Everton (A) | Game Postponed

[Metalartin]

I think we're having a massive misunderstanding.

I was playing devil's advocate.

I did not mean to to say City players were "wildly" negligent. Maybe was not quite the intention. It was more like saying "maybe" as in I don't know one way or the other.

I meant to pose a scenario and then counter that perspective for those who might try that line of reasoning.

Oh that does it...

 

[cleavers]

if they were serious about players not contracting Covid then they would play all matches in some designated grounds with all players in a hub.

You can't ask players to do that though, they would refuse and rightly so, ever more reasons for the whole thing to be called off.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

They have reached the same level as those bastards across Stanley Park.

Amazing what a sniff of possible success does to people/clubs isn't it

 

[eyalluvitt]

I genuinely don't understand how any fan could want a free 3 points as a result of a forfeit. What is the point of having a competition without sporting integrity

If United go top after winning at Bus Smash Alley and the league is then suspended. Their scummy fans/media would celebrate a Covid title like it was 1999 tainted or not. The moral compass of sewer rats.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Debbie's changed

 

[super_city_si]

How difficult is it to understand that the squad (all players plus coaches) were together just 48 hours ago (playing Newcastle on Boxing Day) and now today’s test suggest a further 5 positive COVID cases (in addition to 4 in last round of testing) ... so everyone in that squad has been in close contact/exposed ... whether they catch it or not is something no one can tell but guideline is to self isolate till another round of tests is done and if you get two consecutive tests 48 hrs apart you can’t be sure ... did Everton or anyone for that matter want to play against the team who have been exposed to confirmed multiple Covid cases??

Question of fielding 14 players doesn’t arise as the squad hasn’t been able to have two rounds of tests ... that’s what happens when you arange games only 46 hrs apart ... we’ll have two more rounds of tests this week and then if we have 14 players available then Chelsea game would go ahead ... it’s quite simple ... only issue has come due to back to back fixture scheduling and not enough time in between for tests to be carried out ...

This above is for elite sports btw, the common man’s guidance is you come in contact with someone who tests positive, you don’t even get tested and still have to self isolate for 10 days ... and even if you don’t have any symptoms as you could still carry it from that positive case and onto someone else ...

we’re going to get fucked over for the Chelsea game.

 

[eyalluvitt]

I come out of Liverpool and I am lovely

 

[cleavers]

Just maybe stop looking at this from a football perspective, the club and its staff are meant to stay in a tight bubble, and they got 7 new cases in the past 3 days. The bubble has to be investigated to try and stop the spread.

Are there rules like this (other than from within each club), it's not like the return in the summer, where they were kept pretty much in a bubble.

Our bubble involved playing a game in a highly infected area and spending sometime in a hotel, which appears to have an outbreak too.

It will be interesting to see if infections take off again at Newcastle, if so that's proving that getting infected in one part of the country takes it to a completely different area, if that happens, then it's a serious issue for the PL, much more than the media are thinking.

League one, with 7 games off today suggests it is a bigger issue than the media want it to be, they don't want another shutdown, yet they want the rest of the country on shutdown it seems. No hypocrisy there then ?

 

[Metalartin]

You know, if Liverpool stayed in a hotel in a pro Arsenal area before a game, then got lots of positive COVID cases afterwards, I think I can guess the conspiracies they'd make up: "It's just like when Mike Tyson got food poisoning, after using his real name to order pizza, the night before a fight in his opponents home city...la"

I'm glad we're above that kind of shit on the whole.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

You can't ask players to do that though, they would refuse and rightly so, ever more reasons for the whole thing to be called off.

It would be great if City took the lead and just simply said to the authorities we are withdrawing our players from the next three matches because we want to prevent any more spread of this deadly disease which puts all our staff at risk. We should take the moral high ground and suggest we would rather forfeit all these games (including the semi) than risk the health of our employees and their families. What a statement that would be for the sewer rats in the English media and the scumbags at EFC, MUFC, and LFC.