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My first thought that it was bad for City, not good.
Healthy dollop of confirmation bias here either way.
Far from a deliberate ploy but as unintentional as it is the blame lies on City. Everton now have to fit in this game later on in an already congested season. I struggle to believe a club with the wealth City have couldn't field a team tonight.
Everton have asked for full disclosure of the information of why the match was postponed, and rightly so. We shall see what arises
Nightmare for City.
After playing twice a week for the last 2 months we already had 8 games scheduled for January - Now we're going to have 2 league games in hand, possibly 3 plus the CC Semi.
comment by Divoc==8k (U22339)
posted 11 minutes ago
Far from a deliberate ploy but as unintentional as it is the blame lies on City. Everton now have to fit in this game later on in an already congested season. I struggle to believe a club with the wealth City have couldn't field a team tonight.
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How does the blame lie with City lol. Nobody was saying this when the Newcastle game was postponed.
Kind of sad that fans would use a situation like this as an opportunity to point score
comment by Divoc==8k (U22339)
posted 11 minutes ago
Far from a deliberate ploy but as unintentional as it is the blame lies on City. Everton now have to fit in this game later on in an already congested season. I struggle to believe a club with the wealth City have couldn't field a team tonight.
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We could probably field a team if the game was not cancelled.
The decision to cancel was not City's.
But why would you want to expose other teams to us at this moment?
comment by Arsenal Legend Pochettino (U18355)
posted 2 minutes ago
Kind of predictable that liverpool fans would use a situation like this as an opportunity to point score
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FTFY
comment by Divoc==8k (U22339)
posted 12 minutes ago
Far from a deliberate ploy but as unintentional as it is the blame lies on City. Everton now have to fit in this game later on in an already congested season. I struggle to believe a club with the wealth City have couldn't field a team tonight.
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it wasn't about fielding a team, it was about controlling the spread of infection throughout the club. Im sure if asked we can easily play the game on Wednesday or Thursday once everything is under control
City are on a 10 game unbeaten run, have the best defence in the league and would have gone 2nd with a win tonight.
You would have to be thick as pigshit to honestly think the club were somehow avoiding the game.
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 minutes ago
City are on a 10 game unbeaten run, have the best defence in the league and would have gone 2nd with a win tonight.
You would have to be thick as pigshit to honestly think the club were somehow avoiding the game.
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46 hours in between two games is ridiculous though.
It seems Liverpool fans were secretely delighted with our fixture congestion which could explain their outrage.when the game was called off.
Not sure having to fit in extra games suits anyone right now.
Although, it is worth remembering that the Premier League had previously said that teams would have to fulfill any fixture, if they had at least 14 players available, including under 21's.
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I’d ignore anything on Twitter (or a couple of replies on this thread), this isn’t a good thing for us at all and I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of our games postponed. It is the right decision though, as it was with Newcastle.
More importantly than anything, I wish everyone who’s got it a speedy recovery. A football game not being played is insignificant to that right now.
Some weird obsessions with Liverpool on here.
comment by meltonblue (U10617)
posted 3 seconds ago
I’d ignore anything on Twitter (or a couple of replies on this thread), this isn’t a good thing for us at all and I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of our games postponed. It is the right decision though, as it was with Newcastle.
More importantly than anything, I wish everyone who’s got it a speedy recovery. A football game not being played is insignificant to that right now.
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I've waded through dozens of articles in the papers and on SM.
Not a single one mentions the wefare of the players infected.
comment by Dr Sheldon Cooper (U1217)
posted 16 seconds ago
Some weird obsessions with Liverpool on here.
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Seems its a bit off for fans to talk about the 11th hour cancellation of probably the biggest game of the weekend.
comment by jlou1978 (U15376)
posted 4 minutes ago
Not sure having to fit in extra games suits anyone right now.
Although, it is worth remembering that the Premier League had previously said that teams would have to fulfill any fixture, if they had at least 14 players available, including under 21's.
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That rule was introduced for injuries, not for players with a highly contagious virus.
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 20 seconds ago
comment by jlou1978 (U15376)
posted 4 minutes ago
Not sure having to fit in extra games suits anyone right now.
Although, it is worth remembering that the Premier League had previously said that teams would have to fulfill any fixture, if they had at least 14 players available, including under 21's.
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That rule was introduced for injuries, not for players with a highly contagious virus.
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Yeah, that's not true.
'Premier League clubs have been told they will be forced to fulfil fixtures in the event of Covid-19 outbreaks among their squads this season.
The Premier League's determination to get the congested 2020-21 campaign completed on time is such that clubs have been told requests for postponements will be rejected unless they have fewer than 14 players available, and that they will be obliged to utilise their Under 21 squads to ensure matches can be played'.
Of course it's true, even basic Track and Trace would tell all the other players to self isolate for 10 days even if they had tested negative.
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 2 minutes ago
Of course it's true, even basic Track and Trace would tell all the other players to self isolate for 10 days even if they had tested negative.
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Plenty of PL players have tested positive and gone into self isolation, whilst the rest of the squads they are involved in, continued to play games.
Always knew you were disease ridden rats
comment by jlou1978 (U15376)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 2 minutes ago
Of course it's true, even basic Track and Trace would tell all the other players to self isolate for 10 days even if they had tested negative.
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Plenty of PL players have tested positive and gone into self isolation, whilst the rest of the squads they are involved in, continued to play games.
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Including City against Newcastle and previous games where players have contracted of been in contact with infected people whilst on international duty. - Mahrez, Laporte, Bernardo, Gundogan etc,
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posted on 28/12/20
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posted on 28/12/20
My first thought that it was bad for City, not good.
