Sure the PL is happy about this, players less likely to do anything else other then training and home. Games less likely to get cancelled.
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Greenwood is a Manchester United player. Kyle Walker plays for a team that most newspaper readers don't know or care about.
I would support a longer ban but I would also like to see points deducted for the club. Currently, any bad publicity is short lived and of limited consequence for the club. Risking the chance of silverware, perhaps impacting promotion or relegation would focus minds in the dressing room as a whole and introduce more collective responsibility.
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That is a lot. Fulham and City outbreaks + players being idiots over Christmas?
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Should go down starting from about the end of January when certain players have no/less reason to keep being idiots.
58 positives is massive, especially considering the knock-on contact-isolating it will mean. Expecting to see lots of games rescheduled at the very least.
Either going to result in a ridiculously unrealistic fixture pile up, or the league will simply have to get suspended again (the right option depending on circumstances). That is a massive amount. Provided the next 2-3 rounds show a drop in positives each time, we should be alright. IF it continues to rise, this season is getting stopped (or should).
So they could suspend the league again? And if so, can they call it early once we are top?
Would love to know where these cases are. It will all come out. Haven't they said if F.A. games need cancelling it could involve a forfeit of the game.
They’re not different, just different timescales.
Feel like Fulham and City numbers are baked in to the newly reported cases, although it's hard (/I can't be arsed to check) to work out the overlap with the date ranges.
What's certain though is that football is not immune to the vast number of cases rising elsewhere. With the new lockdown, I think the Prem will come out relatively unscathed and won't need cancelling. It's the lower leagues that risk being overwhelmed with cancellations.
What's certain though is that football is not immune to the vast number of cases rising elsewhere. With the new lockdown, I think the Prem will come out relatively unscathed and won't need cancelling. It's the lower leagues that risk being overwhelmed with cancellations.
In one of the tweets/releases I saw it mentioned that 'the bulk' were from City and Fulham.
Hardly surprising. Fulham are definitely doing something wrong as they we having problems before New Year weren't they?
I don't know about the bolded part. I'm actually trying to track down where I read the above info but I can't seem to find it again.
30th December (Spurs) and 3rd January(Burnley) were games cancelled by Fulham, the first game would not be due to New Years Eve.
Not at all, without sounding like Rafa Benitez I was simply stating facts
Absolutely.
Cutting the L16 is an interesting idea but it saves only a few days. Compare that to the 18 day "minimum tournament" you've come up with plus a minimum of a week to prepare plus a minimum of a week rest afterwards.. even an 18 day minimum tournament is at least 32 days of preparation and recovery.
I don't think they'll scrap the L16 to save 4 days of 36. It's a good idea though
League cup semi finalist's should have got a bye into the 4th round of the FA cup.
Too late now but would have saved a fixture
Too late now but would have saved a fixture
3rd round of the FA Cup is usually a good match to let fringe players get a match - and to let other players be suspended so they can play against Liverpool
1 in 50 people have it in the UK right now. Hard to insulate footballers from the outside world completely.
Just imagine if Liverpool had been in the League Cup semifinals and Utd hadn't and those rules were put in place!
Facts like that famous Kyle Walker Christmas Party?
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Go Chorley!
I can see a good amount of FA Cup games being called off, its such a shame for those smaller teams especially missing out on what should be massive money makers.
Another two cases in City's squad (Carson, Palmer).
They better not infect us, really don't understand how little control they seem to have.
Really will be a punch in the gut to see football cancelled again. I think they can and will ride it out though.
Doesn't help when you've got knobhead players ignoring the rules consistently.
I’d cancel the FA Cup too much travelling up and down the country and mixing with lower league players who don’t have the same resources or protection as the big teams.
I’d also kick city out of all competitions as punishment for their players behaviour.
I’d also kick city out of all competitions as punishment for their players behaviour.
Yes. Why are you taking issue with this?
I'm taking issue with your fact-checking. If you could just take me through it real quickly.
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