by Sutekh »
13 Mar 2020 23:25
SCIAG Sutekh windermereROYAL
No easy way around this is there and some very difficult decisions to be made, May/June could well be converted into June/July, add the three month normal summer break and we are talking October for the next season. , that just impossible with `pre-seson preperation and trying to get all fixtures in before May 2021, give us a clue how to get out of tis unprecendended shitfest?
This. I would expect that the league seasons around Europe would resume mid May and finish end of June.
Euros could then be postponed until next summer.
Maybe season 20/21 to begin in September
Perhaps we might see no replays in FA Cup games next season and extra games like the Super Cup and World Club Championship suspended. Perhaps also the Nations League could be suspended to reduce the number of international breaks so as league seasons can finish by mid May and all should then be on target for the Euros.
Just have to wait and see though - plenty of discussion to be had on what might or might not be done, might even find everything back in April after all
When is the Confederations Cup being played?
Typically it is the summer before a World Cup which would make delaying the Euros farcical as several of the best teams would have to withdraw. But with the existing Qatar farce, it might be being played in the winter. In which case does the summer contract to create a winter break or will we have an ACoN/Asia Cup situation where clubs have to put up with losing their players?
My idle speculation is that the Euros either go ahead more or less as planned, or they are cancelled outright.
What exactly was the point of the Confederations Cup? There’s a World Cup so why on earth would you waste time with a tournament comprising confederation champions, you’d either have one or the other, not both.
Not that that question really matters now anyway as didn’t FIFA abolish the Confederations Cup tournament last year owing to the increased numbers in the World Cup finals?
However I believe there are plans to start a Club World Cup held over the summer months at some point in the future.
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