Fantasy Football (has been suspended!) Update
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (perhaps advisable right now) you will be aware that the Premier League have suspended all fixtures until (at least) April 4th. In essence this means that we will miss GW’s 30 & 31 and resume in GW32. Whether the 32 target actually happens is a different matter but for now that is what we are being told to work towards. We just wanted to make you aware of a few key things…
FPL have released the following on Twitter;
What does the #PL postponement mean for #FPL 👇
⬛ All GW30 and GW31 fixtures are postponed and the intention is for the PL to return for GW32 on 4 April, subject to medical advice
— Fantasy Premier League (@OfficialFPL) March 13, 2020
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To pick the bones out of that, essentially what it all means is;
- GW’s 30 & 31 will still happen, albeit in a ghost fashion.
- You’ll get zero points awarded (unless you somehow still take a hit!).
- Any moves you make (be that transfers, hits, chips) will still count and be there whenever (if) we resume.
- They’ve waffled on about the FPL Cup and how it all affects H2H leagues but who really cares!
We appreciate that the above is short ‘n sweet but that is all you need to know in a nutshell. We shall update this accordingly as and when we know more.
Please feel free to continue to chat amongst yourselves as usual and add any relevant info in the comments if you see / hear anything pertinent to the above.
On a separate note I’ve just had to message all the parents of my football team to tell them that tonight was the final training session for the foreseeable after Lancs FA requested we cancel all training and the season itself has now been suspended indefinitely. Genuinely had tears in my eyes doing so
Sorry to hear that Innit.
Likewise Init.
Such a shame.
No training
Difficult times. I hope everyone is holding up.
Pleased to see our government ditch their insane herd immunity wheeze (reality diverging from the model and someone finally noticed).
These are difficult times. For me the already were before the whole corona shit. More worried about my environment and how they are doing than I’m for myself. But that might actually be stupid since it’s not a regular flu.
No, it’s not.
The best advice I’ve heard so far is to imagine that you do have it and think about the steps you need to take to prevent others catching it.
This! Exactly the reason I cancelled my skiing trip this week to the North, the last thing we need is people who don’t have any symptoms and hence don’t know they carry the virus spreading it on by traveling to areas where, I hastily add, the health care is a lot more limited than in the big cities…
Euro 2020 postponed until next summer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51909518
Euro 2020 is off.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51909518
Hi guys, I hope everything is alright.
Glad that UK finally switched their strategy, this was getting odd, when the rest of the world was getting into lockdown.
On my side I woke up yesterday morning with the symptoms: fever, dry cough. I can’t be sure this is it, but I’m self isolating for some time now. I’ll be fine, a lot of Netflix so far
Please all be sensible and respect the government advice, this is serious. We all have to change our habits for some time.
Take care Frenchie, best wishes matey.
All the best Frenchie. You’re doing the correct thing. Better to be safe.
Get well soon mon ami.
All the best Frenchie. Doing the right thing.
Keep strong Frenchie.
Hey mate –
Sorry to hear that you have symptoms Frenchie. You’ll recover, but your advice is very sensible to us. Over here in your country of birth, a sudden (but necessary) change has overcome the whole country. We’re basically not allowed to go outside for anything unnecessary (in public places I mean). We have special govt forms to print off and sign to authorise going to work (if unavoidable), shopping (necessities only like groceries and pharmacy), to get some exercise (not in groups), or for childcare (eg. in the case of divorced couples sharing care of children). Hey – but it feels like we’re contributing to the greater good. And I’m lucky enough to be able to work from home exceptionally (although the server has been saturated the past few days, making things very slow – it was like working online in the 1990s almost! Could almost hear the beep of a modem!).
I’ve hardly had time to ‘goof off’, even at home! Darned virus!
I found Macron’s 2nd speech very good, although I feel slightly more (understatement!) leftwing than he is! For once he didn’t look like a little kid telling his parents that he’d done wee-wees in his pants, while addressing the nation. In fact, he did a good job in galvanising the country.
Netflix France is also getting a good bashing – I’m sure they will have increased subscriptions worldwide.
Well that’s all guys – I hope you are all well and please be sensible!
Can’t wait for the PL to start again, even in empty stadiums. I miss my contact with you all.
For anyone who is desperately cravingg live TV sport, the NRL (National Rugby League iin Australia) still has games going – from this weekend games will be played in empty grounds. I love it – but then again, I have very common tastes and it’s not to everyone’s taste. But it is an exciting sport! AND you can get to semi-legal streaming sites to look at matches from Europe (or on Sky UK, and BEIN in France). Give it a try! Maybe the methadone fix that you all need!!!
Bye for now people – I’ve rambled too much – even for a locked-down AJW!
