Topic: The Impact of COVID 19 on Sport...

[sinnermichael]

Richard Jolly
@RichJolly
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Jordon Ibe's season: more lockdown-breaching haircuts (1) than Bournemouth points or in games he played (0) or Bournemouth goals with him on the pitch (0).

[Raid]

Can't work out whether Ibe is a wasted talent or is just not very good.

[Crosby Nick]

Scored the winner against us for Blackburn at Anfield about 20yrs ago if my memory serves me right

FA Cup 4th round, played on the weekend the 3rd round is usually played because we played the 3rd in December for some unknown reason. Huddersfield away. The year United didn’t enter I think.

[Ziltoid]

Can't work out whether Ibe is a wasted talent or is just not very good.

It's like the age old question of whether he's cup tied or not

[newterp]

It's like the age old question of whether he's cup tied or not

so the answer is "Yes" or is it "Maybe"

[El Lobo]

Ibe’s been having mental health problems, no? Feel for the lad

[WhereAngelsPlay]

The prom/rel decision only affects the 71 EFL teams. 

Prem could vote on something entirely different.

At a cost of £10-£15m per club.

[Dazzer23]

I remember not being to bothered when Sterling left because I felt Ibe would end up being a better player. I guess that's why I've never been asked to be a Football talent scout.

[Number 7]

Premier League wants full contact training by next week

“The Premier League wants clubs to be able to start full contact training by the end of next week but faces a major effort to convince players to agree to the next stage of Project Restart.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/premier-league-wants-full-contact-training-by-next-week-kncj7vl9b

[Welshred]

I'm 50 - I've never heard of the bloke - and I'm not embarrassed at all - Nathan Blake should be embarrassed for being a weapon.

Unfortunately I have. A lot. Imagine being Welsh in the 90s and going from Ian Rush as our strike to this useless twat

Can't work out whether Ibe is a wasted talent or is just not very good.

I'm going down the wasted talent route. His pace, power and skill should have translated to so much more than it did.

Tranmere not happy about that EFL statement either

[FlashGordon]

I was fully on board the Ibe hype train as well for my sins.

[rob1966]

Premier League wants full contact training by next week

“The Premier League wants clubs to be able to start full contact training by the end of next week but faces a major effort to convince players to agree to the next stage of Project Restart.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/premier-league-wants-full-contact-training-by-next-week-kncj7vl9b

Show them this

[Caston]

Premier League wants full contact training by next week

“The Premier League wants clubs to be able to start full contact training by the end of next week but faces a major effort to convince players to agree to the next stage of Project Restart.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/premier-league-wants-full-contact-training-by-next-week-kncj7vl9b

I swear these people just make things up. Why do they face a major effort to convince players? Players will be back training knowing full contact training will start soon. It’s only a handful of players who have decided not to return to training yet

[Red-Dread]

Wait, wait, is this a competition?
Well then, I'm 51 and I've never heard of Nathan Blake

'course you have:

"he's black - he's mean
he robbed a fruit machine"

EDIT - the above was a Cardiff City fan chant, not my personal
view etc

[Dim Glas]

I swear these people just make things up. Why do they face a major effort to convince players? Players will be back training knowing full contact training will start soon. It’s only a handful of players who have decided not to return to training yet

I honestly think giving the sodding thing a name like 'project restart' isn't helping. The whole thing is a soap opera in multiple parts.   

[rob1966]

I honestly think giving the sodding thing a name like 'project restart' isn't helping. The whole thing is a soap opera in multiple parts.   

Should have called it "get out and play football or fuck off and work in Tesco"

[The North Bank]

I honestly think giving the sodding thing a name like 'project restart' isn't helping. The whole thing is a soap opera in multiple parts.

Project "man up"

[24/7]

Show them this

"Hazard" - yeaaaaah riiiiiiiight

[24/7]

Project "man up"

Indeed only applies to the men's game, since the WSL appears to have accepted they're not playing again this season.....!

[The North Bank]

Indeed only applies to the men's game, since the WSL appears to have accepted they're not playing again this season.....!

They need to grow some balls.

[24/7]

They need to grow some balls.

Only if they're disinfected at the same time.

[rob1966]

Only if they're disinfected at the same time.

Just don't copy the Yanks

18:53
Calls to US poison control centres on the rise
More than 3,600 cases of disinfectant exposure were reported in April to the US poison control centres, compared to 1,676 in February.

Experts warn against using cleaning products beyond their intended use, such as wiping down groceries.

Dr Kelly Johnson-Arbor from the National Capital Poison Center said there was no medical reason to be "drinking or bathing in disinfectants".

In April, President Trump seemed to suggest injecting bleach as way of "cleaning" Covid-19 from the inside. But the next day, he told journalists: "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52749186

[UntouchableLuis]

Interesting line from Bundesliga CEO Christian Seifert in tomorrow's @SZ. "If you look at England or the German third division, you get the sense that clubs suddenly detect moral concerns [about continuing the season], depending on their position in the table."

[surfer. Fuck you generator.]

