EFL to suspend all fixtures

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  1. DSLRed

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    Transfer windows are administrative and within the boundaries of the authorities to change. Contracts are legal instruments - they are standard employment contracts that state a fixed term of employment. They can't be ignored because the FA wants to. It is only convention that they are all set up to end on the same date to tie in with the domestic season, but having been set up to end on that date, that's it - they end on that date.
     
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    There would still be court cases. Leeds on the verge of 180m windfall for promotion to the prem only to be told sorry with 9 games left its null and void. Same with Liverpool, 1st title in 30 years there will be huge financial ramifications
     
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    Don’t see how that could happen..Club finishing fifth in th Championship would sue.
     
    bright red, Mar 13, 2020
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    Then there's the clubs in the bottom three that will rightly or wrongly claim sanctuary.
     
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    Yes, you have to draw the line somewhere. Authorities should be thinking the following;
    1) What's the shortest window that remaining fixtures can be played in? (Three weeks? Four weeks? Cram into two?!)
    2) How long preparation time needed before restarting the season?
    3) What's the latest next season can start?
    4) What's the least amount of pre-season needed for next year, given the current suspension?

    Answering all of those will give you a deadline of when play has to resume to allow the season to finish. If that can't happen, there might be a Duckworth Lewis style formula designed to forecast how the season would've finished.
     
    leythtyke, Mar 13, 2020
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    I'd be for this because Duckworth Lewis system is one of the bentist around and more often than not favours the team least likely to win. This season it would be us.
     
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    Could go one better, and see what cricket did pre DL. Make Liverpool need 20 runs to win off one ball to win the league.
     
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    Jack Duckworth and Leona Lewis? What would they know about it?
     
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    Shades of the 92 Cricket World Cup. South Africa needed 25 off 1 ball to beat England when they were cruising to victory before the weather intervened.
     
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    Duckworth Lewis. Sort of based on previous form, or the Pools Panel? Or it could be the Lineker-Lawrenson method in which case we'd be fooked.
     
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    All the coaches should get a special networked version of football manager and run the rest of the season through that. Might work in our favour, Patrick the ghost is a virtual player for us already.
     
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    Contracts can have short extensions. It can be worked out, and isn't something that alone would warrant declaring a season null and void after the majority of it has already been played.
     
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    I might take up a subscription for NOW TV if this is true? Bring back Indoor League, but with hazmat suits.
     
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    What if you are a player that has been approached by another club with a much better contract to sign on July 1st. Do you have to spend a few weeks/months on your old contract until the season ends? What happens if you get injured in a game after your contract would have ended?
     
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    Yes they can change transfer windows, but FA etc have no legislative powers over contracts.
     
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    Yes. In 1914, Barnsley finished 3rd and Arsenal were 6th and moving from South to North London. They decided to extend Division One, and Arsenal were voted up in place for us or Spurs (who were in the last relegation place) and our chairman stormed out of the meeting. It was admitted much later that the Arsenal chairman had bribed other chairmen to vote for them and they have never been relegated - making them the only team to play in the top flight without being promoted to or relegated from it.
     
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    I dont think there would to be honest.
    I don’t believe any court in the land would find in favour of a football clubs finances over a National health and safety crisis.
     
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    You could have weekly rolling contracts, trial contracts, EFL could allow a period where somebody is contracted to two clubs, with players playing for whoever they were contracted to from Feb 1st.

    These are all things that can be figured out if the authorities want to complete the season.
     
    leythtyke, Mar 13, 2020
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    50 years we can top that with a 100 easy - which team has a valid gripe involving the first world war and a london club
     
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    I like to think that there's a parallel universe out there where we were voted into the top flight in 1914 and are still there now. One that doesn't have coronaviruses too.
     
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