Everton (A) | Game Postponed

[Summerbuzz]

Outbreak in a London hotel we stayed at. Fuck all to do with Walker.

Even so, he took that same risk.

Can't pretend a hotel sounds like a good idea, either. They were always identified as massive risks for transmissions.

We're potentially talking millions and millions of quid lost here. COVID is gonna end careers, postpone matches, could easily end up costing us CL qualification.

This is a big, big expensive business. Where's the professionalism? Why rely on a hotel? Stick them somewhere safe. Without a bar or nightlife. Sort out a fucking isolated space.

Sorry. I honestly think everyone's attitude to this virus has been bang average. Taking unneccesary risks left right and centre. We have the resources and there should be no lack of leverage over the players. Have them live like fucking monks for a year and a half. They ought to be focused enough to manage quite easily it. Someone had to be managing the risk. Thinking clearly and assiduously how to avoid any fuck ups. I mean, risk management is already at the heart of the player contract. They're already forbidden to ride motorcycles and so on.

But nah. Life must go on, apparently. Everyone has the blinkers on and just pretends it'll all be ok. It's all pretty amateurish if you ask me. Embarrassing. Embarassing to be a Brit, a football fan, a westerner. Total abrogation of what we've learned in the last half a century. Like we're in a big brain fog and can't see the wood for the trees. You can manage almost anything like this. It just requires planning, attention to detail and professionalism. Mindfulness, awareness. A lot of small steps and measures.

Instead, what do we get? A continent stuck on autopilot, content on deceiving ourselves that this is the only way. Uncomfortable with change or any application of mindfulness. And now we're the bloody epitome of it.

 

[mosssideblue]

I said “IF they are considered essential workers [by the powers that be, who have decided that football should carry on]”....

I wasn’t making a personal qualification as to whether they are or are not.

Fair enough

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

BBC are suggesting that but I think it'll be highly unlikely we will never know for certain

If it's the new strain it would make it more likely to be the source, if the other cases from the hotel match.

 

[ninjamonkey]

No foden again? Pep out.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Can’t believe the reaction on social media, it depresses me the amount of dick heads there are in the world.

As a famous Jedi Master once said

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

 

[mike1923]

Obviously worried about the health of all concerned.

Part of me feels pretty unhappy with how this has been managed, dunno what the real story is but Walker and any others who broke quarantine should really have known better. Now look at us.

Still feel an awful lot of people are taking this disease lightly.


We still have very little firm understanding of the chances of persistent deblitation for otherwise healthy people. Or what the 'survivors' look like in 18 months time.

It is also possible that Walker breaching guidelines months ago is unrelated to the positive cases now...

 

[chaddblue]

No foden again? Pep out.

FFS!!!.... FFS????

 

[Bluemanc100]

Daniel Craig a scouser, fuckin ‘ell didn’t know that.

Maybe not an actual scouser as he was born in Chester but he's afflicted alright

 

[give it to gordon]

As an Everton fan, the postponement is the correct decision.

Yes I can understand the calls for forefiting the game as an Italian team and Leyton Orient had to do, but for those screaming you should play the game, they need to look as the precident that was set with Newcastle not long ago.

Plus I wouldnt want you coming to goodison and playing us if its rife within the club at the moment as im sure you wouldnt want us turning up to the Etihad if the situation was reversed.

Shutting the training ground and trying to contain it is the correct thing to do.

its hard to believe that Everton and liverpool are from the same City ! Everton fans seem so more senible ;)

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

Had us down for a draw, guess I sort of got it right

 

[TomDixie]

its hard to believe that Everton and liverpool are from the same City ! Everton fans seem so more senible ;)

Most of the other lot aren't from our City.

 

[Chi-town blues]

city vs fucking universe..
shocker!!

 

[Blue Til Death]

its hard to believe that Everton and liverpool are from the same City ! Everton fans seem so more senible ;)

They aren’t, they are from Dublin and Scandinavia, just like the Rags are from London ... All makes sense when you factor this in doesn’t it..

 

[BuryBlue1977]

People actually want us to forfeit a game because of the pandemic lol

Not specifically aimed at you but for the last time.....WE DIDN’T call the game off! The decision was taken by the PL to stop the spread of a deadly virus. If we were instructed to play, we would have!!

 

[oasisband909]

i’m

Maybe not an actual scouser as he was born in Chester but he's afflicted alright

formative years in the wirral, high school in liverpool. its all scouse as far as im concerned

 

[Mike Cledford]

Has anyone blamed Mahrez yet

Mahrez wouldn't pass anything.

 

[BuryBlue1977]

Herbert, the obese WhatsApp group slug, demonstrating once again just what an embittered, clueless cretin he is

Someone should tell that dopey cûnt that the rules state if a team refuses to play. We haven’t refused to play, we have provided medical information to the PL and they have postponed the game on medical advice

 

[give it to gordon]

Maybe not an actual scouser as he was born in Chester but he's afflicted alright

whats 007 said ??

 

[moggymoz]

Everton fan here (again).

I'm rather relieved we aren't playing.

Our lads get a chance to recover properly for West Ham on Friday (West Ham also have Southampton away tomorrow). We will also have James and Richarlison back.

Our rearranged match should also be when we have the likes of Digne and Allan back, so there is a possibility we will be back to full strength.

We also don't have Europe to contend with, so a midweek fixture later in the season shouldn't be an issue for us.

Are you fucking serious, we're in the middle of a pandemic and all you're arsed about is getting players back fit, in what is a a shambles of a season that should never have gone ahead...

 

[Mr Partridge]

This proves why some games/tournaments should have been scrapped altogether.

They went 3 months with no football then crammed in the end of last season and the start of this but they didn't cancel anything. Everyone is already behind schedule and vulnerable to this situation and now with a fixture pile up to look forward to. We are not the first and won't be the last.

For me they should have scrapped all international football for 12 months. Or at the very least the Nation's League, I mean how the hell is that still important?! Something has got to give at some stage.

The way things are going this will have a knock on effect for several years. All these games to fit in, very little time left to play them and Covid can still hit any club at any time, like it just has with us.

At least this period will provide some sort of break for our players I suppose, it's the only rest they will get until about 2023...