SPFL Season declaration challenged legally (ongoing discussion)

[ian1964 10,724]

 

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[der Berliner 3,747]

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SPFL target June training return as Scottish football fires Nicola Sturgeon lockdown plea

The SFA and SPFL coronavirus task force have a detailed plan to return but will need a governmental go ahead.

 

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Scottish football is ready to plead with Holyrood to be allowed to pull its boots back on - as Nicola Sturgeon prepares to give the green light for the country to start playing sport again.

Record Sport understands the First Minister is expected to loosen some of the current government coronavirus restrictions tomorrow by mapping out plans for how and when the nation will be able to return safely to tennis courts and golf courses.

 

And the SFA and SPFL are set to follow up at the start of next week by handing over a detailed action plan of how they propose to bring the national sport back out of cold storage without putting lives at risk.

 

It’s understood they will ask for our clubs to be allowed to re-start training again in three weeks’ time on June 10 - win the aim of getting the new campaign started behind closed doors in early August after a six week long pre-season schedule.

 

And those proposals will be put in front of Sturgeon before she officially reviews the current lockdown measures on Thursday of next week.

Record Sport can also reveal that, 24 hours after that announcement, both SFA chief executive Ian Maxwell and his SPFL counterpart Neil Doncaster will hold a second round of re-start discussions with Scotland’s minister for public health, sport and wellbeing Joe FitzPatrick as well as national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch.

 

The governing bodies of rugby and horse racing will also attend next Friday’s video conference call as pressure mounts on the Scottish parliament to help sport in this country find a way through the potentially catastrophic financial consequences of the ongoing pandemic.

 

A source close to the discussions told Record Sport today: “The situation for professional football in this country becomes more serious with each passing week. That’s why these talks are so important.

 

“We understand there are less risks involved with allowing people back onto tennis courts and golf courses because social distancing is easier to apply.

“But football has worked out a plan of its own, the first step of which would see small training sessions initially perhaps involving no more than two players and one coach at any one time. And we will present a step by step guide to how we would then propose to get from that starting point all the way to the safe return of proper team training sessions.

“A great deal of work has gone into the re-start plan and it should be with the government in full by the start of next week. We want them to know that football will be ready as soon as they are.”

 

 

So three days after handing the Scum the title for an unfinished season, a season that could not be completed behind closed doors (due to financial strains et al) in what would essentially have amounted to a 4-week schedule with 2 games each, they make a 180° turn and want the new season started behind closed doors? You couldn't make it up.

 

BTW, the first OF, in their lair, would be up roundabout the end of August, early September. Bet365 should start a bet on whether that date will be put back to the furthest date of the first batch of matches, so the Scum get a full house ...

 

[ian1964 10,724]

Lifted from FF:

 

Denmark is set to reopen its premier football league in late May as COVID-19 restrictions ease in the country.

The Danish 3F Super League will start on May 28 with a postponed match, the organizers said in a statement on the website on Monday.

Called Superliga in Danish, it stated that the 2019-2020 season will get underway when Aarhus GF will take on Randers.

The games in Denmark will be held behind closed doors for health reasons and the regular season is expected to finish on July 26.

Following the regular round, the Superliga will conclude with the playoff final for UEFA Europa League campaign on July 29.

The Superliga was suspended in March to stem the spread of coronavirus.
 

 

 

The Polish league starts back next weekend and is live on Premier Sports.

Behind closed doors.

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[Gonzo79 15,294]

44 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

What a well-informed, coherent and substantive response from Bowie.  He must leave colleagues and associates in awe at business meetings.

[The Tin Man 80]

It’s like watching a softer spoken Gordon Sawyers. No wonder Lawell runs rings around them!

[CammyF 8,119]

In the style of Question Of Sport, what happens next? 

 

Let me have a guess and see how close I get ;

 

Hearts will submit their reconstruction request, which will include a 16 team top league (including Dundee), just like magic, the voting rules will change from 11-1 to say 8-4 something similar and hey pesto, everyone (except us) is happy. 

 

Wonder how close this scenario will be to what unfolds next week? 

[Scott7 6,014]

I’d be happy with a 16 team league.

[ian1964 10,724]

Edit: Removed because that image was giving me the boke. @der Berliner has posted the direct link below.