Arteta and co. take note.
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We regret to announce that Sunday’s north London derby against Woolwich has been postponed.
This follows an application from Woolwich to the Premier League on the basis of a combination of COVID, existing and recent injuries and players on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations.
We are extremely surprised that this application has been approved.
We ourselves were disqualified from the European Conference League after a significant number of COVID cases meant we needed to reschedule a fixture and our application to move our Leicester fixture was not approved - only for it to be subsequently postponed when Leicester applied.
The original intention of the guidance - here - was to deal with player availability directly affected by COVID cases, resulting in depleted squads that when taken together with injuries would result in the club being unable to field a team.
We do not believe it was the intent to deal with player availability unrelated to COVID.
We may now be seeing the unintended consequences of this rule.
It is important to have clarity and consistency on the application of the rule.
Yet again fans have seen their plans disrupted at unacceptably short notice.
We shall once again send food deliveries to the local food banks to avoid unacceptable waste.
We are sincerely sorry for our fans - some of whom will have travelled great distances.
Note to our supporters
Tickets will remain valid for the rearranged fixture. All affected supporters will be contacted via email with further details.
Ah hang on, a gooner just played this card in a text message…
“You lot have always lacked class, its a big NLD against your fiercest rivals who can only field a team made up mostly of reserves and U23s. Its an easy 3 points that sadly you will never get. Unlucky. Carry on crying.”
Winds me up. We have to do them in the rearranged fixture. We just have to.
Not anything lethal, just something very embarrassing, one of the most odious human beings ever created!
A guide to Premier League match postponements due to COVID-19
More details on the process by which recent fixtures have had to be called offwww.premierleague.com
Here are the rules in case anyone’s interested. A lot to digest in there. The U-21 players must be “appropriately experienced” (having played in a game (apart from FA cup 3rd round??) this season for any club). Also mentions “any other exceptional circumstances, which could mean AFCON in this case.