You just know at some point soon there will be a way to get it privately.
At that stage you'd expect big clubs to be all over it.
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You just know at some point soon there will be a way to get it privately.
At that stage you'd expect big clubs to be all over it.
They could all be out due to injuries irregardless of Covid.
We don’t know exactly what happened but if City were able to safely play a side even if it was the u23 squad then the game should of went ahead, otherwise Everton win via forfeit.
I would honestly not like to watch a PL match in which one of the teams had to call on the entire u23 squad hours before the game. I doubt whoever wrote the protocol thought of this as a possibilty.
They must have done otherwise it wouldn't be an option. If you had a lot of injuries you'd have to do the same.
When has a team had so many injuries it played an entire u23 team?
No training, no preparationg. On the day of the match you just call them from home in the last minute and send them to the pitch. Come on, it's a joke. The idea was always to use the odd player from the u23s if needed.
How the feck do Morecambe have an outbreak? Who even lives in Morecambe? Are they even in a tier?
Yes. We, like City, have a large squad.
Veiled attempt at getting your injured players more time to get back
It would certainly be quite a spectacle though. Van Gaal style, full on youth team in a match.
Fecking Chelsea and their lucky draws.
Hey! We got Atletico Madrid in Europe and you lot got Real Whoeverthefeck.
I can't decide if having a long break is a good or bad thing at the moment.
Long break now only means a more packed schedule later
It would be nice for us getting Ziyech back though so you're right, hard to decide!
The testing is there to pick up just what is happening at City quickly, and it's working, so no reason at all to just stop football on the back of testing doing exactly what it is there to do, if only every other industry had the luxury to be able to do the same.
Sky Sports 2 mins ago: "BREAKING: Premier League confirms 18 positive tests in latest round of COVID-19 testing for players and staff, more than twice as many as in previous round"
This is starting to feel a little bit like when we were playing Everton/Derby/LASK last season. Only a matter of time before they pause the season.
I agree. It won’t be for as long though. The problem is the euros...any pause makes fitting them in impossible.
Over 20K people are in hospital in England with covid now. More then at any point during the pandemic.
Should scrap them to be honest, or hold a mini tournament for the top 10 ranked nations in Europe. It'd probably be a better competition anyhow.
Think it'll take a hell of lot to halt the season honestly, they'll be desperate to keep it moving.
UEFA won't scrap it for financial reasons and they won't do a mini tournament because they'd be sued to death by the non-participating countries that qualified for the original tournament.
What they should do is make the tournament shorter and more compact. Scrap the pointless R16, go straight to the QFs. There's absolutely no point having 16 of 24 teams progress anyway, it makes the groups so dull. Cut down on all the ridiculous locations too, have the whole tournament in one country with 4-5 stadiums in close proximity.
Two groups every day for 9 days. Then all the QFs on days 11-12. SFs on day 15. Final on day 18. Saves almost 2.5 weeks of dragging on the tournament for no good reason.
Are they still doing the 12 cities thing? That's always been the most ridiculous thing about next euros. I still suspect it will be streamlined and just held in a couple of cities like CL and europa were end of last season.
Should just be held in London, assuming we've gotten the new wave under control and not expecting fans to attend. It's probably the only city in Europe with enough stadiums and infrastructure to accommodate all the teams.
Think the London, Rome and Munich groups will stay as they are and they'll just add the other three groups to play there rather than flying off to fecking Baku.
Hasn't Copenhagen got some games, that should be alright aswell.
I think it would literally take a player dropping dead during a match for that to happen... They are not going to stop.
If they're willing to let matches be postponed like yesterday, they may not have a choice.
Gone back to testing twice a week now. Hard to see clubs outside the PL being able to continue the season for much longer
Bit of a snowball effect going on here, can't see many clubs escaping without a few positive tests.
Should have incorporated a winter break somehow. Players need it after shortened pre-season + possible Euros anyway to avoid burnout, but quite simply every man and his dog knew 6+ months ago we would suffer another big peak in cases in the winter months, trying to play football through all this was always going to lead to a mass of positive results and potential postponements - that causes more issues with it being unforeseen than if they had just found a way to plan for a limited amount of games going ahead during winter in the first place.
I know it's difficult considering the season started late but feck me they haven't even tried, why on Earth are the League Cup and EFL Trophy for example being played this year?!
I know it's difficult considering the season started late but feck me they haven't even tried, why on Earth are the League Cup and EFL Trophy for example being played this year?!
Can’t wait for the FA to try and explain why these games are going ahead whilst City got a postponemen.
It’s in danger of becoming a complete farce this
Still, having the odd match postponed is far better for them than stopping the whole thing.
So why is this game going ahead and City of?
I think we're days away from a stop to all football. I can't see how testing once or twice per week is doing anything to stop the spread. You cab be tested on a Tuesday morning and contract the virus Tuesday afternoon and play on Wednesday. Someone can begin shedding the virus 24-48 hours after coming in contact with a positive case. The lines are to fine to think testing twice per week is safe unless the players/staff go into a bubble, which they are not.