COVID Watch

[Saddleworth2]

He comes across as having a bit more class than your average scouser.. so I'd be disappointed in him if he didn't do this without being prompted... pretty sure Pep would if the tables were turned

If I remember, he was the only PL manager to write to Pep congratulating him when we won at CAS.

 

[give it to gordon]

The one thing City must not do is feel pressured into playing if they are not able to do so. Fuck the haters

this

 

[give it to gordon]

what away to run a league thats see who or hasnt got the virus in a pandemic so a game of football can take place, what a farce its becoming

 

[half & half derby scarf]

Don't think we'll see any PL matches in January. Just as well because they are all dull as dishwater without fans.

 

[bellsouth]

Don't think we'll see any PL matches in January. Just as well because they are all dull as dishwater without fans.

I agree with the second part of your post but my feeling is that the Premier League will do anything to keep this weekends fixtures and then they have 2 weeks off anyway so a pause after this weekend seems more likely

 

[Paul1970]

Just come from the docs for my flu jab. In Spain but same stands. They were very clear. Get home. Lock yourself down. Don’t take any unnecessary risks. Tell people around you.
“This is out of control and we’ve not even added the Christmas contacts yet”.

Playing fucking football my arse. Grubby money grab is all it is.
Stay safe everyone

Gonna be a long road ahead and the world will change as we know it . For once the world is united in fighting a common enemy as Covid doesn’t discriminate. These vaccines hopefully will give us our life back so we just need to hang in .

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Quite frankly as a retired Doctor who has been involved in football, Gillingham and Maidstone United club Doctor, I was so surprised that the team stayed in a hotel in London. It beggars belief that this was allowed. How stupid can one get. OK you have to think about fitness and recuperation, but surely players,coaches, staff welfare comes first.Especially when you have resources like private aircraft on tap.

I am staggered that certain teams have been allowed to have fans, Scousers for eaxmple. Literally a few weeks ago they had the highest rates of Covid. Not only is it an unfair advantage for the team to have fans, but medically, makes no sense. Have a sharp lockdown, things get better remove the lockdown, and in no time you get a rebound. The only way this will get better is for immunisation to be rolled out or herd immunity and that is usually 80% of any population. I was in hospital as a patient today and spoke to an ex colleague, a consultant who has still not been immunised. Nurses in out patients are apparently low risk so have not had the jabs either.This was in East Grinstead, one of the greatest hospitals for plastic surgery worldwide.For those of historic interest, it is where the WW2 pilots had pioneering surgery.

The quandary for me is how important is football.Its not just football but the arts in general.Does watching football improve the mental welfare of the nation ? I would argue it does for a significant proportion of the population,even on TV. Let us not understimate the mental component in illness. If we dont do the things we love, we become low and that affects our immune systems.

Sadly we face a question of risk now. Do I feel sorry for footballers who get Covid? Of course I do , but no less than the nurses, doctors and health care workers who work for a pittance in comparison at much greater risk. I feel we have reached the point that we were last year. Close it all down until herd immunity and immunisations take hold. But if it does continue, I find it hard to feel more sorry for people earning 150k plus a week compared to the vast majority of the population. And please believe me, having worked with footballers, many are very thoughtless, and that is polite.

Best Wishes to you all.

But football isn’t just about millionaire athletes, it’s much more than what we see on the telly, regardless of how jolly it makes us.
It’s an industry that, even with a smattering of supporters in a small number of grounds, employs more ‘support’ workers (training staff, caterers, cleaners, groundsmen/women, drivers, security staff etc.) than footballers.
Those support staff earn ordinary wages and they are put at needless risk. Do you feel for them or are they fair game because of what footballers earn?

Also, what about the families of the footballers and the many other non-football people who can be infected by the footballers who are currently moved around the country from hotspot to hotspot, breaking the basic protocols that ordinary people are held to adhere to, while being a virus transporting system taking the plague with them.
Thoughts are that City’s players contracted it in London, then they come home and the support staff get it too, then it goes home with them etc.

I agree that football is a cheering thing that helps to stop us getting too despondent but, in all honesty, it’s the many hundreds of people dying each and every day that really pisses me off.
My view is that I’ll be very happy for a complete lockdown and no football if it helps save lives, any lives.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Wonder if City were top by 10 points at this stage whether the PL would think any differently?

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

Some good points there

Some good points there

For me it hits the nail firmly on the head, i certainly think if football is not postponed in the next few weeks, allowing crowds should be reversed. Don't see the logic and it does give teams that can have a crowd an advantage over those that can't

 

[@BluePhil8]

I love how we are seeing people’s true natures come out now though. Just never forget that vile, ugly human beings like Gary Neville and David Moyes are opportunistic enough to make a life threatening virus in to a political point for football of all things.

Seriously sick, and proves how ugly they are on the inside. That goes for the press pack as well, but we knew that already.

Maybe if they were to catch the virus and have lifetime respiratory problems as a result, they might actually have some self reflection about their own rancid opinions. Doubt it though, they’d still be the victims in their tiny little minds.