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

[Kimaster1976]

Tammy Abraham insists the Premier League should not return until it is safe to do so.
He has a concern for his and his family well being

This is exactly the sort of attitude to take . More Premier league footballers should be socially responsible stepping forward to stop this money league going on

The thing is though its not going to be truly safe to ever return until a vaccine is found and in use......that's at least a year away still.

There will only be a handful of clubs actually still in business by that point.

Whether this season restarts in June, or a new one starts in August, December, next March etc....until everyone has been vaccinated (or had the virus and become immune) the risk is going to be there, not just for players but every single person in the world.

Ask Tammy if he is OK not playing and receiving no income until then, probably not.

[TelfordVilla]

why do people want to promote Leeds and WBA ? They haven't qualified for promotion if the season ends without being completed, just as we haven't qualified for relegation.

[DB]

It can't happen and it mustn't happen. Infections are continuing amongst players. It's still ongoing. The season has been a dead loss but declare Liverpool champions as they have been streets ahead of everyone else, scrap relegation which, although good for us, is too close to call and even though we were truly shit at the end there, we might have escaped, and promote Leeds and Albion.

Sadly, Germany and Italy leading the way in getting their top flights back up and running, despite continuing positive cases with players, will give the Premier League all the excuse they need to start back up again.

Yep, and with those Leagues available to watch around the world the PL will hate the fact people are watching them and no the PL. They will be pushing harder to get it started ASAP.

[adrenachrome]

Predictable piece in the ToryGraph by Oliver Brown.

Headlines:

The risks facing Premier League players are negligible – it is time to stop appeasing and play

All possible accommodation of players' concerns have been made and risk can never be truly eliminated

[LeeB]

Predictable piece in the ToryGraph by Oliver Brown.

Headlines:

The risks facing Premier League players are negligible – it is time to stop appeasing and play

All possible accommodation of players' concerns have been made and risk can never be truly eliminated

The choice of language there tells you everything about the thrust of the argument.

"appeasement"

Drawing parallels between players concerned for their own and their families safety with caving in to Hitler.

[David_Nab]

It can't happen and it mustn't happen. Infections are continuing amongst players. It's still ongoing. The season has been a dead loss but declare Liverpool champions as they have been streets ahead of everyone else, scrap relegation which, although good for us, is too close to call and even though we were truly shit at the end there, we might have escaped, and promote Leeds and Albion.

Sadly, Germany and Italy leading the way in getting their top flights back up and running, despite continuing positive cases with players, will give the Premier League all the excuse they need to start back up again.

Those are the headline leagues but there are many others starting , The Korea league started and got 3.3mil viewers on Twitter so seemingly people are quite ok watching games with no fans.

I think it will restart here its just a case of when , mid to late June I would say.

[aev]

Predictable piece in the ToryGraph by Oliver Brown.

Headlines:

The risks facing Premier League players are negligible – it is time to stop appeasing and play

All possible accommodation of players' concerns have been made and risk can never be truly eliminated

The choice of language there tells you everything about the thrust of the argument.

"appeasement"

Drawing parallels between players concerned for their own and their families safety with caving in to Hitler.

The press are hilarious. They moan about the clubs at the bottom and their self interest, and yet write drivel like this. Obviously with no sport to report on, they have plenty of self interest in getting it back on asap too.

[Ad@m]

It can't happen and it mustn't happen. Infections are continuing amongst players. It's still ongoing. The season has been a dead loss but declare Liverpool champions as they have been streets ahead of everyone else, scrap relegation which, although good for us, is too close to call and even though we were truly shit at the end there, we might have escaped, and promote Leeds and Albion.

Sadly, Germany and Italy leading the way in getting their top flights back up and running, despite continuing positive cases with players, will give the Premier League all the excuse they need to start back up again.

Those are the headline leagues but there are many others starting , The Korea league started and got 3.3mil viewers on Twitter so seemingly people are quite ok watching games with no fans.

I think it will restart here its just a case of when , mid to late June I would say.

Absolutely.

The Premier League are arrogant enough to not care what the Korean league are doing.  But when their "competitors" start up (ie Germany, France, Spain and Italy) then they'll see their broadcasting dominance disappearing unless they follow suit.

[Meanwood Villa]

Well France won't start again, they've already ended the season. Will be interesting to see how the German restart goes.

[Rigadon]

https://www.skysports.com/share/11988442

I really don’t understand why the government are now ‘pushing’ for this.

It must, at least in part, be because they are trying to encourage other workers back to work.  If the football is seen to be back, even behind closed doors, it helps the drive to get the economy back off its arse and sod the risks.

Then there's the fact they don't want a massive bail out bill.

Loads of reasons, all of them financial. 

[devilla]

League two have agreed to cancel the rest of the season and use PPG.

Don't think the premier league will take any notice of that although PPG is a bit worrying.

[Alex77]

League two have agreed to cancel the rest of the season and use PPG.

Don't think the premier league will take any notice of that although PPG is a bit worrying.

I think it's relatively sensible. They have agreed on PPG in order to finalise the season. What they have yet to agree on is promotion and relegation.

[Dave P]

No relegation but this could be the Bury effect.

[frank black]

League two have agreed to cancel the rest of the season and use PPG.

Don't think the premier league will take any notice of that although PPG is a bit worrying.

I think it's relatively sensible. They have agreed on PPG in order to finalise the season. What they have yet to agree on is promotion and relegation.

Apparently no relegation...a precedent set...I know the leaks from the league meeting a few weeks ago said promotions but no relegations.

[wozwebs]

Someone on twitter (freelance journalist) has said earlier that John McGinn won't play any part if we do come back as he has asthma and is in the at risk category.