UEFA- It has to be said

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You know he was actually dead on the pitch at one point, don't you?

Of all the things to play the 'footballers today are softies' card on, this one is ridiculous.

I hope Mehmet doesn't read his message, he'll Sign 6 TT riders before July, three year deals, option to extend. Proper sports people.

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witnessing the event clearly had an effect on their performance and the game should have been delayed

Imagine your old man collapsing in front of you

You are supposed to be playing a gig in your local pub

The pub says either get on with the gig in an hour or play tomorrow

😒

That's a really shit analogy, most people's father's where I grew up collapsed in front of their kids in the local boozer, it was standard.

[cyril evans awaydays]

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Wasn't that one of the options? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Think they were offered play the game or 12 o clock the following day.

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I think today's 'elite' professional footballers are not cut from the same cloth as TT riders. The Danish and Finnish players have been provided with counselling, though having seen a colleague collapse and then receive expert medical treatment and recover consciousness would be a rather uplifting experience in my opinion..

Travelling at 200 miles per hour on standard roads on an island in the middle of the Irish sea is not comparable with professional football. I think the TT is more dangerous than the death zone on Everest.

[life on mars]

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They were offered the chance to play it today.

oooh didn't know that

[life on mars]

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That's a really shit analogy, most people's father's where I grew up collapsed in front of their kids in the local boozer, it was standard.

My dad died when I was 13 thankfully not in front of me, dreadful moment in anyways life however it happens in a boozer , at home or in any other moment , greatly effected me and my mam

[StraightOuttaCanton]

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The whole tragic incident had a big emotional impact on me. There have, in my opinion, been some, at best insensitive and at worst totally unnecessary, words and pictures posted by both the mainstream and social media (including here).

Personally, I’m just glad Christian Eriksen got to see and talk to his family again.

Bill Shankley was wrong.

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Travelling at 200 miles per hour on standard roads on an island in the middle of the Irish sea is not comparable with professional football. I think the TT is more dangerous than the death zone on Everest.

The way Chelsea & Man City were collapsing and screaming every 5 minutes in the CL Final, you wouldn't think so, but that's another story.

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The way Chelsea & Man City were collapsing and screaming every 5 minutes in the CL Final, you wouldn't think so, but that's another story.

Yeah, I don't like that shit, trying to get players sent off etc, although I'm all for going down in the box if a defender gets himself into a shit position or the wrong side. The onus is on the defender in those positions, not the attacker who buys a penalty.

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There's no way UEFA would allow the final round of group games to be played separately. Don't think Belgium or Russia would be happy with that. Imagine a similar incident happened during Italy Vs Turkey and it transpired that, in their game in hand, a draw (or another result) would qualify both countries and knock Wales out. We'd be up in arms.

If that happened to an Italy player and his teammates had their heads in the shed, I'd like to think I'd sympathetic enough not to ge up in arms. I think that is kind of the point here. .... right ? It kind of goes beyond ambition and designs on glory.

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Lets face it there was no easy solution.

Luckily Erikson goes home to his family.

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Former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel claims Denmark’s players did not want to restart their Euro 2020 game against Finland after Christian Eriksen’s cardiac arrest.

Schmeichel, father of Leicester and Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that he did not think the players had a choice.

When asked if it was the players’ decision for the game to be restarted after Eriksen had been taken to hospital, Schmeichel said: “Well that’s an interesting debate.

“I actually saw an official quote from Uefa yesterday saying that they were following the advice of the player, the players insisted on playing – I know that not to be the truth. Or, it’s how you see the truth. They were left with three options, one was to play immediately and get the last 50 minutes played.

“The next one was to come in yesterday at 12 noon and finish the 50 minutes and the third option was to forfeit the game, 3-0. So work it out for yourself. Is it the players’ wish to play? Did they have any choice really? I don’t think they had.

“As you can hear from yesterday’s press conference, the coach, he seriously regrets putting the players back on to the pitch.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/peter-schmeichel-christian-eriksen-denmark-kasper-schmeichel-christian-b1865302.html

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Former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel claims Denmark’s players did not want to restart their Euro 2020 game against Finland after Christian Eriksen’s cardiac arrest.

Schmeichel, father of Leicester and Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that he did not think the players had a choice.

When asked if it was the players’ decision for the game to be restarted after Eriksen had been taken to hospital, Schmeichel said: “Well that’s an interesting debate.

“I actually saw an official quote from Uefa yesterday saying that they were following the advice of the player, the players insisted on playing – I know that not to be the truth. Or, it’s how you see the truth. They were left with three options, one was to play immediately and get the last 50 minutes played.

“The next one was to come in yesterday at 12 noon and finish the 50 minutes and the third option was to forfeit the game, 3-0. So work it out for yourself. Is it the players’ wish to play? Did they have any choice really? I don’t think they had.

“As you can hear from yesterday’s press conference, the coach, he seriously regrets putting the players back on to the pitch.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-b1865302.html

who really thinks the players would be in the right frame of mind to play, we all saw players clearly distraught

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The obvious solution would have been to write the game off as a 0-0 draw. There was no way the Danish players would have been in the right frame of mind to come back on. Idiotic from UEFA an organisation that decided on a tournament across Europe to give smaller cities the chance of hosting which ended up meaning England, Italy etc having home games and Wales travelling to bloody Baku and Rome.

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Former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel claims Denmark’s players did not want to restart their Euro 2020 game against Finland after Christian Eriksen’s cardiac arrest.

Schmeichel, father of Leicester and Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that he did not think the players had a choice.

When asked if it was the players’ decision for the game to be restarted after Eriksen had been taken to hospital, Schmeichel said: “Well that’s an interesting debate.

“I actually saw an official quote from Uefa yesterday saying that they were following the advice of the player, the players insisted on playing – I know that not to be the truth. Or, it’s how you see the truth. They were left with three options, one was to play immediately and get the last 50 minutes played.

“The next one was to come in yesterday at 12 noon and finish the 50 minutes and the third option was to forfeit the game, 3-0. So work it out for yourself. Is it the players’ wish to play? Did they have any choice really? I don’t think they had.

“As you can hear from yesterday’s press conference, the coach, he seriously regrets putting the players back on to the pitch.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-b1865302.html

That will do for me

The message board know all will scurry off

For a few days