Football in the UK and Ireland season 2019/20

I'm a little confused as to why? They aren't paying to keep stadiums open, and it's not like they were making much money on attendance or TV deals, so I can't see where much revenue is being lost unless sponsorship deals have been cancelled.

I mean, the other possibility is the brother teams are the ones losing a ton of revenue, and the sister teams are being shuttered as collateral. Which is dumb, but sadly wouldn't be at all surprising.

 

Was she offsides? Yeah just barely. Ball was going the other way while she was moving back and started going back while looking onside. Impressive pace.

 

Probably they don't like paying players to sit around.

 

I don't know about specifics, but if clubs are still paying their female players, which is the fair thing to do in my opinion, while not getting any revenue from match ticket sales, that is losing revenue. Maybe not much on an absolute scale, but that is something. I think most WSL sides will be fine; the situation for a lot of Women's Championship and lower clubs is likely a bit unclear.

 

Impressive pace? She had plenty of time to get solidly back onside but chose to barely jog back and lucked out. It's not barely in my opinion. Barely is White vs the US in the WWC; Lloyd is pretty clear cut offside to me here, and it would have been a straightforward no goal decision with VAR.

 

Well my point was that they're losing money anyway, and the attendance factor is small compared to other club budget items. Think of it this way: many NWSL clubs are losing money even with attendance averages north of 5k, and aside from the largest WSL clubs, everyone in England is drawing under 1k on average. It's highly likely that the salary spending far outstrips attendance revenue for all clubs in both levels, even looking at just players - including coaching and office staff would make the difference even bigger. As such, it's not going to make a noticeable percentage difference whether the attendance is "normal" (under 1k) or 0. Yes, it's something, but if you're an owner who's okay losing $800k per year but "not okay" with losing $850k per year, you're full of sh!t.

Also, you may be losing ticket revenue, but you're also not paying to rent fields and/or open stadiums. If anything, not playing is probably *making* money overall, not a net loss.

 

As the commentator said; the score could of easily been 4-0, 5-0. With the postponement of the Olympics, this would be a good time to think about firing Neville(the Germans did it after the Stefi Jones SBC debacle). But then, will they ever get a top quality coach? Neville’s only prior experience was defensive coordinator for the Valencia men’s club, which under his leadership, ended up in last place, lol(or at least that’s the story given)

 

I could maybe understand no support from the FA for women's struggling clubs, but only if there won't be any support for the men's struggling clubs either. Is that the way they're going to manage that? No support for any club?

Anyway, since women's movement had to fight for so long to obtain some recognition, I wouldn't object to giving it some support and letting the rich men's clubs do without instead.

 

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On the bright side

...Ebony Salmon

"Bristol City Women may be struggling at the wrong end of the WSL, but they have on their hands one of English football’s brightest young players. Ebony Salmon is a very interesting player to watch, because she can play literally everywhere in attack."

Ebony Salmon at Bristol City Women 2019/2020 – scout report
https://totalfootballanalysis.com/p...9-2020-scout-report-tactical-analysis-tactics (Archive)

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52328567

 

Was hoping to see Chelsea finish to the top. Also they were making a documentary following Chelsea through the season. With them winning it would have been epic.

 

Women should play early before the men gets back to action. The viewers are starving for some new action. Good time for some exposure.

 

The problem is if they are recording or streaming, it could be sticking to 1 camera.

 

I would like to see Arsenal & Chelsea finish top two over Man City(who’s style & players reminds me too much of the lackluster English NT), Catlyn Foord has just joined Arsenal & plus hoping that Kim Little is back as well, make them a more exciting team than MC.
Got to say a little disappointed on how Chelsea players fared last month for their respective NT’s; Beth England failed to impress at SBC, Sam Kerr’s Matildas only managed a 2-1 win over Vietnam(their way lower ranked than even Thailand), the couple of Swedes lost two straight games at the Algarve Cup, the 3 Norwegians got clobbered, 4-0 by the German B team(a makeshift squad that never played together before as an unit)and do on down the list.

 

Man City does look like England NT. Wouldn't be surprised its all based on possession style. Chelsea plays fast and counterattack quickly and lots of crossovers.

Wasn't sure if I blame Beth on her performance. She had that one chance against U.S. in SBC but missed it. Also she barely played in that game. Came in, in the 77th min. Not much to go on. Don't remember if they put Beth and Ellen White together as duo attackers against Japan and Spain. It would help each other.

Also was surprised the Aussies barely beat Vietnam which as you said is supposedly worse than Thailand.

 

here's a home video by Lisa Evans with gf, Vivianne Miedema in tow on how they keep active during the lockdown.


with so many of the players going back to their own hometowns, makes you wonder how teanm practise their going to get before they restart the season?

 

Wouldn't be surprise to see a pitch like less than a hundred yards from their home. Whether small or big.

 

Nearly forgot about the top 2 teams go to CL. Arsenal definitely wants to get there if they are still in the race for number 2 while other 2 have to lose.

Bottom is important especially Liverpool which needs to win all theirs while the others have to lose to stay. Be embarrassing for Liverpool to be relegated.