Thought Ibe would replace Sterling too. Rated Assaidi as an unorthodox talent as well. Think that's about as bad as it got in rating players. To be fair Ibe had it all physically and technically from a young age, but as it has now been shown through the years, doesn't have the mental game to be a top wide attacker. Don't mean mental strength but the thought processes, the ability to read an opponent, engage, go past consistently.

Assaidi's a bit of a mystery. Impossible to get the ball off, could've been a lot more useful than he was, iirc there was a rumour about his signing being foisted on Rodgers, it being more a club scouting department signing rather than a Brendan pick.

[Dim Glas]

Interesting line from Bundesliga CEO Christian Seifert in tomorrow's @SZ. "If you look at England or the German third division, you get the sense that clubs suddenly detect moral concerns [about continuing the season], depending on their position in the table."

And we all know he's right. But no one here in the PL or in the shite English media will dare point that out.

[Fromola]

The beaches are as busy as the Normandy landings and the parks are like a festival. I don't think they should be but nobody can with a straight face say footballers should be housebound given Boris has given us all carte blanche to let the masses do what they want.

Infection rates must be zero in Manchester though with no sanctimonious City or United fan venturing out of their homes for 9 weeks.

[Number 7]

La Liga starting again on June 12th.

[Samie]

First game back is the Seville derby too. 

[rob1966]

The beaches are as busy as the Normandy landings and the parks are like a festival. I don't think they should be but nobody can with a straight face say footballers should be housebound given Boris has given us all carte blanche to let the masses do what they want.

Infection rates must be zero in Manchester though with no sanctimonious City or United fan venturing out of their homes for 9 weeks.

Whats Surrey like?

[Red_Rich]

La Liga starting again on June 12th.

I'd be surprised if we start on that date as well.  Aren't we supposed to be about 10-14 days behind Spain and Italy in our curve?

June 19th might be possible, I guess.

[Reeves]

I was gutted when Sterling left. I said he was the closest the prem had to Messi. My mates all said I was talking bollocks and that Ibe would be better than Sterling. Absolute bollocks i said from the off. Even now I rip my mates about it.   

[Number 7]

I'd be surprised if we start on that date as well.  Aren't we supposed to be about 10-14 days behind Spain and Italy in our curve?

June 19th might be possible, I guess.

June 19th I'm thinking. Otherwise cramming in that many games (184?) before July 31 will be very difficult.

[Disintegration]

I'd be surprised if we start on that date as well.  Aren't we supposed to be about 10-14 days behind Spain and Italy in our curve?

June 19th might be possible, I guess.

The thing that might be a complicating factor is that our moronic government loosened restrictions too quickly, and I just can’t see how we'll avoid a spike in infections. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it slip to mid / late July as a result, and then it relies on the outcome of negotiations with UEFA and how to approach a next season that won’t realistically be able to start until late September.

[Reeves]

The Manchester bias on BBC Sport is pathetic. They've Giggs' goal against Arsenal down as being the best FA Cup moment ever 

Objectively it's in contention. Gerrard's WHU Cup Final strike is better though. And that's before you get into the Ronnie Radford/Rickie Villa BBC love affair

[Dim Glas]

I was gutted when Sterling left. I said he was the closest the prem had to Messi. My mates all said I was talking bollocks and that Ibe would be better than Sterling. Absolute bollocks i said from the off. Even now I rip my mates about it.

Not sure how many you'll hook with that in this thread 

[rafathegaffa83]

Interesting line from Bundesliga CEO Christian Seifert in tomorrow's @SZ. "If you look at England or the German third division, you get the sense that clubs suddenly detect moral concerns [about continuing the season], depending on their position in the table."

Seifert nails it one

[Fiasco]

Assaidi's a bit of a mystery. Impossible to get the ball off, could've been a lot more useful than he was, iirc there was a rumour about his signing being foisted on Rodgers, it being more a club scouting department signing rather than a Brendan pick.

Was it Assaidi who had a fucking cracking game away at Fulham in the cup? I thought he'd get more chances after that and really kick on. He had ability, no doubt about it.

[El Lobo]

Was it Assaidi who had a fucking cracking game away at Fulham in the cup? I thought he'd get more chances after that and really kick on. He had ability, no doubt about it.

You always wonder how much the likes of him, Alberto and Aspas suffered from the ‘transfer committee vs Brendan Rodgers’ thing.

[Jm55]

I was gutted when Sterling left. I said he was the closest the prem had to Messi. My mates all said I was talking bollocks and that Ibe would be better than Sterling. Absolute bollocks i said from the off. Even now I rip my mates about it.

I mean I wouldn’t be too cocky considering you also compared Sterling to Messi.

[Crosby Nick]

Was it Assaidi who had a fucking cracking game away at Fulham in the cup? I thought he'd get more chances after that and really kick on. He had ability, no doubt about it.

It was West Brom in the League Cup. Same night Sahin scored twice for us.

The most useful thing Assaidi did for us was score a winner against Chelsea. For Stoke.