I suppose that it would beat having them both at 50% for the whole season.
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Spurs thread 2020/21
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I suppose that it would beat having them both at 50% for the whole season.
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If football goes down that root what is the point of carrying on.Looks like they’ve got a bye in the league cup as Leyton Orient have a mass Covid outbreak.
PannickAtTheDisco
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how convenient their schedule gets lightened.
bluetonium
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Would this have been the same course of action if Spurs had been the team with several positive tests?
If so we potentially could see some unusual draws, even have a winner who never wins a game?
If so we potentially could see some unusual draws, even have a winner who never wins a game?
PannickAtTheDisco
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Would this have been the same course of action if Spurs had been the team with several positive tests?
If so we potentially could see some unusual draws, even have a winner who never wins a game?
one way to win it, just make sure the opponent gets some positive tests so they're forced to abandon games, don't even need VAR then.
Gotta smile at posts suggesting that Spurs are somehow getting preferential treatment and are the bad guys in this.
What about Leyton Orient selfishly and recklessly deciding to carry on playing games fully in the knowledge that most of their players were ill and hadn't been tested? If Spurs are eventually given a bye (no decision on that yet), they have promised to pay Orient whatever they were due to earn had the game been played.
Fourteen years ago, when the entire Spurs first team squad went down with a bug / food poisoning the night before the final game of the season (that should have seen them qualify for the Champions League for the first time), they were told that if they could not fulfil the fixture, they would forfeit it. The players consequently took to the pitch while sick as dogs, and inevitably lost to a West Ham team they should have beaten comfortably in normal circumstances. So no..............if Spurs get a bye in this far less important game, it won't be a case of receiving preferential treatment. It will just be the rules being as strictly applied to Orient as they were to Spurs 14 years ago.
What about Leyton Orient selfishly and recklessly deciding to carry on playing games fully in the knowledge that most of their players were ill and hadn't been tested? If Spurs are eventually given a bye (no decision on that yet), they have promised to pay Orient whatever they were due to earn had the game been played.
Fourteen years ago, when the entire Spurs first team squad went down with a bug / food poisoning the night before the final game of the season (that should have seen them qualify for the Champions League for the first time), they were told that if they could not fulfil the fixture, they would forfeit it. The players consequently took to the pitch while sick as dogs, and inevitably lost to a West Ham team they should have beaten comfortably in normal circumstances. So no..............if Spurs get a bye in this far less important game, it won't be a case of receiving preferential treatment. It will just be the rules being as strictly applied to Orient as they were to Spurs 14 years ago.
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Gotta smile at posts suggesting that Spurs are somehow getting preferential treatment and are the bad guys in this.
What about Leyton Orient selfishly and recklessly deciding to carry on playing games fully in the knowledge that most of their players were ill and hadn't been tested? If Spurs are eventually given a bye (no decision on that yet), they have promised to pay Orient whatever they were due to earn had the game been played.
Fourteen years ago, when the entire Spurs first team squad went down with a bug / food poisoning the night before the final game of the season (that should have seen them qualify for the Champions League for the first time), they were told that if they could not fulfil the fixture, they would forfeit it. The players consequently took to the pitch while sick as dogs, and inevitably lost to a West Ham team they should have beaten comfortably in normal circumstances. So no..............if Spurs get a bye in this far less important game, it won't be a case of receiving preferential treatment. It will just be the rules being as strictly applied to Orient as they were to Spurs 14 years ago.
I'm surprised you took the bait to this one mate, I did laugh when someone said we will get special treatment because Orient have unfortunately gone down with the 'rona. A Levy masterstroke spreading the virus!!!
Neville Kneville
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Gotta smile at posts suggesting that Spurs are somehow getting preferential treatment and are the bad guys in this.
What about Leyton Orient selfishly and recklessly deciding to carry on playing games fully in the knowledge that most of their players were ill and hadn't been tested? If Spurs are eventually given a bye (no decision on that yet), they have promised to pay Orient whatever they were due to earn had the game been played.
Fourteen years ago, when the entire Spurs first team squad went down with a bug / food poisoning the night before the final game of the season (that should have seen them qualify for the Champions League for the first time), they were told that if they could not fulfil the fixture, they would forfeit it. The players consequently took to the pitch while sick as dogs, and inevitably lost to a West Ham team they should have beaten comfortably in normal circumstances. So no..............if Spurs get a bye in this far less important game, it won't be a case of receiving preferential treatment. It will just be the rules being as strictly applied to Orient as they were to Spurs 14 years ago.
There wasn't a pandemic 14 years ago & the question would be whether a PL team's players going down with Covid would result in them being knocked out.
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I'm pretty sure if you cannot have X amount of players in the squad the match is forfeited. I'm sure Southgate (edit was Robson)done that with Boro once upon a time, but that backfired. Although I get the banter and pointscoring bullcrap, this is going to be the new norm for a while. Hopefully it ends soon because football isn't the same!!There wasn't a pandemic 14 years ago & the question would be whether a PL team's players going down with Covid would result in them being knocked out.
Neville Kneville
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I'm pretty sure if you cannot have X amount of players in the squad the match is forfeited. I'm sure Southgate (edit was Robson)done that with Boro once upon a time, but that backfired. Although I get the banter and pointscoring bullcrap, this is going to be the new norm for a while. Hopefully it ends soon because football isn't the same!!
They shouldn't punish clubs for getting ill in this environment.