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MackemX said:
I don't know how many noticed last night but Manquillo got booked for time wasting in the 95th minute. That was his 5th booking so he would have missed the Everton game and therefore another non covid missing player. He will have known this before kickoff so why do it so late in the game for something so stupid?

It seemed clear ASM and Wilson were injured though Fraser went off 'injured' in the 75th minute and Schar was holding his hamstring late in the game so I wonder if he's also injured now.

Do the Premier League have a limit of how many injuries/suspensions that are allowed when adding to covid cases? Given the likes of Chelsea have asked but were denied yet seemed to put out a decent team then why don't the PL come out and say how many are affected by covid and name them. I'd assume they are also checking tests are valid of course.

Everton have also had players out so possibly wouldn't have had anywhere near a full strength team out anyway but even you have to wonder just how many are due to covid and how many to injuries, especially with the Mags.
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14 players + keepers are enough to stop a game being postponed.

20-25 man squads plus 20+ player u23's squads would mean you would need approx 25 players + all with covid at the same time.

The kicker, and the real piss take, being that u23 players only count as being eligible if they have made a first team appearance so the PL is now actually incentivising NOT playing u23 players (and stunting their development) at the same time as demanding PL u23 players are developed by EFL teams in the pizza cup.

Whole thing is a total circus.
 
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What A Waster said:
In howe's post game interview he said you have to be able to name 13 outfield players and a goalkeeper.
Last night we had only 8 on the bench instead of 9 and two of those were keepers.
So out of 19 players in the squad we had 16 outfield players. With 4 injuries/suspensions that takes us below the number. Although i don't see why we can't bring in academy players and just get on with it
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How many had covid?
 
skullmeister said:
It's not the promised land.

The taking of the knee thing, MOTD proudly display every one of these religiously with at least one commentator saying last week "and there's the players taking the knee to show their support for all discrimination in it's various forms" (or words to that effect).

They've let the Government version of the Taliban buy a Premier League football club ffs 🤣🤣🤣🤣 but everyone taking the knee makes it fine and dandy and everyone is doing their bit.
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Precisely. This is what they lay themselves open to when they let in genocidal murderers. They’ve made a massive rod for their own backs.
 
Sweeper said:
The correct approach from the Premier League and EFL would have been a blanket “zero postponements” policy. Every club has a first team squad, and a reserve squad, and youth teams. If you get six Covid cases, bad luck, that’s why you have so many players on your books.

Anything short of that approach, opens the door for clubs to effectively pick and choose when they’d like to play their matches. That’s what’s happening now. Clubs are basically deciding when they’d like to play, to suit themselves. It makes a mockery of the whole competition.

Let’s not pretend that it’s only the mags either. Other clubs (including some around them in the bottom six) have already been at it.
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
 
ned_werby said:
Within 6 points of safety but a minimum of 2 games more played than the clubs they're chasing. I'm not wrong and you're a shitting mag apologist.
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I see a normal conversation is beyond you without childish name calling.

Next you'll want to fight me to prove you're a real man whose opinions should not be challenged.

Now I realise why I blocked you.
 
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