Tottenham handed bye in Carabao Cup

[PannickAtTheDisco]

This is a joke really. Orient did the responsible thing and got their players tested and have now lost their place in the cup as result.

Hull decline testing against West Ham and game goes ahead.

So lower league clubs who choose not to test and potentially play games with infected players are getting a better deal than those who agree to get tested. This only incentivises cash strapped clubs to take risks.

alternatively, PL clubs are now offering testing which conveniently comes back with a bunch of positive tests forcing a cancellation, allowing them to progress not on merit and free up their schedules.

Both teams should have been knocked out for failing to fulfil the fixture and give the bye to a team that actually qualified for the next round.

 

[Mon Autre]

alternatively, PL clubs are now offering testing which conveniently comes back with a bunch of positive tests forcing a cancellation, allowing them to progress not on merit and free up their schedules.

Both teams should have been knocked out for failing to fulfil the fixture and give the bye to a team that actually qualified for the next round.

I would have thought PL clubs are paying for testing as a means of protecting their own players' health tbh.

They should probably have just scrapped the cup altogether this season if they were going to be giving byes out for this sort of thing. Whole integrity of the the competition is shot for this year and nobody outside of who wins it each year cares that much about it anyway so I can't see what the point is.

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Levy will be working out how he can infect their opponents in every round so they can win the cup.

 

[blueparrot]

alternatively, PL clubs are now offering testing which conveniently comes back with a bunch of positive tests forcing a cancellation, allowing them to progress not on merit and free up their schedules.

Both teams should have been knocked out for failing to fulfil the fixture and give the bye to a team that actually qualified for the next round.

Hardly spur's fault.

 

[Crouchinho]

Both teams should have been knocked out for failing to fulfil the fixture and give the bye to a team that actually qualified for the next round.

So half of Orients team and staff goes down with Covid 19 and Spurs should be knocked out because of it? You won't be saying that in a league game if a team cannot play a match

 

[Rammyblues]

Given the state of the country at the moment all teams playing any game should be tested beforehand. If they can't fulfil the fixture it should be awarded to the other side whether a bye or automatic 3-0 loss. If a team refuses to test they should again forfeit the tie. Personally I can't see any cups or league matches lasting beyond Christmas.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Is this going to be happening to other teams too?

I can think of one team that would either be made to play or, if one team was laid low, the other team would deem to have lost on pens, so by the time the 'laid low' team had recovered they could take their rightful place in the next round.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

What about Orient's league games? Surely they would have to be rescheduled?

They will, but they have more scope to do that before the season ends. There isn't much free space to fit extra matches for Spurs in, and it should be consistent all the way through the rounds.

The league will have make a decision about how they deal with things if there are a lot of postponements.

 

[kaz7]

Wouldnt happen to us and i wouldnt want it to, rather give it to the small team in this case , maureen wont care though

 

[cjn]

It's the right decision but testing either has to be mandatory for everyone (which, obviously it should be) OR games need to be rescheduled if a team can't play. You can't have a situation where a team is trying to do the right thing and getting punished for it.