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***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20
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Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I'm coming around to the idea of stopping the current season now and handing out the prizes based on current standings. No play-offs and the Cups being completed as pre-season matches before the next season starts. I've always been against it, not because of lawsuits or some poor dears being shafted, but because the chances of starting a new season in August as scheduled are slim and there's no way of knowing if next season might also be interrupted. So you could have two seasons struck from the record. I've been of the opinion that this season should finish come what may and next season and beyond adjusted accordingly.
However if they stopped now and handed out the prizes - The Greens are Going Up.
However if they stopped now and handed out the prizes - The Greens are Going Up.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I think that's because of player contracts. People are all thinking legally instead of humanitarianily (good word that).
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
The player contracts are only part of the legal issue. There are also sponsorship/kit supplier deals that are time sensitive, so it will be a real unholy mess if the season doesn't get done by the end of June.
I don't really see the humanitarian arguments for finishing the season before the end of June though. Seems to me that this could not really be done without risking the health of a lot of people, which doesn't sound humanitarian to me at all.
I don't really see the humanitarian arguments for finishing the season before the end of June though. Seems to me that this could not really be done without risking the health of a lot of people, which doesn't sound humanitarian to me at all.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
From a humanitarian point of view football is irrelevant. But it's legal stuff that is going to stop decisions being made.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Right. And why is this a problem?
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
If you're a lawyer it probably isn't.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
No no, I genuinely do not get your point.
You appear to be suggesting we should not let legal issues get in the way of resolving what is fundamentally a legal issue.
I thought at first you were suggesting we should prioritise humanitarian considerations over those that are legal, which I would understand, but then a few posts ago you said humanitarian considerations were irrelevant.
You appear to be suggesting we should not let legal issues get in the way of resolving what is fundamentally a legal issue.
I thought at first you were suggesting we should prioritise humanitarian considerations over those that are legal, which I would understand, but then a few posts ago you said humanitarian considerations were irrelevant.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
My original post was a tongue in cheek response to my catching up with the thread and GIMH saying (presumably with a degree of tongue in cheek as well) that any decision that's made should be with Tranmere's league position taken into account.
Nowhere do I even remotely say that humanitarian considerations are irrelevant. I just explained why I thought the 30th June deadline had been fixed and that it was a legal issue and nothing else. Everything should be put on hold, including player contracts. But that decision can't be made without fear of legal implications. At a base level the idea of Tranmere or Plymouth running to the law courts because one has benefited and one has been screwed is wretched. But it's the sort of thing that will happen.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Ah ok, gotcha.
I don't think it's possible to create two boxes, and write "humanitarian" on one, and "legal" on the other, and put every issue in one or the other though.
The suggestion that contracts should just be "put on hold", for instance, is obviously a legal issue, but the prospect of a person being forced into some sort of employment against their will with no way of contesting this is troubling on many levels other than those that are strictly legal.
I don't think it's possible to create two boxes, and write "humanitarian" on one, and "legal" on the other, and put every issue in one or the other though.
The suggestion that contracts should just be "put on hold", for instance, is obviously a legal issue, but the prospect of a person being forced into some sort of employment against their will with no way of contesting this is troubling on many levels other than those that are strictly legal.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Before the world changed my plan for yesterday would have involved being in Oldham. It’s a funny old game.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I haven't ventured to Griffin Park since 1994. We lost 7-0. Though we didn't travel expectantly having lost 5-1 at home earlier in the season.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Happy days. At a subsequent away game we lost 3-0 to Swansea and spent the 20 minutes we were kept in after the match singing "3-0, we only lost 3-0".