Arsenal (h) - MATCH POSTPONED (tweets on page 16)

[mosssideblue]

Sky sports Just announced its been called off

Not very observant are we

 

[Blue Smarties]

Sky sports Just announced its been called off

Sky Sports must be six hours behind.

 

[allan harper]

Bizarre, isnt, it? How is that game going ahead, I don't know.

On the other side, we fucked it up against Rags, guess Liverpool will just come across the line to mathematically secure the league, before it is stopped.

At least they don't get to a 100+ points...

 

[bellsouth]

This is why we need faster tests and results. If the players/staff he came into contact with could be tested and shown negative then it could have gone ahead - more tests and faster results is the key to less chaos surely?

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Seems like the most sensible and workable option.

It isn't an option at all because the situation will continue to worsen for at least 18 months.
This is a pandemic of a new strain of virus and it kills anywhere between 1 and 8% of those affected. It will become endemic in due course and be managed via vaccinations in the same manner that winter flu is now, with annually updated versions of the vaccinations to meet the changing nature of the virus as it mutates.
The initial vaccinations will take more than a year to develop because, as with all such medications, extensive trials need to be conducted before they can be released for public use.
In the interim, if countries don't take extreme measures to curb the acceleration of cases then the ability of medical services to deal with it will become overwhelmed and we'll have so many deaths that mass graves will be in use.
If it kills 1% of the UK population, which isn't beyond reasonable expectation, then that's 660,000 people dead. A disaster scenario (say 80% of our population affected and a 5% death rate due to no medical capacity to treat) would be circa 2.6 million dead.
This is a bad situation that will get worse before we get to a point where it's manageable. It'll change the way we interact and travel, not just for decades but forever.

 

[BosnianBlue]

Coronavirus crisis clobbers the FA with insurance shortfall to cost £3M PER GAME if they are cancelled or staged behind closed doors

 

[Eric Wirral]

Yet the Olympiakos v Wolves game still goes ahead, albeit behind closed doors!

And although the mounting Coronavirus cases in Spain are in the Madrid area and all Spanish games are to now be played behind closed doors, 3000 Athletico fans are arriving in Liverpool today (no doubt some will travel via Manchester)

 

[Cotswold Knight]

I think this season should be null and void
Just to see the Scousers faces

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Least we can all watch Liverpool in their quest to suck the ball into the net with their roar now! Every cloud eh....

 

[Blue Smarties]

Will be interesting to know who made the decision to pull the game, i dont believe it was led by the government so was it the FA or the individual clubs?

interesting times ahead.

I’d say it was Arsenal if they’re missing some key players.