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

[Des Little]

All eyes on Germany later today (Thursday), where Merkel is expected to announce one way or another their intention to fulfil the season or not. If they end it there, given their far superior dealing with the virus thus far, then there really isn’t a case to answer for us to not follow suit.

[aldridgeboy]

The plans I’m seeing are just utterly ridiculous.
Football could really damage its own image for a very long time.

Call it off , and call it off now

[Pete3206]

Imbeciles everywhere.

Cancel the season idiots.

[sid1964]

The season will be cancelled - however what that means for us I am not sure.

Yesterday the owners of QPR - reckon that quite a few clubs will go out of business within the next few weeks, which is such a shame if you are a fan of one of those clubs or an employee.

Also G Neville made a good point about clubs that are deferring wages (such as us), the cost to these clubs when they have to pay back the deferred wages later in the year will cause lots of issues for those clubs.

If you have a few quid to spend in the summer you could be picking up some real bargains in the transfer window, as most clubs will reduce the value of players just to get them off the wage bill.

[johnc]

However the players will only move if it suits them.

[OzVilla]

Cancelling the season wouldn’t mean anything to us if we hadn’t put in 3 of our most insipid and inept performances in 3 of our last 4 league games.

[stubbsyandy]

Just call it off..it’s not feasible and it doesn’t matter at the moment. If it means the over financed premier league has to have a rethink about itself that can only be good!
Stay safe.

[chrisw1]

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

I'm not against them looking at the viability of closed doors games in principal.  But seriously if this article is true and they think it would in any way reflect a fair and reasonable way to end the season it would be a joke.  No club should agree to this.

[mr underhill]

The EPL are imploding.

[aev]

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

I'm not against them looking at the viability of closed doors games in principal.  But seriously if this article is true and they think it would in any way reflect a fair and reasonable way to end the season it would be a joke.  No club should agree to this.

I am not sure why any relegation threatened clubs would agree to giving up home advantage, and increasing the number of subs to 5 would presumably benefit the clubs with bigger stronger squads.

It is farcical.

[mallo]

Procedures drawn up by what looks like the minds of a group of 14 year olds, and I'm being harsh on 14 year old here. And the brassneck to suggest a positive test would mean - play on, nothing to see here - staggering insensitivity and just confirms they all need to press the reset button. I would hope the backlash would prove to the money grabbing idiots that they are not the centre of the universe.

[VinnieChase84]

This is a severe respiratory illness that cooks literally end a players career. When the government guidelines is keep 2 Metres from anyone then how the hell are the players going to be insured if they catch it during a match? The repercussions could be huge

[David_Nab]

French league awarding the title to PSG final standings to stand , ie teams in relegation zone relegated

[Ads]

What an awful decision.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

All the teams at the bottom of that league have played 28 games and only 3 points separate 3rd from 4th bottom with 10 games to play.
I know these are exceptional times but why bother playing the final third of any season if they can come to that decision with all to play for.