I don’t understand this angle. Didn’t UEFA agree to the cancellation/postponement before the match? Like, how do you agree that day and now come back and say “we’ll you had 13 players and should’ve fielded a team, so you forfeit”. That’s just a ridiculous position.
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I don’t understand this angle. Didn’t UEFA agree to the cancellation/postponement before the match? Like, how do you agree that day and now come back and say “we’ll you had 13 players and should’ve fielded a team, so you forfeit”. That’s just a ridiculous position.
Biggest understatement of all time!
The whole point of it for me was to use the 2nd team, if we need to play the 1st team and risk Son, Skipp etc getting injured then it’s a no from me.
I think we called it off before referring it to UEFA, although they agreed we had a case - think that's how it played out.
It seems utterly ridiculous to me that we're being painted as the bad guys in this situation. Have people forgotten what COVID is or something?
The worst thing to happen would be Rennes forfeiting and us going through because of that, though. Imagine how we'd feel if we saw another Premier League club progressing in Europe like that.
The worst thing to happen would be Rennes forfeiting and us going through because of that, though. Imagine how we'd feel if we saw another Premier League club progressing in Europe like that.
It’s going to hit everyone if the transmission is as bad as they say. Think of Liverpool with 10-20 players with Covid and their CL campaign, it could fuck a huge number of clubs in very unpredictable ways.
Nah - forfeit the game is the most they'll do.The panel will rule that we forfeit the game. I don't see how they can do anything else.
They will probably fine us too and I wouldn't rule out a UEFA ban next year.
Ludicrous as all that sounds, we are actually get our asses pumped because we had a covid outbreak....
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They can't set a dangerous precedent by fining or banning us from UEFA competitions as a covid outbreak is possible at any single club in Europe.
If they did that to us, then they'd have to do it to one of the darlings of Europe if they had a similar outbreak and had to miss a game.
Does anyone have any doubt that Rennes are just being twats as the match is meaningless to them and they're just feeling "I'm alright Jack".
If Rennes needed the win, they'd be bending over backwards.
With all the grief we are getting from various sources I kind of just wish we had fielded a team (provided we had the 13 players and a GK) and if Rennes players had got infected and subsequently missed games then that's theirs and UEFA's fault for being such twats.
There's conflicting reports.
Do we actually know whether we had 13 registered for Europa players and a goalie available?
It could all hinge on that.
We still did the right thing regardless for the safety of ours and the opposition players.
I doubt Rennes would have been happy if we played the game and infected a shit load of their players.
In fact we should probably have bluffed them and told them the team we were sending it was riddled with covid but we had no choice.......... I wonder whether the Rennes players would fancy tipping up to that for a dead rubber for them.
I'd rank this trophy above the League Cup, to be honest. People think it's pony because it's the first one. Next year when we see an English club treat it with respect everyone will start thinking it's a lot more serious.
This was at Vitesse right?
Can't understand why they're so angry at us, seeing as they go through by virtue of us 'forefitting'
....or are they just pissed off they didn't think of it first?
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News in that Kane has applied for a 3-3 draw with Hat Trick, on the basis we’d go out anyway but he’s unfairly missing a chance to smash Linekers back door in
Uefa can reimburse the fans then that went to these matches both home and away. Shitty little organisation uefa.