Healthy dollop of confirmation bias here either way.
posted on 28/12/20
Far from a deliberate ploy but as unintentional as it is the blame lies on City. Everton now have to fit in this game later on in an already congested season. I struggle to believe a club with the wealth City have couldn't field a team tonight.
posted on 28/12/20
Everton have asked for full disclosure of the information of why the match was postponed, and rightly so. We shall see what arises
posted on 28/12/20
Nightmare for City.
After playing twice a week for the last 2 months we already had 8 games scheduled for January - Now we're going to have 2 league games in hand, possibly 3 plus the CC Semi.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Divoc==8k (U22339)
posted 11 minutes ago
Far from a deliberate ploy but as unintentional as it is the blame lies on City. Everton now have to fit in this game later on in an already congested season. I struggle to believe a club with the wealth City have couldn't field a team tonight.
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How does the blame lie with City lol. Nobody was saying this when the Newcastle game was postponed.
Kind of sad that fans would use a situation like this as an opportunity to point score
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Divoc==8k (U22339)
posted 11 minutes ago
Far from a deliberate ploy but as unintentional as it is the blame lies on City. Everton now have to fit in this game later on in an already congested season. I struggle to believe a club with the wealth City have couldn't field a team tonight.
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We could probably field a team if the game was not cancelled.
The decision to cancel was not City's.
But why would you want to expose other teams to us at this moment?
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Arsenal Legend Pochettino (U18355)
posted 2 minutes ago
Kind of predictable that liverpool fans would use a situation like this as an opportunity to point score
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FTFY
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Divoc==8k (U22339)
posted 12 minutes ago
Far from a deliberate ploy but as unintentional as it is the blame lies on City. Everton now have to fit in this game later on in an already congested season. I struggle to believe a club with the wealth City have couldn't field a team tonight.
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it wasn't about fielding a team, it was about controlling the spread of infection throughout the club. Im sure if asked we can easily play the game on Wednesday or Thursday once everything is under control
posted on 28/12/20
posted on 28/12/20
City are on a 10 game unbeaten run, have the best defence in the league and would have gone 2nd with a win tonight.
You would have to be thick as pigshit to honestly think the club were somehow avoiding the game.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 minutes ago
City are on a 10 game unbeaten run, have the best defence in the league and would have gone 2nd with a win tonight.
You would have to be thick as pigshit to honestly think the club were somehow avoiding the game.
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46 hours in between two games is ridiculous though.
It seems Liverpool fans were secretely delighted with our fixture congestion which could explain their outrage.when the game was called off.
posted on 28/12/20
Not sure having to fit in extra games suits anyone right now.
Although, it is worth remembering that the Premier League had previously said that teams would have to fulfill any fixture, if they had at least 14 players available, including under 21's.
posted on 28/12/20
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posted on 28/12/20
I’d ignore anything on Twitter (or a couple of replies on this thread), this isn’t a good thing for us at all and I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of our games postponed. It is the right decision though, as it was with Newcastle.
More importantly than anything, I wish everyone who’s got it a speedy recovery. A football game not being played is insignificant to that right now.
posted on 28/12/20
Some weird obsessions with Liverpool on here.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by meltonblue (U10617)
posted 3 seconds ago
I’d ignore anything on Twitter (or a couple of replies on this thread), this isn’t a good thing for us at all and I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of our games postponed. It is the right decision though, as it was with Newcastle.
More importantly than anything, I wish everyone who’s got it a speedy recovery. A football game not being played is insignificant to that right now.
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I've waded through dozens of articles in the papers and on SM.
Not a single one mentions the wefare of the players infected.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Dr Sheldon Cooper (U1217)
posted 16 seconds ago
Some weird obsessions with Liverpool on here.
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Seems its a bit off for fans to talk about the 11th hour cancellation of probably the biggest game of the weekend.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by jlou1978 (U15376)
posted 4 minutes ago
Not sure having to fit in extra games suits anyone right now.
Although, it is worth remembering that the Premier League had previously said that teams would have to fulfill any fixture, if they had at least 14 players available, including under 21's.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That rule was introduced for injuries, not for players with a highly contagious virus.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 20 seconds ago
comment by jlou1978 (U15376)
posted 4 minutes ago
Not sure having to fit in extra games suits anyone right now.
Although, it is worth remembering that the Premier League had previously said that teams would have to fulfill any fixture, if they had at least 14 players available, including under 21's.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That rule was introduced for injuries, not for players with a highly contagious virus.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah, that's not true.
posted on 28/12/20
'Premier League clubs have been told they will be forced to fulfil fixtures in the event of Covid-19 outbreaks among their squads this season.
The Premier League's determination to get the congested 2020-21 campaign completed on time is such that clubs have been told requests for postponements will be rejected unless they have fewer than 14 players available, and that they will be obliged to utilise their Under 21 squads to ensure matches can be played'.
posted on 28/12/20
Of course it's true, even basic Track and Trace would tell all the other players to self isolate for 10 days even if they had tested negative.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 2 minutes ago
Of course it's true, even basic Track and Trace would tell all the other players to self isolate for 10 days even if they had tested negative.
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Plenty of PL players have tested positive and gone into self isolation, whilst the rest of the squads they are involved in, continued to play games.
posted on 28/12/20
Always knew you were disease ridden rats
posted on 28/12/20
comment by jlou1978 (U15376)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 2 minutes ago
Of course it's true, even basic Track and Trace would tell all the other players to self isolate for 10 days even if they had tested negative.
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Plenty of PL players have tested positive and gone into self isolation, whilst the rest of the squads they are involved in, continued to play games.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Including City against Newcastle and previous games where players have contracted of been in contact with infected people whilst on international duty. - Mahrez, Laporte, Bernardo, Gundogan etc,
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