Oops – sorry for the typos – I smashed this out on a very small screen and was unable to reread for editing purposes! See you round! Late happy St Patricks Day!
Great to hear from you AJW and thanks for a terrific post. Really interesting information.
There is a very weird ‘almost business as usual’ atmosphere here, though a lot of cultural places have closed their doors. The Tube is running and being used by a population advised to isolate whilst in many cases not having protected incomes. Pubs are open. Testing happens on Harley Street if you have about 400 spare quid handy. It is complete madness. And the virus is spreading, given the latest stats, though nobody really knows where. London and the home counties is an educated guess for the first true horror wave that’s about to hit us. We are apparently a couple of weeks behind Italy.
One can be charitable and imagine the delay in serious action is due to the conversations / emergency planning that must be taking place before we go into lock-down ourselves. One hears a distant echo of what it must have been like to serve under Field Marshal Douglas Haig. There’s a good article in Libération about the British response so far.
But pull together we must.
One of the first questions in that presser today was very pointed and cutting, and specifically about Londoners clearly ignoring the advice and cracking on. And the stats show it is spiking there rapidly as a result. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see enforced isolation in London before anywhere else.
That said there will also naturally be more tests carried out there and therefore more cases detected. They don’t tend to bother with us sheep farmers up North so much!
Putting aside briefly the non-testing in general, the lack of testing of critical front-line staff beggars belief.
I am in Spain and we have total lockdown. Police roadblocks stop people and if there are 2 in a car for no good reason 600 euro fine and turned round and sent back. Only allowed out for food or medicine and you need passport driving licence and State id.. Everyone seems to be following the rules and we stocked up with necessities last Thursday.
Ideal time for sunbathing but the weather has turned cool and cloudy.
Interesting words, Kruzcampo, thanks for posting that. At least the government there is taking the threat seriously, unsurprising given the horrendous number of deaths in Spain so far.
My only surprise today here was that our PM didn’t say ‘we’re going to knock it for six!’ with attendant arm movements.
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Sorry Kralin, returning to our now nightly chewing the fat over the state of the nation… I agree, the lack of testing of those is dire and it has further ramifications now in this school situation;
Both myself and the Mrs are classed in this ‘key workers’ group which now means our kids (and our!) celebrations have been cut short but the upshot is that we now have to send them into a potential Petri dish. They and all the other key workers kids are now together all day, in closer proximity and potentially all herded together from a small selection of close schools into one. And these are the kids of the people who are now the only ones, in theory, in close contact with the general public all day and in particular the NHS ones who are the most likely to contract it, for obvious reasons. Guinea pigs are springing to mind here.
And this is from someone who actually likes Boris and I do trust his CMO and the like but….
Well, congratulations of being classified as a key worker: your country needs you. I’ve heard there is a fair amount of confusion about who is and isn’t, particularly amongst Heads, but I daresay that will settle down. Hopefully you’ll be tested before the waters start lapping too close. And hopefully where you are is a little bit behind the horrors about to hit London.
I speak as someone who thinks our current PM is about as unsuitable a candidate could possibly be for this current crisis, but…best to keep politics out of it. I had a weird thought earlier that Teresa May, of whom you could safely say I was not the biggest fan, would be far more suitable for this moment – in that her authoritarian streak is probably what the country needs right now if it won’t come to its senses voluntarily. Horses for courses.
Keep well and thank god you and your wife are doing whatever it is you’re doing. I don’t think I’ve thought of football once today.
Hmm, yeah congrats… There’s a few ironies not lost on us here, trust me! The majority of my mates are all now working from home, hopefully safe and sound. If I told you how many people I had close contact with today you wouldn’t come within 2 mile of me right now, never mind 2 metres.
We both also have underlying health conditions which we could in theory trigger to leave but that’s a moral dilemma I’m not willing to get into. Hers is actually relatively serious whereas mine is a minorly mild asthma but as a fit, active and healthy person who is known to be either playing football or in the gym outside of work I’m not sure I could!
That said, the gym itself tonight was a relative bliss!
We could turn this into a diary, Anne Frank style, and have people look back in 100 years at the thoughts and feelings of two fantasy football friends who lived through the last great Plague
Yes…considering it was the beginning of last week that saw Leicester getting some managers all those points.
It seems like it’s from another world, and perhaps it was.
I keep resisting the urge to read into the Black Death.
*hopefully (lived through) :rofl:
Frenchie, check in if you can, let us know you are on the mend.
Coronavirus: Why English football in 2020-21 could look a lot like 1994-95
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/coronavirus-premier-league-efl-championship-liverpool-leeds-west-brom-a9404411.html