Leicester postponement

[daza_1973]

Who remembers this ?
How times have changed...

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/middlesbrough-rocked-by-threepoint-penalty-1283330.html

 

[Runub]

The rules should be clearer it's madness. There's a point where there won't be space in the calender to keep postponing games

True. We could end up with a serious backlog of games and fighting relegation. How fair is that???

 

[Grogu the blue]

Remember this….

Police called in as Spurs hopes dashed after food poisoning | Football | The Guardian

<p>Ten Spurs players were struck down by food poisoning after a hotel meal - just an unlucky coincidence or did Chef Wenger have anything to do with it?</p>

amp.theguardian.com

An off-colour Spurs crashed to a 2-1 defeat at West Ham after it was ruled the match would have to go ahead, while their north London rivals Arsenal beat Wigan 4-2 in the final match at Highbury to clinch fourth place and qualification for Europe's elite competition.

Spurs had 4 players in their travelling squad WITHOUT food poisoning and were forced to play the game.
Leicester have 48 hours to get their remaining first team, academy and loan players sorted to play the game.

This is a joke and completely unprecedented.

Bet no allegiances where in the committee room when that decision was made

 

[barneygumble]

Madness.

Truly mad. When did injuries ever become an issue? COVID, yes but injuries? Marvellous.

That’s now Leicester without Vardy, and the AFCON players, and Newcastle with Wilson and Saint Maximin, who we’ve had to miss.

Doesn’t really seem fair.

 

[kev]

This isn't on Leicester. Or on us letting it happen . It's on the Premier league having no definite rules and letting this develop.

Spot on, but of course the Premier League is an entity. This decision was made (presumably) by a committee, or possibly even an individual.

So exactly who did make this decision on behalf of the Premier League?

 

[Eggs]

Any slight advantage is taken from us straight away, don’t want to drone on about it but why did we have 6/7 kids in the squad against Chelsea, missing all our top players

…a game we got a draw out of.

i appreciate the frustration and the feeling of unfairness.

 

[Grogu the blue]

Madness.

Truly mad. When did injuries ever become an issue? COVID, yes but injuries? Marvellous.

That’s now Leicester without Vardy, and the AFCON players, and Newcastle with Wilson and Saint Maximin, who we’ve had to miss.

Doesn’t really seem fair.

They will have a nicely refreshed squad with additions when we play them

 

[Runub]

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That‘s the ticket….enclosed space, hundreds of drunks spraying Covid everywhere, no mask, possibly no jabs. Professional outfit this Leicester City, but we suffer

 

[ForestBlue]

Spot on, but of course the Premier League is an entity. This decision was made (presumably) by a committee, or possibly even an individual.

So exactly who did make this decision on behalf of the Premier League?

and thats why they need to be made to publish how they came to that decision (with actual numbers)

but we all know that they wont!

 

[Grogu the blue]

…a game we got a draw out of.

i appreciate the frustration and the feeling of unfairness.

Not one of us expected that, we weren’t guaranteed by any stretch of the imagination to secure 3 points from our postponed games, but the 2 teams should of got on with it like we had too

 

[Martin Alvito]

Assume you believe in fairy tales and Santa Claus as well?

Somehow, I don't see the expectation that scheduled fixtures get fulfilled as a fantasy on quite that level.

This is a significant new low for the league.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Basically it’s ok to play the kids in an FA cup game but not in a league game because we don’t want to lose.

Dangerous precedent being set here with these postponements.

 

[Izzy1878]

I' m sure they were at the darts last week..... Absolute shambles.

 

[TheRealist]

I thought this was professional football, where the rules matter and the competition is supposed to have integrity. It turns out that the rules in professional football matter as much as they do in professional wrestling.

Maybe next game Big Dunc can get tagged in, suplex an opponent and then hit the opposing goalie with a with a folding chair?

Even with blue-tinted glasses on, I think the league would argue that games have more "integrity" when played with enough first-team players to actually form a side. Leicester has 8 first-teamers available.

 

[TheRealist]

….all that matters is we beat them whenever we play them. Hopefully we’re also in a better place when that game comes around.

Que Será.

Top man!

People are whining as if the only way we could possibly beat Leicester is to have them field a severely-depleted side. Never thought I would live to see the day.