COVID Watch

[yeseye]

So now I have to spend the evening with Mrsery ffs!

 

[simon29040]

yes i agree the season should be cancelled now we cannot risk lives for football

 

[cjn]

Our biggest problem is that the current 9 cases could be 20 by Wednesday.

The Miami Marlins had a big outbreak in baseball and they went from 1 player to 4 to 13 to 20 over the course of a week.

If that happens to us our season is over.

This is something we should probably prepare for. The early speculation was that Cancelo and Ederson had tests come back positive this time around, which with Jesus would suggest it's spread amongst our Portuguese-speaking cohort. Add in one or two or two more and our title hopes are realistically over just given the number of fixtures coming up.

 

[DMA's]

It really isn't as simple as just worrying about rearranging fixtures though is it? Our players are real people who could actually get seriously ill from this virus, how would people feel if someone like Torres (as a random example) develops complications and can never play a game again as his lungs end up knackered? Career over, we shouldn't be playing football during a pandemic, it is and always has been fucking ridiculous, this season going ahead coupled with the joke of the latter stages of last season are the main reason I won't be renewing, love of the game has totally gone for me.

The easiest way around that is let players opt out if they do not feel comfortable playing the season. in the NFL there is a few players who didn’t participate in the season due health concerns etc. If we didn’t play the games I highly doubt our squad made up of young rich men (with let’s face it very low iq) would be spending their time locked indoors.

 

[teddykgb]

No problem with the club taking whatever actions necessary to protect players. This season, like the last, isn’t meaningful to me. Forfeits and points deductions are preferable to me than rushing players back and having it spread more

 

[Marvin]

This now makes it difficult for City to sustain a title challenge.

 

[Mike N]

This is probably the start of a lot of issues for teams. This isn’t football at the moment and is only being played for business reasons. Wouldn’t give a monkey’s if it was cancelled soon.

 

[Cityinmud]

 

[DMA's]

This is something we should probably prepare for. The early speculation was that Cancelo and Ederson had tests come back positive this time around, which with Jesus would suggest it's spread amongst our Portuguese-speaking cohort. Add in one or two or two more and our title hopes are realistically over just given the number of fixtures coming up.

Miami Marlins also made it to the playoffs. We just need to control the spread and once we know who is negative etc we can start working again

 

[ninjamonkey]

At least we get to find out who's been to Kyle walkers sex party this christmas