Coronavirus in football
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
Considering we play Burnley on 30th and we both have a backlog of fixtures to fit in I don't think would be beneficial to us.
Surely if clubs are riddled with Covid, there'll be a bunch of cancellations on Boxing day as well?
The Premier League are looking incompetent to say the least. Money talks I guess.
The Premier League are looking incompetent to say the least. Money talks I guess.
That's the leap out with this. Why not the next round!?
6 games called off this week, takes 10 days to be in and out the system they say, so why assume there won't be any games off on Boxing Day?
I guess we'll find out tomorrow if the Boxing Day games are going ahead.
I guess the PL don't really give a feck, but the clubs certainly do.
I guess the PL don't really give a feck, but the clubs certainly do.
The clubs are the PL
Right
most teams will get their players back next week so i dont see why the league must stop.
its been fair for all teams. stadiums are full as it should. the only thing that matters is the negative test to enter the stadiums and im so dissapointed in the bundesliga as i thought they had the protocols, the system to ask for the negative in the entrance.
after almost 2 years and it seems they dont get it, why are they playing in empty stadiums ? so ridiculous.
hats off to the english football. it has proved one more time it is the best league in the world.
its been fair for all teams. stadiums are full as it should. the only thing that matters is the negative test to enter the stadiums and im so dissapointed in the bundesliga as i thought they had the protocols, the system to ask for the negative in the entrance.
after almost 2 years and it seems they dont get it, why are they playing in empty stadiums ? so ridiculous.
hats off to the english football. it has proved one more time it is the best league in the world.
It's weird. There's only three games due to be televised in the UK on the 26th.
To be fair, the clubs are clamouring to keep playing. Especially Chelsea.
I thought Chelsea were whingeing that they didn't have enough players to put on the bench?
Great respect for Klopp for being outspoken about this, shows great leadership and it's no wonder all his players are vaccinated. Not surprised at all that our club is full of morons and lacks leadership.
I’m not convinced Liverpool are fully vaxxed. Thiago has caught it at least twice now that we know off. Unlucky?
You can still catch it if double vaxxed.
source: am double vaxxed and currently have covid. It doesn’t guarantee you won’t get it, especially the newer Omicron strain.
I thought they’d been pretty public about not wanting to play? So probably not the best choice of teams to pick.
That's right. Last data I saw, double vaxxed and boostered reduces your chances of infection by two thirds. Also reduces the severity of the disease massively. Not a Klopp fanboi, but he's got his head screwed on here.
I think they’re 99% vaxxed. Perhaps Thiago is the outlier. Possible he caught it twice though since others have and still been vaccinated.
Probably answered in this thread but how are other leagues doing in regards to covid? Can’t see many postponements around Europes big leagues
I was being sarcastic.
is there any legal grounds for clubs to withhold pay based on vaccine status though? seems a bit sketchy
So 2/3rds of this weekends fixtures (week 18) had to be cancelled but the matchday that is discussed of being postponed is ... week 20? While the EFL cup during the week and boxing day match day is supposed to go ahead? And two days after week 20 (week 21 starts on the 01.01.2022) they continue?
Now I get that this will help in reducing the strain on the players that are not out - but in terms of circuit breaker, stopping the infections, this will do nothing at all...
Now I get that this will help in reducing the strain on the players that are not out - but in terms of circuit breaker, stopping the infections, this will do nothing at all...
Fans have to prove vaccine uptake or provide a negative test. Just like the players. Only the players are tested much more frequently.
They probably don’t have it as bad as us because there not run by clowns. We have a prime minister who thinks it’s alright to party Whilst telling the whole country to stay in doors and to keep social distance. They’ve also stopped fans from going to games and probably have a strict policy where all players have to be vaccinated. I believe quite a lot of prem players decided they don’t want to get them done.
And performing their job, not following their free time entertainment.
At the moment there are capacity regulations for the stadiums in force in Austria and Germany. Austria just came from a lockdown which gave us room to breath but the Omicron wave has yet to fully hit europ. mainland.
I realise that, but twice? As mentioned elsewhere perhaps he’s the outlier
Yep, this notion that fans pay the salary is bollox too, especially for the top clubs
I think there should be a two week break now. It’s a shambles.
Saw some stats showing vax levels in PL players at 68% but in the 90s in Spain and Italy. Apparently this mirrors vax uptake in 20 and 30 year olds in the respective countries. So it boils down to the PL players being a little thicker than their counterparts elsewhere.
How severe are your symptoms out of interest? I’m guessing with footballers they’re fairly mild.
They sold Amazon the showing rights for Xmas /boxing day for big bucks no?
Pretty mild tbh. Mostly cold symptoms.
What is the benefit of postpone the next game week? Is that will help everyone to play the next game? You can’t guarantee what will happen. Either a good break of two or three weeks which I really hate to see and keep everyone is isolated with very restricted conditions which I also doubt all players will follow, OR continue like this.
If most clubs are behind by 6 or 7 fixtures come end of January, I see no way the season can continue.
Broadcasters will also want to know the next steps.
People will be cancelling their subscriptions.
Broadcasters will also want to know the next steps.
People will be cancelling their subscriptions.
You think this will solve the problem and all matches will start up again?
Assuming players are in line with the population at least 70% are double vaccinated. The games would still be postponed, players would still catch Covid and would still need to isolate. I don't understand what problem this would solve in football context?
Amazon makes their employees work even if there is a tornado right in the middle of the warehouse, I doubt players connected to a ventilator can't play is going to fly with them.
Not sure what they think is going to magically happen after the 1st of the year.
Pretty much - was posturing that perhaps that’s the reason they are looking to delay the NY fixtures and not the BD ones