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As in normal regular life a crisis can sometimes bring out the worst in people (maybe it’s a true reflection of who they really are) and just like the toilet roll hoarders & criminals taking advantage of this pandemic, the likes of Neville will seek to gain from it in the football world. Football players get a bad press in this country, but they are being churned out for entertainment, forget about what they are being paid, they are being forced into travelling from tier 1-4 in some cases, and in our case straight into the path of a new strain, when Denmark burnt a 100 million mink we closed the door on em, in this country we just drop them into ground zero, I’m not advocating footballers get the vaccine before all those that need it more, but if I’m a player I’d be asking some serious questions of the football authorities
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Neville is more concerned about us being kicked out of the League Cup rather than than the welfare of players and staff should tell you everything about him. Incredible that he part owns a League club.

Cretin of a man
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Neville and fellow disbelievers should be invited to wherever City do the testing.
'Come in Gary. Feel free to talk to all the players. Touch anything you want. As you know there's no real infection here. Have a cuppa and a snack made in our kitchen where the cook didn't really have the virus' etc
If Neville and others did attend they would have more protective clothing than a bomb disposal man in Afghanistan.
Or find a load of excuses for his OWN safety.
 
Jesus H Gabz said:
As in normal regular life a crisis can sometimes bring out the worst in people (maybe it’s a true reflection of who they really are) and just like the toilet roll hoarders & criminals taking advantage of this pandemic, the likes of Neville will seek to gain from it in the football world. Football players get a bad press in this country, but they are being churned out for entertainment, forget about what they are being paid, they are being forced into travelling from tier 1-4 in some cases, and in our case straight into the path of a new strain, when Denmark burnt a 100 million mink we closed the door on em, in this country we just drop them into ground zero, I’m not advocating footballers get the vaccine before all those that need it more, but if I’m a player I’d be asking some serious questions of the football authorities
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I presumed that was text prediction but after a quick Google I can only say 'Wow'.
 
I live in London and my brother is a nurse at east Surrey hospital and he was meant to meet me (out the front of my house) to exchange the Christmas presents for the kids this afternoon. Originally he was meant to come to ours Christmas Day but had to obviously cancel and spend the day on his own the poor sod (he’s divorced and kids live with the mum).

Anyway, he just called and said he can’t come as the hospital is totally overrun and he’s been summoned into work as they need him. Also every hospital worker has had their annual leave blocked until Feb.

He told me it’s dire. Poor fucker has had long Covid himself and was basically a mess for 6 months with overheating, brain fog, black outs the lot. He couldn’t even look after his kids when it was his care days.

They should not be playing football.
 
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Beanhead said:
I live in London and my brother is a nurse at east Surrey hospital and he was meant to meet me (out the front of my house) to exchange the Christmas presents for the kids this afternoon. Originally he was meant to come to ours Christmas Day but had to obviously cancel and spend the day on his own the poor sod (he’s divorced and kids live with the mum).

Anyway he just called and said he can’t come as the hospital is totally overrun and he’s been summoned into work as they need him. Also every hospital worker has had their annual leave blocked until Feb.

He told me it’s dire. Poor fucker has had long Covid himself and was basically a mess for 6 months with overheating brain fog. Black outs the lot. He couldn’t even look after his kids when it was his care days.

They should not be playing football.
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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.
 
TheBlueDune said:
It won't sink in until a player is in a coma on a ventilator or even dies.

And can you imagine the shitstorm if an Everton player or Ancelotti had come down with it next week.
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exactly. We’d have been crucified

the only time it will be considered correct to cancel games when players get covid, is when Dipperpool or rags get 5 cases & then the attitude in press will do 180 degree turn
 
Anyone criticising City over this needs to give their head a wobble.

We're in a global pandemic, lives are being lost and people are left with long term side effects. Anyone who still thinks City should have turned up with a depleted squad, clearly haven't considered that players or backroom staff may still have been contagious. If they're criticising us now, imagine the backlash had we passed it on to half the Everton squad.

The game had to be called off, it was the only sensible decisision. Had this been Everton, or if we face this with future opposition in an upcoming games it's still the right decision. Pathetic that people would use this to fuel their anti City bias but this is the world we live in. Fuck em.
 
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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