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

[curiousorange]

Before the lockdown I was on point for the London Marathon, so running thirty-odd miles a week. Now I'm down to about half that, most of it run with a snood covering my nose and mouth to try and minimise contact with passers-by. Same pace as before, but I'm absolutely frigged. There's no doubt a face covering makes a difference, professional athlete or not.

[David_Nab]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-top-six-row-21960452

Seems to me the top clubs are more desperate for the cash than the others

Void season and promoting to more it still floating about - seems most reasonable idea to me

[TopDeck113]

The Premier League have to present their case to the Government. Hopefully it gets thrown out.

Makes me wish we'd still have David Cameron as PM. He'd be making sure that both his clubs stayed up.

[BoVillan esq]

Its a bit like the Abba song

'' Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world''

Funny is the only way you can describe this as well as being downright sad and desperate, its about as honest as saying you've carried out 120k virus tests and meeting the target when in reality you've got nowhere near it.

The season is over, finished weeks ago, its done, forced cancellation due to extreme circumstances and for goodness sake somebody whack that ugly twat on the BBC that keeps saying, '' Football coming back whether you like it or not'', sounds like a threat to me.

 

[BoVillan esq]

The Premier League have to present their case to the Government. Hopefully it gets thrown out.

Makes me wish we'd still have David Cameron as PM. He'd be making sure that both his clubs stayed up.

Problem is he'd want a referendum to decide.

[Pete3206]

The whole thing gets more ridiculous by the day. The integrity of the game is in tatters.

[The Edge]

The whole thing gets more ridiculous by the day. The integrity of the game is in tatters.

Absolutely. People are still dying from this horrible virus can you imagine the fallout if someone was to contract the virus at one of these behind closed  door games? It's a risk and it's one they should not even think about taking until the virus has been defeated. The whole idea reeks of money over safety.

[andyh]

The whole thing gets more ridiculous by the day. The integrity of the game is in tatters.

More like the integrity of the fuckers in charge of it.

[Steve67]

With six from our last ten games at home, neutral venues screws us over.  That and Kevin Friend.

[dave.woodhall]

Someone once made the good point to me that football only works if the clubs work together. This is the one time they aren't, and it could destroy the Premier League.

[Steve67]

I'm not sure we will ever stop the likes of Man United, Liverpool and Tottenham from having that air of entitlement.  We can add Man City to that list since they became rich too.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm not sure we will ever stop the likes of Man United, Liverpool and Tottenham from having that air of entitlement.  We can add Man City to that list since they became rich too.

They can be as entitled as they like but they aren't going to win many matches if the other teams won't play them.

[WassallVillain]

Things I can’t understand about this rush to get season finished
1j how can you enforce social distancing in the wider public and ignore it on a football field. Within hours there will be groups playing in the park and getting £30 fines

2) how many neutral venues will be needed if championship and premier league are to be completed.

3) how can they contemplate continuing a competition with different rules to pre Covid such as 5 subs, behind closed doors, neutral venues and no VAR. I’ve no real problem with BCD for new season or this if at home venue.

[Steve67]

I'm not sure we will ever stop the likes of Man United, Liverpool and Tottenham from having that air of entitlement.  We can add Man City to that list since they became rich too.

They can be as entitled as they like but they aren't going to win many matches if the other teams won't play them.

I agree with you Dave.

[ChicagoLion]

This is just desperation, the PL is still in denial and resist.
They think somehow this industry is going to return to business as usual with inflated salaries, egos and sense of self importance.
It isn’t safe to play and everyone with any sense knows that and also knows it won’t be anytime soon.
Once they put the idea of completing this season any time Soon behind them, they can start contingency planing for start dates to resume from September onwards.
Next is a renegotiation of the contractual arrangements which will require huge compromises.
If they don’t work this out then as DW says, they will fragment.