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Now I admit that when I found out the Everton game was off I was pretty relieved. However the whole point of these postponements was originally around covid but that’s now moved onto injuries and/or unavailability. Whilst it’s not exactly our fault we have the Africans not with us for a month, we’ve known for ages it would happen. This has heavily contributed to the problem.
The PL have now boxed themselves into a right corner. You can now see the BCC’s in particular looking into how they can play this to their advantage.
Let’s have an imaginary situation. Liverpool are playing an away CL SF on the Wednesday. They’ve an away league match on at 1630 on the Sunday because of Sky. Their CL opponents have the same. But they’ve contacted their domestic league and agreed to switch their league match to Friday night to give them more time to prepare. ( that happens right now anyway). Liverpool have already got top 4 but can’t catch Man City. They’re not allowed however to field a weakened side due to PL rules. So……..
Güten Tag PL. Herr Klippity here. Sadly we won’t be able to play our meaningless match at Brighton, sorry forget I said meaningless, because we’ve picked up 10 small injuries and/or sickness over the last 24hrs. Poor Sadio went into a tackle with the Egyptian dying swan in training and as they both dived, sorry fell to the floor they hit each other’s heads so now won’t be available. Our Brazilian guys decided to have a night out on Friday and they must have had a bad batch of caipirinhas so have all gone down with a bug? Milner isn’t available because he’s now 54 and struggles without his crutches. Dick van Dyke fell over his wife’s clogs and stubbed his toe whilst Terence Trent-Darby is still out of breath from trying to catch Lookman 4 months ago.
But seriously why not? This is the slippery slope. The BCC’s in particular have done this for years with international call ups. Fergie started it with Giggs. Never played a Welsh friendly. Mount had his molars out in November over the break. Not a week later when they had important CL/PL games to play.
Am I the only one to think this is going to get very very silly?
The PL have now boxed themselves into a right corner. You can now see the BCC’s in particular looking into how they can play this to their advantage.
Let’s have an imaginary situation. Liverpool are playing an away CL SF on the Wednesday. They’ve an away league match on at 1630 on the Sunday because of Sky. Their CL opponents have the same. But they’ve contacted their domestic league and agreed to switch their league match to Friday night to give them more time to prepare. ( that happens right now anyway). Liverpool have already got top 4 but can’t catch Man City. They’re not allowed however to field a weakened side due to PL rules. So……..
Güten Tag PL. Herr Klippity here. Sadly we won’t be able to play our meaningless match at Brighton, sorry forget I said meaningless, because we’ve picked up 10 small injuries and/or sickness over the last 24hrs. Poor Sadio went into a tackle with the Egyptian dying swan in training and as they both dived, sorry fell to the floor they hit each other’s heads so now won’t be available. Our Brazilian guys decided to have a night out on Friday and they must have had a bad batch of caipirinhas so have all gone down with a bug? Milner isn’t available because he’s now 54 and struggles without his crutches. Dick van Dyke fell over his wife’s clogs and stubbed his toe whilst Terence Trent-Darby is still out of breath from trying to catch Lookman 4 months ago.
But seriously why not? This is the slippery slope. The BCC’s in particular have done this for years with international call ups. Fergie started it with Giggs. Never played a Welsh friendly. Mount had his molars out in November over the break. Not a week later when they had important CL/PL games to play.
Am I the only one to think this is going to get very very silly?