The Football News Thread 2020/21

[Kenny]

KF Drita v Linfield was called off due to 2 Drita players testing positive for Covid.

Linfield have been awarded a 3-0 win. Seems harsh

 

[darlowolf64]

KF Drita v Linfield was called off due to 2 Drita players testing positive for Covid.

Linfield have been awarded a 3-0 win. Seems harsh

I’m sure UEFA made it clear that this would happen if games were postponed

 

[Kenny]

Still harsh. Hardly their fault unless their players did an Aberdeen/Celtic

 

[Derby Wolf]

Spurs fresh from been shamed into paying their furloughed staff themselves Spurs charge Haringey council £33000 for using the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a food bank.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/n...m=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=bfa

 

[Stan Hullis]

I do feel that is a bit misleading.

Why should a football club pick up third party cleaning and security costs requested by the council when they are already letting them use their space gratis?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Derby have taken out a loan secured against Pride Park. But they don't own it, they sold it to Mel Morris. Murky.

 

[YoungWolf]

Isn't that sale of the ground to Morris (or the valuation of it anyway) still be investigated?

 

[Carrotdude]

I do feel that is a bit misleading.

Why should a football club pick up third party cleaning and security costs requested by the council when they are already letting them use their space gratis?

Probably because it’s less than a third of Harry Kane’s weekly wage, literally means nothing to them so why invite the bad publicity (again).

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Derby have taken out a loan secured against Pride Park. But they don't own it, they sold it to Mel Morris. Murky.

I can’t see the EFL being too impressed with that.

 

[Kenny]

Lee Cattermole has retired. I believe the FA will now retire the yellow card in his honour

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Winning the League Cup only results in qualification for the Europa Conference Cup from next season, and winning the Conference Cup gets qualification for the group stages of the Europa league.

 

[darlowolf64]

Winning the League Cup only results in qualification for the Europa Conference Cup from next season, and winning the Conference Cup gets qualification for the group stages of the Europa league.

The target is the FA Cup then...

 

[Kenny]

Fuck that. Europa Conference and beat Pyunik in the Final to claim our first silverware in Europe. Miss out on the Europa the following season as we finished 3rd in the League. Easy

 

[darlowolf64]

Fuck that. Europa Conference and beat Pyunik in the Final to claim our first silverware in Europe. Miss out on the Europa the following season as we finished 3rd in the League. Easy

When you put it like that...

 

[Lycan]

How is this Europa Conference (terrible name) going to work then? It could be quite a good idea if done well but I have no faith in UEFA at all.

 

[BillyDee]

"Europa Conference" sounds really tin pot...

 

[Kenny]

"The 32 group stage entrants will be decided as follows:
• Seventeen teams from the UEFA Europa Conference League main path.
• Five teams from the UEFA Europa Conference League champions path.
• Ten teams eliminated in the UEFA Europa League play-offs.
The full access list will be communicated in due course.

How will it work?

There will be eight groups of four teams, followed by knockout round play-offs, the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.
The eight group winners automatically go through to the last 16. Additional knockout round play-offs will then be played before the round of 16 between the eight group runners-up and the third-ranked teams of the UEFA Europa League groups.
The new competition will feature 141 matches over 15 match weeks, exactly like the new-look UEFA Europa League.

What do the winners get?

The winner of the new competition will be entitled to enter the following season's UEFA Europa League group stage.

Why is it being introduced?

The new structure for UEFA club competitions will ensure that at least 34 UEFA national associations are represented in the group stage of one or more competitions.
There will be a minimum of 14 domestic champions in the UEFA Champions League group stage, between eight and 11 domestic champions in the UEFA Europa League group stage, and between nine and 12 domestic champions in the UEFA Europa Conference League group stage. All member associations will have access to all three club competitions, and all associations' quotas will remain unchanged."

 

[Kenny]

"Europa Conference" sounds really tin pot...

Working Title of Europa League 2, so tin pot has been their target.

Seems it is all about trying to give smaller teams a chance to play more than 1 round of Euro games and then the medium sixed teams a decent shout at winning a Euro title

 

[Tony Towner]

Presumably in what is probably a more likely scenario that would now apply to the team finishing 7th if the Top 6 win both Cups ie us this season just gone

 

[Lycan]

It sounds great for teams like Crusaders & Pyunik Yerevan. For clubs like us we'd probably only treat it seriously if we made the later stages.