“We were unable to reschedule, so you have to forfeit, because we’ve now decided you should have played the original game”.
UEFA logic.
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“We were unable to reschedule, so you have to forfeit, because we’ve now decided you should have played the original game”.
UEFA logic.
If it was real madrid or barcelona they wouldnt chuck them out. Still a little stigma by uefa on english clubs if we get chucked out. How difficult is it to rearrange a game. Even pub leagues do.
Even if we won this thing, no one is going to give us any credit for winning a trophy. What Rodgers said the other day about not even knowing what this competition is, is how everyone feels, including our players based on their performances.
Getting controversially chucked out of this thing and thus preventing the obvious Tottenham banter that would happen if we lost is not a bad solution. Get more full weeks of training for Conte to work with the players and still a lot to play for in three completions. It’ll be better in the long run.
Getting controversially chucked out of this thing and thus preventing the obvious Tottenham banter that would happen if we lost is not a bad solution. Get more full weeks of training for Conte to work with the players and still a lot to play for in three completions. It’ll be better in the long run.
Rodgers is a prick
And I guess there’s a good lesson for teams going forward. If a club gets Covid and can’t play, just refuse every date to reschedule and claim the win. I’m sure that won’t be an issue in the CL knockouts or anything like that.
Come on. You telling me any of the 4 english teams would be fucked out?
I'm suprised the whole "but it's our winter break" bullshit washes with UEFA tbh.... Pretty sure other european clubs honour European cup fixtures outside of their domestic seasons.
whereas i would have been happy to win this i thought stupidly we would get by the first stage with any squad selection i have no real issue with being thrown out it is just cutting out the inevitable loss which was defo on the cards .
I don't get why this is such a problem for everybody... I mean it's inconvenient, yeah... but why are Rennes being such dicks about it? We got covid. This type of crap has happened a lot and will happen again most likely. Why do we get booted out of a cup for doing the right thing? They'd probably declare war if we played and they got infected and went home to France with it...
They wouldn’t win though.
Because a bunch of out of touch 70 year old white men sit around a table and make decisions.
So a large chunk of our squad gets COVID and now we're being punished for it.
Yep, sounds like UEFA,
Yep, sounds like UEFA,
Why is everyone up in arms when we clearly had 13 players without Covid
Cause they want to win the competition and we are a legit threat.
8 players, 5 staff.
Exactly, so surely we had 13 without Covid
Yep .. I hate to say it but if those are the rules and we were capable of fielding a side, we can't really complain too much. People can say the rules aren't fair but the alternative would be re-arranging every game whenever a side were hit, where's the new line drawn?
It's all a bit ludicrous but that's the reality of this pandemic and we've just been a bit unlucky. People either need to cope with the current rules or accept no football again for a good while, because this sort of thing is gonna happen to other sides and fixtures can't just be re-arranged every single time.