The Ligue 1 season is over as the prime minister of France, Edouard Philippe, banned all sporting events until September.
The order includes sporting events behind closed doors and follows a similar ban put in place until September by the Netherlands. That led to the Eredivise season being canceled and deemed null and void.
“Big sporting events will not be able to take place before September. The 2019-20 season, notably for football, will not be able to resume,” Philippe said.
So, the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 seasons have now been canceled and the French top-flight is the first of Europe’s top five leagues to call an end to the 2019-20 season.
It has not yet be decided if Paris Saint-Germain will be handed the French title or what will happen to teams in the European qualification and relegation spots, as the league is expected to meet in May to decide the final standings.
PSG are currently top of the 2019-20 Ligue 1 table with a 12-point lead, while Marseille and Rennes sit in the Champions League spots, while Lille, Reims and Nice make up the rest of the top six. Toulouse are rock bottom of the table but could avoid relegation, depending on how the league decides to end the season.
In Ligue 2 there is an almighty battle for promotion to the top-flight with the top five teams separated by just four points with Lorient, Lens, Ajaccio, Troyes and Clermont all in the hunt for promotion.
PSG and Lyon are still in the UEFA Champions League and at the moment UEFA intend to complete that competition in August. How that would be possible with France not allowing sporting events behind closed doors until September remains to be seen but it suggests that the latter stages of the UCL would have to take place in one location.
Football in France is done for 2019-20.
GENEVA (AP) The first trial in Switzerland’s five-year investigation of corruption in soccer ended Tuesday without a judgment, seemingly beaten by the coronavirus pandemic and an expiring statute of limitations.
The decision by the Swiss federal criminal court had become inevitable. The trial of four soccer officials related to the 2006 World Cup opened on March 9 but was then suspended because of limitations on the court during the coronavirus outbreak.
The suspension was extended last week, pushing the prosecution beyond an April 27 deadline to resolve the case.
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Criminal proceedings, including against German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer, were announced more than 3½ years ago but ultimately came to court too late. The court said in a statement it was circumstances and “not procedural errors” which caused the case to be closed.
Two German members of the 2006 World Cup organizing committee, Theo Zwanziger and Horst Schmidt, plus former FIFA secretary general Urs Linsi, were charged with fraud.
A third German official, Wolfgang Niersbach, was charged with being complicit in fraud in an alleged collective attempt to mislead a 2006 World Cup oversight panel in Germany.
Beckenbauer was not indicted for health reasons but was listed as a witness by video link to the court near Switzerland’s border with virus-hit northern Italy.
The case involved a 6.7 million euro ($7.6 million) payment 15 years ago that passed from Beckenbauer via a FIFA account to Qatari soccer powerbroker Mohamed bin Hammam.
Prosecutors acknowledged when announcing the indictment last August the true purpose of the money was unclear.
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Liverpool is yet to win a top-flight title in the Premier League era, but it would be absolutely astonishing to the Anfield faithful of 1990 that they’d wait three decades for their next.
That’s coming — and soon — but today we turn back our clocks to April 28, 1990. That’s when Liverpool clinched its sixth top-flight title in nine seasons and 18th all-time, beating Queens Park Rangers 2-1 in come back fashion.
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Liverpool entered the day with a four-point advantage on chasers Aston Villa, who opened the door with a 3-3 draw with Norwich City.
The Reds went down early, manager Kenny Dalglish watching his men concede a 14th-minute goal from none other than USMNT striker Roy Wegerle.
The South African-born South Florida Bull scored from close range in a taste of what Americans would see seven times in 41 caps between 1992-98.
But a pair of Liverpool legends dragged the Reds to all three points, with Ian Rush scoring in the 40th before John Barnes converted a penalty after halftime to put the Merseyside outfit on firm footing.
The Reds finished second the following year and have only managed a runners-up spot four other times prior to the start of this season.
Be sure to hit the 3-minute mark of the above video for the man in the stands burning a cigarette while holding a handheld radio to his hear to catch the latest from the Villa match. Worlds apart.
Burnley have had a fine second half of the 2019-20 season after a slow start as Sean Dyche’s men are back to their best, so why don’t we reveal a ranking of how they’ve performed?
