COVID Watch

I probably shouldn't be, but I'm genuinely surprised by how this has escalated. The amount of bad faith journalism around these days is totally depressing.

Writers making arguments up and stirring up bad feeling in the full knowledge that what they're saying makes little sense. It's wildly irresponsible.

They know full well it would have been impossible to go ahead with this season and maintain any integrity in the competition if we were going to be docking points from teams when they suffer the inevitable outbreak. We couldn't have started a season where teams could potentially be relegated putting their employees health first and missing games during a highly infectious pandemic.

They also know full well that they weren't making these arguments a couple of weeks ago when Newcastle were struggling and they also know that two of Newcastle's players have been seriously affected by it. It's all so cynical.

It would be completely remiss of any organisation in our situation to gather and travel without putting more people at risk. And it would have been remiss of Everton to expose their players to our squad who probably have further cases which aren't showing up on tests yet.

For Everton to be playing the victim like this is not only disappointing, it's disingenuous as there's no doubt that a postponement at this point, given their injury situation, benefits them more than it does us.

Would have been refreshing for journalists to report the facts sensibly but instead we're just seeing the usual baiting.
 
Mon Autre said:
I probably shouldn't be, but I'm genuinely surprised by how this has escalated. The amount of bad faith journalism around these days is totally depressing.

Writers making arguments up and stirring up bad feeling in the full knowledge that what they're saying makes little sense. It's wildly irresponsible.

They know full well it would have been impossible to go ahead with this season and maintain any integrity in the competition if we were going to be docking points from teams when they suffer the inevitable outbreak. We couldn't have started a season where teams could potentially be relegated putting their employees health first and missing games during a highly infectious pandemic.

They also know full well that they weren't making these arguments a couple of weeks ago when Newcastle were struggling and they also know that two of Newcastle's players have been seriously affected by it. It's all so cynical.

It would be completely remiss of any organisation in our situation to gather and travel without putting more people at risk. And it would have been remiss of Everton to expose their players to our squad who probably have further cases which aren't showing up on tests yet.

For Everton to be playing the victim like this is not only disappointing, it's disingenuous as there's no doubt that a postponement at this point, given their injury situation, benefits them more than it does us.

Would have been refreshing for journalists to report the facts sensibly but instead we're just seeing the usual baiting.
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Everton's statement was poor and surprising. They should be roundly condemned. We certainly would have been had we adopted such a self-interested stance.

I hope the players and their families are OK and that the infection has been limited.
 
Marvin said:
Everton's statement was poor and surprising. They should be roundly condemned. We certainly would have been had we adopted such a self-interested stance.

I hope the players and their families are OK and that the infection has been limited.
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And staff, why do people keep forgetting the staff? I'd guestimate we take at least as many staff as players to away games, coach drivers, security et al plus the coaching staff.
 
Centurions said:
One of my nieces kids (11 years old) is getting transferred from the local hospital to Manchester Children's Hospital due to serious complications from a post Covid infection, nobody knew she'd had it in the first place. Anyone who thinks football is more important can go fuck themselves.
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My best wishes to both families and fuck Gary Neville, Danny Mills and the usual suspects.
As one blue said, its amazing how all the self-appointed media and Twitter legal and accounting experts, having failed miserably in those fields while trying to hamstring City, have now all become epidemiologists
 
Mon Autre said:
I probably shouldn't be, but I'm genuinely surprised by how this has escalated. The amount of bad faith journalism around these days is totally depressing.

Writers making arguments up and stirring up bad feeling in the full knowledge that what they're saying makes little sense. It's wildly irresponsible.

They know full well it would have been impossible to go ahead with this season and maintain any integrity in the competition if we were going to be docking points from teams when they suffer the inevitable outbreak. We couldn't have started a season where teams could potentially be relegated putting their employees health first and missing games during a highly infectious pandemic.

They also know full well that they weren't making these arguments a couple of weeks ago when Newcastle were struggling and they also know that two of Newcastle's players have been seriously affected by it. It's all so cynical.

It would be completely remiss of any organisation in our situation to gather and travel without putting more people at risk. And it would have been remiss of Everton to expose their players to our squad who probably have further cases which aren't showing up on tests yet.

For Everton to be playing the victim like this is not only disappointing, it's disingenuous as there's no doubt that a postponement at this point, given their injury situation, benefits them more than it does us.

Would have been refreshing for journalists to report the facts sensibly but instead we're just seeing the usual baiting.
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I had a look at an Everton fan site and, apart from a few idiots, most said that this benefitted Everton and could well fuck up our own season. So their fans are really not buying the press narrative.
Ps. Oops missed out the "not"
 
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Football is a contact sport, the virus can be transmitted by contact.

Just assume that your local supermarket had an outbreak and over the course of 3 days 5 of the staff tested positive while the rest of the staff showed negative. You know that people still working in the store have been in close contact with the people who have tested positive. Knowing this how confident would you be to go into that supermarket and hug each of the remaining staff members?

There is no way this match should have gone ahead and the decision to cancel it was common sense.
 
I see the EFL have threatened Rotherham with a potential points deduction if a 3rd game is postponed, despite them following the isolating advice carefully, one of their players has had symptoms on the last day of isolation and is awaiting test results.
 
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