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[LesBleuMiserable]

Nah he is considering a lease for a patisserie in wee Paris, “Ble Sucre”!
Damn the the French pastries are good!

 

[Keeper!]

Anybody suspicious of Sergio ?? PSG in the market for him and then not available ??

Au revoir Raggy

 

[Centurions]

25 posts in 13 years. A momentous 13 years in our history. No; I'm not suspicious of him in the slightest.

Sergio or @barty66 ?

 

[kippaxwarrior]

All Scottish football below champion level suspended for 4 weeks.

Sign of things to come?

 

[CC1]

Anybody suspicious of Sergio ?? PSG in the market for him and then not available ??

wishful thinking hahahahaha

 

[Xhavenjoe]

I see Spurs are now playing Fulham midweek instead of Villa. Villa match now on Saturday.
Parker not too happy as he thought Fulham had a week off and he would have played a different team in the F A cup.
Looks like the premier league are going to force this season through.

 

[jimharri]

Sergio or @barty66 ?

Have an informed guess.

 

[BobbyBoy]

I see Spurs are now playing Fulham midweek instead of Villa. Villa match now on Saturday.
Parker not too happy as he thought Fulham had a week off and he would have played a different team in the F A cup.
Looks like the premier league are going to force this season through.

Very slippery slope they're on here. Villa proved they have 14 fit players on Friday, are the rules just makey uppie as we go along? Won't be popular here but the PL should have made City's 18/23s play Everton. If nothing else it would show they are taking it serious and help concentrate the minds of clubs who's players are lax in following rules. Half the league must have had players breaking rules at this stage and the other half just haven't been caught.

The horse has bolted at this stage, you can't allow Newcastle, City, Fulham and Villa call off games and then force another club to field kids in March or April which may well be the case when calendar is full.

Martin Samuel sums it up well here.

MARTIN SAMUEL: Footballers' lockdown rule-breaking must be stopped

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: It's idiocy to post photos and place illegal events in the public domain. Everyone involved must have known what they were doing was wrong.

www.google.com

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

Benjamin Mendy accused of second coronavirus lockdown breach

Benjamin Mendy flouted coronavirus rules in the summer by flying over a girl from Greece to stay in his home, according to reports. It is the second time that

www.90min.com

I hope his chef has brought his boots. I'd play him (or even her) in place of Mendy.

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Very slippery slope they're on here. Villa proved they have 14 fit players on Friday, are the rules just makey uppie as we go along? Won't be popular here but the PL should have made City's 18/23s play Everton. If nothing else it would show they are taking it serious and help concentrate the minds of clubs who's players are lax in following rules. Half the league must have had players breaking rules at this stage and the other half just haven't been caught.

The horse has bolted at this stage, you can't allow Newcastle, City, Fulham and Villa call off games and then force another club to field kids in March or April which may well be the case when calendar is full.

Martin Samuel sums it up well here.

MARTIN SAMUEL: Footballers' lockdown rule-breaking must be stopped

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: It's idiocy to post photos and place illegal events in the public domain. Everyone involved must have known what they were doing was wrong.

www.google.com

Looks like you really don’t understand the topic Bobby because, as has been widely discussed on here and elsewhere, the Everton v City game wasn’t actually postponed due to lack of available players.

It had to be postponed because there had been positive results in a scenario where positive results require that all players (even those testing negative but who have been in the company of those testing positive) are retested.
Test results take 24 hours and there wasn’t time enough to get the second test results because the scheduling of games by the authorities didn’t allow enough time for their own own protocols to be met.
City were keen to play Everton at that point, because Everton had a number of key players missing and were an easy touch at that time.
It was the lack of sufficient time between fixtures, combined with the protocols those those who schedule the fixtures had put in place, that prevented the game from taking place.