Everyone loves a ranking.
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Below we give each Burnley player a grade, ranking and group them together based on their season(s) so far.
If a Burnley player is listed in this ranking it is because they’ve played in more than five games in all competitions.
A-GRADE
Nick Pope: What a season for Pope. With Tom Heaton sold and Joe Hart struggling, Pope is the undisputed number one and he is pushing Jordan Pickford all the way to become England’s first-choice goalkeeper. In a word, Pope is… solid.
Chris Wood: A monster up top, Wood has scored 11 goals in the Premier League and his partnership with Ashley Barnes batters opposition defenses. The New Zealand striker is a real handful and is becoming more clinical. When Barnes was out injured he really stood tall to lead the line impressively.
Dwight McNeil: Could be the breakout star in the Premier League. McNeil, still just 22 years old, is a product of Burnley’s academy and the slight winger has plenty of pace, vision and end product to become a Premier League star. Will the Clarets be able to hold onto him for much longer? He creates chances and can whip in wonderful crosses, which is perfectly suited to how Burnley play.
James Tarkowski: Alongside Ben Mee he is so reliable. Will Tarkowski and Mee win style points for the way they play? Nope. Is it effective? Hell yeah. A regular in the England setup, Tarkowski is severely underrated.
Ashley Barnes
Ashley Westwood
Ben Mee
B-GRADE
Jay Rodriguez: The local lad has been very good at times during his return to his beloved Burnley. Cracking goals against Man United and Chelsea are the standout moments but some times J-Rod doesn’t quite fit Burnley’s system. He works his socks off and has played out wide a lot. When he plays centrally off Wood or Barnes he is very dangerous. Has never recovered from his serious knee injury in 2014 but he’s adapted his game.
Erik Pieters: A really savvy pick up last summer and the Dutchman had a very good start to the season at left back before injury struck. Some great crosses, which again plays to Burnley’s strength. Not much between him and Charlie Taylor.
Matt Lowton: Probably just wins the battle with Phil Bardsley at right back and another solid, reliable defender.
Charlie Taylor
Jack Cork
C-GRADE
Matej Vydra: He had to wait a long time for a run of games but boy has he taken it. With Barnes and Wood out injured, Vydra scored a stunner to beat Southampton, then scored against Bournemouth too just before play was suspended. A fox in the box who has scored so many goals in the Championship, the Czech striker kept working hard and got his just rewards.
Jeff Hendrick: Has popped up with a few goals but less influential than previous seasons. The Republic of Ireland midfielder works hard and has quality on the ball but a bit of an up and down season.
Phil Bardsley
Charlie Taylor
Aaron Lennon
Johann Berg Gudmundsson (season impacted by injuries)
D-GRADE
Joe Hart: Remember him? The former Man City star has fallen way down the pecking order for club and country as a string of poor performances in 2018-19 has put a mark against his name after less than stellar loan spells at Torino and West Ham before that. Hart, 33, is now well and truly second-choice at Burnley and he could struggle to land at another Premier League club.
Robbie Brady
Paris Saint-Germain owner Nasser Al-Khelaifi was quick to respond after the French government outlawed football in France until September.
Al-Khelaifi said he respects the government’s decision and that he’ll bring PSG’s home matches outside of France when the UEFA Champions League restarts this summer.
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Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 are done for the season after the French government joined the Netherlands in canceling live sporting events for most of the summer.
PSG had already qualified for the quarterfinals by dismissing Borussia Dortmund. Here’s Al-Khelaifi:
“We respect the French government’s decision. In agreement with UEFA, we intend to participate in the final rounds of this season’s Champions’ League at the time and place at which it will be organised. If it is not possible to play in France, we will play our matches abroad with the assurance that we will place our players and all our staff in the best possible health conditions.”
PSG will have already planned for the possibility of playing all UCL matches at a neutral site, so this doesn’t change a ton.
What’s interesting, even comical, is how quickly PSG reacted to the news. Ligue 1 had long been relegated to a subplot with a 12-point table lead and a match-in-hand on second-place Marseille.
A cynic would say PSG won’t care much about domestic honors until they’ve laid claim to their European honors. Today did little to dissuade those in that mind frame.
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