Other option is to shut football down until it is over
Coronavirus in football
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I don't think so. And it should not be rescheduled. Bad luck. It happens to every club. And if you start to cancel games then season will never end. And what would be benchmark? 6 players? 7? 10?
Apparently Neymar is holding a week-long New Years party back in Brazil (the country with the second highest COVID death rate). He was asked not to but went ahead anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ire-for-macabre-week-long-new-years-eve-party
Benchmark I guess is that one day before the game some new cases arise, what is the guarantee that other players will follow in the next days? Possibly infecting the opponent too. I think the postponement and rescheduling comes down to common sense eventually.
Given the ridiculous number of cases at the moment, wouldn't it be safer to stop football in England altogether for a month or so. January is going to be terrible.
Think that might happen if what has happened to City happens to a few more clubs, but we're long way off that for now.
Like Jamie Lannister going back to Kings Landing in the final season of Game of Thrones to see his sister.
Will need to hit a few clubs all at once for that convo to start.
Other European countries had quite a few sporting outbreaks and didn't postpone.
Yep, I imagine worst case is players would go in a world cup style camp over the lokcodwn period.
With todays game i 100% agree. When it is in last minute and you don't know who has it and who don't.
But to reschedule next game because you miss 7,10 or 15 players should be out of question
Ah fair enough I wasn't aware of the context. Yeah postponing both the Chelsea and United games would seem very odd to me as well.
Such an odious cnut.
That's last resort material. As we simply don't have space for another month to add to the schedule.
Over 190K deaths already in Brazil, yet this wispy cnut is packing 500+ people together for five full days.
Not sure how good tracing is in Brazil, but this could be a prime super spreader event when looked back upon.
It’s one fecking holiday season. Why do daft cnuts have to do shit like this?
Has Neymar had covid yet?
Except with Burnley away also to fit in, and the dreaded Europa it'll be tough to fit it in.
wiry just playing Newcastle on Boxing Day. Will be interesting to see if any their players have caught it? if so could cause carnage for the league
I get the feeling Neymar is one of these people who knows the risks but couldn't give a crap. Same as the house parties going on here in the UK
Hasn't it been proven outside spread is very minimul. We played Newcastle just before their outbreak and not one of ours caught it.
The Premier League should schedule our game against Burnley where we would have originally played City.
Same as tens of millions of mental deficients here in the states.
Neymar is one of those guys who would unplug your life support machine to charge his phone.
Total Cnut
Neymar is one of the biggest cnuts in football world.. Ever. Despicable human being.
I thought the guidelines were that if a team has 14 fit players the game can go ahead? It must be a big outbreak or they’ve changed the guidelines/rules. I understand that it’s more sensible to call the game off due to false negative tests etc and there is a risk of our (Everton) players getting it too but a bit more transparency is needed here. Especially as this is different to the Villa -Newcastle postponement which was called off 3 days before rather than 4 hours before.
I imagine because it’s been called so late, city are able to cite not knowing the big picture in terms of the severity of the outbreak. That won’t cut it you imagine for their next games.
Genuine laugh out loud cafe moment .Bullshit cause its City. Newcastle already had this same situation. Why should City be treated differently.
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Postponing one game is reasonable. The Chelsea and United game should go ahead as scheduled. You can surely field 14 players even if you have to reach into the reserves.
I'm not Manchester City's biggest fan, not even close.
Going to be mad backlog for Man. City as I assume Chelsea game will also be called off. Still in league cup and getting to the final would mean another league game postponed.
Just going to have to play on the two free midweek CL dates as I think last 16 round is still split over four weeks.
Just going to have to play on the two free midweek CL dates as I think last 16 round is still split over four weeks.
Would you say the same if we had Bruno, Rashford , Maguire, AWB, plus few more out dew to covid?
As a general point wonder how far football players are down the list for vaccines.
I know people would turn their noses up at some more of the rich and famous jumping the queue but I can see premier league paying and getting them to take it at start of February if January is massive disrupted.
I assume looking at the list players wouldn't get it until June?
I know people would turn their noses up at some more of the rich and famous jumping the queue but I can see premier league paying and getting them to take it at start of February if January is massive disrupted.
I assume looking at the list players wouldn't get it until June?
No chance of ending the season in time really. January has five more prem games scheduled.
Unless you just cancel the euros again to summer 2022 and then hold the World cup 12 months later.
Although we have a health service supposedly based on need, many countries don't. Couldn't the PL simply buy vaccines straight from Pfizer, or a different country or whoever? When a player needs knee surgery he goes abroad or jumps the queue at home by paying privately.
To be honest the Euro's should have been cancelled already once it couldn't be played in its usual summer window. Too much football being crammed into too small a period of time.
I would. Every team has 25 players plus kids. Season is like it is. If you have bad luck...oh, well.
Games (unless it is in ladt moment situation) should not be postponed. Because as i said earlier; when that ends? How many players must have covid to get postpone? 5? 10?
That Everton vs Manchester City is off is of course the right decision but the next Manchester City matches must be played if they have enough players available (and yes i would say the same about us in that case).