JOSE MOURINHO - Get your own house in order before taking the piss out of folk who are trying to keep people safe... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55515555 Three of your Spurs Super-Human Athletes out partying over Christmas Not one brain cell between them. WHAT PART OF STAY AT HOME DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND????
FIVE games now postponed in League One today: Accrington v Portsmouth - frozen pitch Peterborough v Doncaster - virus Rochdale v MK Dons - virus Shrewsbury v Crewe - virus Swindon v Wigan - frozen pitch All off. Only 6 games go ahead. I think Accrington will have SIX games in hand over some Clubs after today. They can't have played for weeks now.
Here it comes... Just days into an open-ended national Lockdown, with hospitals a couple of weeks away from being overwhelmed, it's time for football to stage its equivalent of an illegal rave; The FA Cup 3rd Round. Once the greatest day in the English football calendar, enjoyed by millions of fans. Now nothing more than a COVID19 super-spreader. People will get sick because this is going ahead. More pressure will be added to A&E departments and ICU wards already at breaking point. More people will die. This is like knowing in advance that a Hillsborough tragedy is going to happen, but doing NOTHING about it. I'm not having this "mental health" defence of football. That's Woke snowflake rubbish. There are other, safer ways of keeping the nation's morale up than risking the lives of footballers, football club workers and their families. The Panemic is REAL. We have to stop pussying out and deal with it.
40 positive tests in the Premier League over the last 7 days. 18 the week before that. Single figures up to that point I think. What will we see next week - 100 positive tests? How many do we have to see before lives begin to come before money.
As far as I'm aware the fatality rate for Coronavirus infections is about 3%. On average, one person will die out of every 33 who are infected. However, assuming most of the people in football who are being tested are relatively young and fit, with nearly no underlying health conditions, the fatality rate among that group I think is somewhere around 1% (one in a hundred). So with luck, no player or member of staff at a football Club has died yet from COVID19. Though we don't know about secondary infections (family members) and whether any of them have died. But it's only a matter of time. Sooner or later, some people will die from infections picked up because the football seasons have not been called off.
I had not heard about that. Guess the football authorities will want this kind of information played down as much as possible.
Four members of the Manchester City womens' football squad go to Dubai with the Club's permission... and come back with Coronavirus https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55537994 Meanwhile the Celtic squad has gone out to Dubai for a holiday. The way their season is going, they might as well not bother coming back
I'm a firm believer that 'insider' gambling by footballers and their mates should be heavily punished... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55552481 But the more details I read about the case of Kieran Trippier, the less substance it seems to have. Even though 3 of his 4 'offences' were dismissed by an appeal commission, a £70,000 fine and a ten week ban from football do seem to be a bit strong when you read what he actually did. I would say players behaving like idiots and breaking pandemic rules should be punished far more harshly than a player advising a mate on the 'phone to "lump on if you want..." concerning a bet where the odds had already shrunk to almost nothing because it was common knowledge the event in question was going to happen. The appeal commission rejected Trippier's claim that this was just banter between mates. Given the circumstances, it sounds like nothing more than banter to me.
Hard luck Chorley... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55560401 The magic of the FA Cup? Not in this fixture. Chorley are now playing a Derby U23/U18 team.
Significant Coronavirus outbreak at Aston Villa on the eve of their match against Liverpool https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55575321 Southampton v Shrewsbury postponed due to outbreak among Shrewsbury squad https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55563342
