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*Shakes head* Everton again.


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They know they are on solid ground with this.

 

Nobody is going to really question something done on 'health grounds' in the middle of this covid situation.

 

They've had some medical advisers say it should be off - nothing is going to challenge that......they've been clever clearly and turned a bad situation to the best they can.

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City are acting the knobheads here. No doubt some of their team have it but they are worried about losing to Everton and falling behind in the title race. They could have played tonight but know they have a better chance of 1-3 points when it's a standalone fixture. 

 

Newcastle seemed to have had a genuine squad issue and still have a number of players out. 

 

If the Premier League don't come down hard on this, then all teams will start postponing games and it will get ridiculous. 

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5 minutes ago, Ronnie Whelan said:

City are acting the knobheads here. No doubt some of their team have it but they are worried about losing to Everton and falling behind in the title race. They could have played tonight but know they have a better chance of 1-3 points when it's a standalone fixture. 

 

Newcastle seemed to have had a genuine squad issue and still have a number of players out. 

 

If the Premier League don't come down hard on this, then all teams will start postponing games and it will get ridiculous. 

"Based on strong medical advice the Premier League, in consultation with both clubs, have decided to postpone the fixture."

 

Won't be any coming down hard on this.

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5 minutes ago, an tha said:

"Based on strong medical advice the Premier League, in consultation with both clubs, have decided to postpone the fixture."

 

Won't be any coming down hard on this.

Just reading the BBC and it seems that statement is from City, then appears the Premier league back them up;

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55468576

 

A City statement said: "After the latest round of Covid-19 testing, the club returned a number of positive cases, in addition to the four already reported on Christmas Day.

"Based on strong medical advice the Premier League, in consultation with both clubs, have decided to postpone the fixture."

 

 

Everton said in a statement: "Our players were prepared for the game, as were both the team staff and everyone at Goodison. Match day is the most important date in our calendar. And this was a big one.

"While Everton will always have public safety uppermost, we will be requesting full disclosure of all the information that Manchester City provided to the Premier League so the club can be clear on why this decision was taken."

 

 

 

The Premier League said the rise in cases at City "created uncertainty" and that the competition's board "received medical advice that the match should be postponed".

A league statement continued: "The board agreed to rearrange the game as a precaution, and further testing will now take place tomorrow [Tuesday].

"The decision has been taken with the health of players and staff the priority.

"The Premier League continues to have full confidence in its protocols and rules, and the way in which all clubs are implementing them."

City are scheduled to play at Chelsea on Sunday, 3 January, followed by their Carabao Cup semi-final at Manchester United on Wednesday, 6 January.

The club said their squad and associated bubble will have testing before a decision is made whether to resume training.

 

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Thank fuck this is all with City. You can just imagine how nuclear they'd be going if it was us in this situation. Still, it'll be somehow brought around to be laid at our door. 

 

No doubt we'll hear from Catcher, DaveK or Domingo that the 'Powers that be' have been paid off by us to stop them going joint top with us after they beat City. Just when they were coming to terms with doing more than just taking part. And if one of their faithful say it, then it must be true.

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39 minutes ago, Scooby Dudek said:

Just reading the BBC and it seems that statement is from City, then appears the Premier league back them up;

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55468576

 

A City statement said: "After the latest round of Covid-19 testing, the club returned a number of positive cases, in addition to the four already reported on Christmas Day.

"Based on strong medical advice the Premier League, in consultation with both clubs, have decided to postpone the fixture."

 

 

Everton said in a statement: "Our players were prepared for the game, as were both the team staff and everyone at Goodison. Match day is the most important date in our calendar. And this was a big one.

"While Everton will always have public safety uppermost, we will be requesting full disclosure of all the information that Manchester City provided to the Premier League so the club can be clear on why this decision was taken."

 

 

 

The Premier League said the rise in cases at City "created uncertainty" and that the competition's board "received medical advice that the match should be postponed".

A league statement continued: "The board agreed to rearrange the game as a precaution, and further testing will now take place tomorrow [Tuesday].

"The decision has been taken with the health of players and staff the priority.

"The Premier League continues to have full confidence in its protocols and rules, and the way in which all clubs are implementing them."

City are scheduled to play at Chelsea on Sunday, 3 January, followed by their Carabao Cup semi-final at Manchester United on Wednesday, 6 January.

The club said their squad and associated bubble will have testing before a decision is made whether to resume training.

 

The 'medical advice' is the end of any discussion/investigation etc about it all.

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It's just another example of rules being changed during the season. The PL was quite unequivical about this at the start of the season. If you've 14 fit players including U23s with PL experience with negative test results, you play.

 

If this had been us, everton, city, united and chelsea fans would be giving it large that we've broken covid protocols and we'd be getting petitions going etc, etc.

 

PL players are supposed to be tested after each game. If they cant test and be sure of getting results before the next game in the PL at this time of year, they shouldnt have scheduled games every 2 and 3 days.

 

This stinks. And hiding it behind health and safety claims stinks even more. these are supposed to be, effectively isolated players. That la porte has the cheek to be saying stick to the rules. Shouldnt he be telling his fucking teammates that?

 

They are smearing arsenal as well. Im no fan of arsenal but if I were an official at arsenal, Id be fucking fuming at this. They've played 3 other clubs since 16 December, none of them have reported a covid outbreak in their club.

 

city travelled to London on the day they played arsenal and returned the same night. If the arsenal players were Typhoid Marys, you'd think everton, chelsea and southampton would have had issues by now.

 

I go back again to city having a very busy schedule with an EFL cup semi final against united  around 4th Jan and an FA Cup tie 4 or 5 days later. They've been given the night off tonight andare floating it they wont be available to play chelsea at the weekend. Ho hum.

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26 minutes ago, aws said:

A total of five players tested positive. We've had more defenders than that out and played games this season. They could have picked a squad and tested them all before the game. They've manipulated the rules again. 

Correct. But they've hidden behind the increasing number of positive covid tests in the country so no one in an official capacity is going to take a pop at them. And I see the moral high horse fc and it's fans are 'fuming' at their game being called off.

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It is up to PL now to put a stop to anyone else gaming the system now.

 

The 14 fit and healthy players, you play no matter what rule needs enforcing and they need to ensure testing is robust enough to cover games with 48 hr turnarounds (which appears to be how City have gamed system here)

 

Plus why are teams staying in hotels again...when they started playing again in June it was all in and out on day.

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