-21949358

All footballs, GPS units, cones, corner flags, goalposts and other equipment to be disinfected before and after use by staff wearing PPE
Players to wear snood/masks at all times
Cars to be parked three spaces apart
No massages unless approved by club doctor
Fluids to be left at designated pick-up points
Only visit training block to use toilet
Initially only five players per training group
Players to be given designated time slots and 15 minutes to prepare
75 minutes of small group training
15 minutes recovery
Players and staff will be banned from spitting at the Training Ground

An utter shambles and this is just for training ...

Neutral venues discussed as Police worried about fans gathering ..so 1) Are they going to keep the neutral ground secret 2)Do they think 1000's of fans can't drive to another ground or are we into the realms of it's Liverpool playing their game will be as far away from Liverpool as possible...

[VinnieChase84]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-draw-up-seven-21949358

All footballs, GPS units, cones, corner flags, goalposts and other equipment to be disinfected before and after use by staff wearing PPE
Players to wear snood/masks at all times
Cars to be parked three spaces apart
No massages unless approved by club doctor
Fluids to be left at designated pick-up points
Only visit training block to use toilet
Initially only five players per training group
Players to be given designated time slots and 15 minutes to prepare
75 minutes of small group training
15 minutes recovery
Players and staff will be banned from spitting at the Training Ground

An utter shambles and this is just for training ...

Neutral venues discussed as Police worried about fans gathering ..so 1) Are they going to keep the neutral ground secret 2)Do they think 1000's of fans can't drive to another ground or are we into the realms of it's Liverpool playing their game will be as far away from Liverpool as possible...

Thank god football is none contact and 5 a side. This will be great prep for full sized games.
The loss of home stadium advantage at all (even without fans) makes the whole integrity a laughing stock.

[dave.woodhall]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-draw-up-seven-21949358

All footballs, GPS units, cones, corner flags, goalposts and other equipment to be disinfected before and after use by staff wearing PPE
Players to wear snood/masks at all times
Cars to be parked three spaces apart
No massages unless approved by club doctor
Fluids to be left at designated pick-up points
Only visit training block to use toilet
Initially only five players per training group
Players to be given designated time slots and 15 minutes to prepare
75 minutes of small group training
15 minutes recovery
Players and staff will be banned from spitting at the Training Ground

An utter shambles and this is just for training ...

Neutral venues discussed as Police worried about fans gathering ..so 1) Are they going to keep the neutral ground secret 2)Do they think 1000's of fans can't drive to another ground or are we into the realms of it's Liverpool playing their game will be as far away from Liverpool as possible...

Thank god football is none contact and 5 a side. This will be great prep for full sized games.
The loss of home stadium advantage at all (even without fans) makes the whole integrity a laughing stock.

Just to give some idea of the level of debate, a lot of Twitter comments on the subject of 350 people at a closed-doors game were on the theme of "That's not many in a 50,000 seater stadium, they can spread around."

[olaftab]

All footballs, GPS units, cones, corner flags, goalposts and other equipment to be disinfected before and after use by staff wearing PPE

This is hilarious. A sanitised football cleaned by staff wearing PPE becomes suspect as soon as a player touches it or heads it.

[David_Nab]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-must-forget-crazy-21948023

How can you retain the Premier League’s “sporting integrity” when, after clubs have enjoyed home advantage for two thirds of the season, games are suddenly played at “neutral, approved” venues like Wembley, St George’s Park or Twickenham?
Where’s the sporting integrity when, after two thirds of the season is played using three substitutes you can suddenly use five, as has been suggested?

What I have been saying for a while and there is lack of VAR to add to that and god knows what ever crazy plan they have next .

[Steve67]

It's not about money though. Honestly Guv.

[VinnieChase84]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8271249/Premier-League-planning-play-theres-one-positive-coronavirus-test.html

Gets even better. Whole things beyond a disgrace

[David_Nab]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8271249/Premier-League-planning-play-theres-one-positive-coronavirus-test.html

Gets even better. Whole things beyond a disgrace

That is a complete piss take