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The Premier League Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Jun 28, 2016.

  1. saintrichie123

    saintrichie123 Well-Known Member

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    Really can’t see the premier league finishing, one reason is say a match is played and one player breaks a leg, injures a knee etc ....that player would then need to go to hospital placing a massive burden on the hospital system at a time the virus is escalating.
    As much as I love football it is not an essential service.
     
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  2. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Just met a Saints fan whilst on my constitutional and we discussed this.
    We stood at the required distance apart....one question...can COVID19 be passed on if two people laugh like a drain. :)
     
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  3. Kaito

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  4. Tupac

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    If the premier league games are null and voided, does that mean that nightmare home game against Leicester will be erased from the history books?
     
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  5. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    It already has been. Never happened...
     
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  6. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    What game? Aren't Leicester City in the First Division? :emoticon-0147-emo:
     
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  7. Libby

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    Yes. Unfortunately.
     
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  8. Number 1 Jasper

    Number 1 Jasper Well-Known Member

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    I honestly can’t see them stopping the rest of the season .
     
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  9. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    If the present crisis drifts on into the late summer, there will be three choices: abandon 2019/20 and wait for the screaming; finish 2019/20 and abandon 2020/21 which will exacerbate the financial losses of all teams; or finish 2019/20 but have a severely curtailed 2020/21 (no cups perhaps).
     
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  10. Schrodinger's Cat

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    Legally fine, but morally bankrupt / borderline parasitic behaviour.

    If this is the path they go down it shouldn't be forgotten, an extremely small wage deferral on the part of some players at each club would negate the need for this.

    I don't have an issue with clubs in lower leagues as they need to do it to survive, but no PL club should be doing this, least of all bloody Spurs.
     
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  12. Schrodinger's Cat

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    They are not even topping furloughed wages up to 100% for non playing staff - If other clubs follow suit, I may stop following football
     
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  13. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

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    A new set of values is taking shape where people will no longer be prepared to accept the greed we have witnessed since Thatcher. What price a footballer now and what price a health worker.

    National catastrophes and disasters change people individually and collectively as a society. Just look at the transformational changes in society following both World Wars. In neither case did things return to how they were before.
     
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  14. saintrichie123

    saintrichie123 Well-Known Member

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    I'm patiently waiting to see what route we go down.
     
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    Yeah, me too. Ready to be ****ing annoyed.
     
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  17. st_brendy

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    Now that the door is open, I very much expect many other PL clubs to follow suit unfortunately.
     
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  18. thereisonlyoneno7

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    I'm normally quite chilled about people and what they earn - I don't always buy into the thought of "oh well they can afford it, take it off them". After all, some people have come form nothing and build whole organisations to great risks to themselves and families etc to earn the big bucks and now pay 100s or 1000s of people. Also the more you earn, the more you spend. I know i have probably the same amount of disposable income than I did when I earned 15k a year less - I waste more now.

    HOWEVER!

    Footballers really do not fall into this. If a premier league footballer took about a 5% pay cut, clubs could afford to pay the wages of ALL the non playing staff that are being Furloughed, at no cost to the government or ultimately us.

    I earn less in a year than they earn in a week, and if my employer said, look if you take a 3 month 5% pay cut we can pay all the rest of the staff and keep the company afloat I would do it.
     
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    Were it not for self isolation & a lockdown, I'd recommend Eddie Howe goes for a walk around with his head held high. Well done sir on being the first epl gaffer to suggest they are still a part of our society.
     
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  20. San Tejón

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    I don’t blame any company for using the government job retention scheme, because it is there to be used.
    It is good that they are topping the wages up, so the staff don’t miss out, and I would hope that all Premier League clubs would do the same.
    My company, despite recording record sales, a 17.6% increase for the first 12 weeks of this year, have confirmed today that they won’t give me a penny to stay at home and protect my wife.
     
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