ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

[catcherintherye]

Agreed but the rule is black and white (or at least as clear as it can be in such a fluid situation.

25 players in your squad. If 13 or more test negative for covid game is played, bring in the YT etc to cover the rest. If you have 12 or less available due to covid, game postponed (not forfeited)

Either way, I think its a moot point, if a club is in that level of corona football wont be getting played

Have you any evidence for this postponed thing mate? I haven't seen that at all. I mean has tehre been official guidance confirming this?

And yes you are right, I presume all the clubs agreed to these rules at the START (thats pretty critical here) of the season, so we have to go with them, for better or worse.

I suppose the grey area may be, if a club has say 15 pro's and requests a postponement. The other team would be well within their rights to reject it, and state the only way around it ought to be a forfeit.

 

[catcherintherye]

there is independent verification and tracking, I don't think the clubs are analysing the results. While it's less dramatic, he probably got a false negative before the positive

Yes I mean, I don't think anybody is going to falsifying test data.

I mean for a starting point, it really won't do them any good to do so. If you have a player who has it, you do not want them pssing it around the squad. If a PL team, in the context we are in, was sending people out into public, who were infected having lied, it would be a very serious, and I'd imagine potentially criminal action. I don't see it at all.

 

[number4.]

Have you any evidence for this postponed thing mate? I haven't seen that at all. I mean has tehre been official guidance confirming this?

And yes you are right, I presume all the clubs agreed to these rules at the START (thats pretty critical here) of the season, so we have to go with them, for better or worse.

I suppose the grey area may be, if a club has say 15 pro's and requests a postponement. The other team would be well within their rights to reject it, and state the only way around it ought to be a forfeit.

Just looking there now & the rule is that a club can apply for postponement due to covid if they have less than 14 players available (I assume ignoring other injured players) & it is then subject to a PL hearing. I can't imagine them going down the forfeit route, even if it's solely out of consideration for our old friend TV revenue

 

[Seathestars]

Anyone mentioned the best centre half in der werld getting nutmegged by Jack Grealish yet.

Evening lurkers

 

[bluebrotha77]

 

[bitter-no-better]

So they bring in Thiago who gets Covid then a few more get it. Always knew he would get some assists from somewhere this season.

 

[arch stanton]

Losing 6-2 to Villa in 1990 (?) still haunts me to this day...the fun that was made of me at school....whatever happens from now on they won’t ever forget this humiliation and everyone laughing at them. So ironic is it was villa....and 7-2!
Ollie watkins is the new David Platt

I was there for that, got comp tickets of David platt in the villa end, went nuts when we scored at the death, got laughed at. We'd have gone top if we would have won

 

[Ruairi77]

Not sure how linked the financial fortunes of the RS and the red sox are but the Sox are hurting!
They own their own TV network that shows all their games and they heavily rely on viewers paying to watch, especially now.
In 2019, viewership was down 20% on'18 and this year it was down 56% on 19. That in a season where no one could go to the game and there was not much other competition for TV attention. For a while Baseball was the only show in town and nobody was watching the red sox.
Like I say, not sure how linked they are but FSG are definitely in a sticky situation with their baseball team.
https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/re...ter-trying-fix-them-one-winter-would-be-worse

 

[catcherintherye]

Just looking there now & the rule is that a club can apply for postponement due to covid if they have less than 14 players available (I assume ignoring other injured players) & it is then subject to a PL hearing. I can't imagine them going down the forfeit route, even if it's solely out of consideration for our old friend TV revenue

Ah ok. Well with respect that is very different to saying no forfeit. Its undecided. We dont know. We can guess of course which is fair enough. The only thing to add, is the only real precedent we have is the Leagie Cup, where there was a forfeit, so until we know more, that seems the most likely/logical outcome.

 

[Tommy Chong]

Pretty much, since most kopites have been living in complete and utter denial about the fact that Villa gave them a proper footballing lesson the other night.

 

[NathDogg]

I'd be very surprised if there is a team without cases. There should be a clear guide on what happens if this occurs as it is quite predictable an event. @number4 's response indicates this is the case. I presume that this season will end with many cancellations/ point awardings that this will be more of an asterisk than the last one which essentially saw rule changes midway to guarantee the ending of the season - it would have been far better to award Liverpool the title and fudge the euro allocations and relegations than try and shoehorn the football in, in a compromised fashion. So far this season at least, all games have been played behind closed doors with a standard set of rules.

Nail firmly in head there mate - it wasn't so much the forced break and lack of fans that created the asterisk last season, as both were understandable given the circumstances they were trying to get matches on again to shoehorn them all in.

The main problem with last season was the bonkers rule changes on number of subs and bloody drinks breaks, which completely compromised any integrity the competition had, and basically made a mockery of the entire league ( it was like two different comeptitions!)

As you say, we are all playing under the same rules now and should do so until the end, or it will be even more of a farce than last season was.

God knows what they will come up with if it continues to get out of hand, as it seems it is, and clubs like murderpool spreading the virus all over the shop, and those idiots who all went to the little birthday party for Tammy bleeding Abraham, are definitely not helping!

 

[joe1878]

Havent stopped laughing at this.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

 

[thirdmantackle]

Its not like Covidpool FC have a history of hacking or hiding information about something dodgy going on in the club?

 

[number4.]

Ah ok. Well with respect that is very different to saying no forfeit. Its undecided. We dont know. We can guess of course which is fair enough. The only thing to add, is the only real precedent we have is the Leagie Cup, where there was a forfeit, so until we know more, that seems the most likely/logical outcome.

yeah fair point, but one addition - the league cup game was forfeited because the ground was closed and couldn't host the game. If the same happened under PL conditions, it would (as agreed) be moved to a neutral venue. So not exactly a precedent