June: Boring, modern-day football to resume

Sadly we can't just live on 90s football nostalgia forever and we have to return to the modern game.

Some leagues have already resumed and in England we're getting the Premier League back from the 17th and the Championship on the 20th.

Honestly I haven't really missed football that much as it turns out. The lack of international tournament is far more of a loss to me than just binning football off until August would have been. Although some of my lack of enthusiasm for it being BACK might just be because crowdless sport is shit.

It's definitely down to the lack of crowds for me. I can't get too excited when each game feels like a glorified training session.

The whole act of a day out at the football, or watching an important late-season game with a big crowd is what I've missed a lot. It is going to feel fairly hollow finishing the season off without a crowd whatsoever, not that I disagree with getting the season fully completed.

Haven't missed it at all, and don't really give a shit what happens in it until we're back onto at least a semi-normal calendar with crowds. If Chelsea win the FA Cup at an empty Wembley, is it a valid trophy? I don't think so.

If anything, the aspect of football I have missed the most has been getting to watch the morning Sunday league games in the park that my flat overlooks. Weird, but true.

Biggest question is how this is going to shake out in fantasy terms. At the moment it looks like you can completely re-select your team as if the season hadn't started yet ( I don't know when this changed as it was a normal transfer thing last time I looked but maybe going past gameweek 38 has changed that) and it seems there's going to be a double gameweek to start things off with those catch-up games.

I watched Gascoigne on Netflix last night. It spent about an hour on Italia 90 and then like 14 seconds on Euro 96. Lucky I’d already had my Euro 96 fix thanks to ITV!

He really is a national treasure. :)

Scratch that fantasy ruse, you can't make any changes to your team.

I've just looked at my team for the first time since the incident and was surprised to see Jack Stephens.

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Was about to lose my shit at your initial update. All my planning and patience would have gone in the bin and preference given to those premature mongs. Not on my watch.

The value of that 2nd wildcard and chips being banked :drool:

I hope League One votes to end it now, if a global virus is going to stop our best season in forever it can at least do us the favour of not resuming and going on a huge losing streak.

Was this the one where you were going to break the spell of not finishing top 6 in any league since the Saxon invasion? Or did you do that in League Two?

We managed that in League 2 yeah, although we did our very best to get into the playoffs in 7th just to keep that run going.

I've been surprised by how little I've actually missed football.

It's easier to park near me every other Saturday, other than that I've barely noticed. The lack of football twats everywhere has been quite refreshing.

I haven’t missed Tottenham, but I’ve definitely missed the sport

Imagine if Corona was the cause for the MELTDOWN by Liverpool at the end of this season.

I've missed playing a bit more recently than watching. I was enjoying united's europa run but that's pretty much dead now if you have no chance of going to a fixture. United are pretty much full strength which is a perk of the lockdown with the ghost of Pogba returning and Rashford back from injury.

but meh.

I look forward to watching some of it but I don't think the campaign will be completed.

Oh god that means Laporte’s back.

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Give it a rest.

I do miss it, but I would say I miss going down there with my Dad, watching games with mates in the pub etc etc. A load of behind closed doors will scratch a bit of an itch - something to watch on the weekends - but until socialising is back to normal it won’t feel the same.

La Liga will be free to watch during June

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/la-...ts-app-3473158

I'll just leave this here

It’s only a matter of time before Liverpool fans are swarming somewhere - either for the match that mathematically wins the title, the last game of the season, or some kind of unofficial victory parade (probably all three) and the rest of the country hates us even more. :drool:

In some cultures, taking a knee means 'friend' or 'pal'.

How about taking something in the knee?

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How many of them wore that Suarez t-shirt?

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We managed that in League 2 yeah, although we did our very best to get into the playoffs in 7th just to keep that run going.

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There are all sorts of rumours going around, but I can't see any situation where you don't go up, barring the season actually resuming and you messing it up somehow. Rotherham is a bit different as it's a toss of a coin between about eight clubs as to who was second at the time, and it happened to be them.

I still think it'll be decoded on points per game after the majority vote on not restarting the season. It's not really fair, but what is?

The issue which might arise is someone like Wycombe voting to end the season, then jumping four places into the play offs, and then they get to play in the play offs. That's just wrong.

It's all Keegan-esque but I think I might achieve an orgasm without any other stimulation if Liverpool somehow conspire to fuck this right up through a mix of rustiness, no home advantage and pressure from this position.

Klopp's rant won't be as good.

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It's all Keegan-esque but I think I might achieve an orgasm without any other stimulation if Liverpool somehow conspire to fuck this right up through a mix of rustiness, no home advantage and pressure from this position.

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It's not going to happen, but it will be interesting to see how a fresh season develops under these circumstances. I would imagine City will be fairly formidable 'behind closed doors'. Especially with FFP going out the window as well.

I reckon Sterling will relish having no crowd.

Unless the other players boo him.

That's a lovely header by Schick.

This has started well but it would be a shame if Jhon Cordoba has to go off which looks likely.

Lovely finish from Modeste there.

Edit: And one from Olmo.

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There are all sorts of rumours going around, but I can't see any situation where you don't go up, barring the season actually resuming and you messing it up somehow.

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This is my fear, we've only lost three games all season but have had long enough off now to completely forget all of that and revert to type. As unlikely as it may be I've come to expect the worst when there's the possibility of the best.

A Frankfurt player just scored his first goal for the club with his first touch in this game just 14 seconds after coming on.

Ah, the German Michael Chopra.

Austrian.

He followed it up with a second too.

Absolute farce from Sunderland's owners again with regards season ticket holders. If anyone has renewed or renews their season ticket for next season and the games only go ahead behind closed doors, they won't offer refunds. Rather, they'll offer a 'free' streaming service for home games. That's regardless of whether you've bought multiple season tickets for one household. No proportional refunds, incentives or anything. £20 a game for a shitty League One stream for me, and much more for many others.

They've also assured us that if we don't renew, our seats will remain reserved until further notice, and nobody will lose their loyalty points either. Whilst this is positive, in doing so they're actively discouraging people from renewing or buying season tickets.

A Spurs player has the Covids

Please let it be our hero.

It's 'not a key player' apparently. Which I'm sure he's happy about. Whoever it is.

The Contact Tracers are probably trying to explain the situation to Aurier as we speak.

This does raise a good point, I reckon I'm going to take the Sean Dyche Brexit Burnley path of selection for my fantasy team. Can't be risking it with the BAME lot.

Anyone up for Bournemouth v Palace on the BBC?

Hai Phong FC v Ho Chi Minh City FC kicks off in 17 minutes.

If we (HCMCFC) win, we go 5pts clear after only 3 games :drool:

Phi Son :moop:

https://gyazo.com/1c4f9c63f8c8b8c6192208a5da66bee2.gif

He's massively overthought that.

Would have been amazing had it gone in off the guy on the ground's head (and then been ruled out for offside).

That's what I was expecting.

Is this confirmed?

https://i.imgur.com/4NeD1sq.jpg