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Last group game is on the 21st with the last sixteen game on either the 26th or 27th. Could’ve played it on the 23rd or 24th. Would obviously cause some disruption to travel arrangements but st. Petersburg isn’t that far from Copenhagen. 16s are in Amsterdam or 27th in Seville. 30 minutes from Copenhagen to Amsterdam... an hour and a half and a day extra if in Seville.
Probably doable if uefa could’ve been ****ed to make an effort.
Do you think that was the reason? They couldn't be bothered?Quote:
Originally Posted by Divine Wright
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Divine Wright
imagine if Gareth Bale collapsed on the pitch in such traumatic circumstances
Welsh players surrounding him
Then Wales are given two options
Play it later on tonight or tomorrow
I know what the reaction to that would be
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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
What would the reaction be?
Play it later that night once they know he's pretty muck OK I guess.. like the Danish players did.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
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..Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
You know he was actually dead on the pitch at one point, don't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
Of all the things to play the 'footballers today are softies' card on, this one is ridiculous.
But they are though. Most live in a protective bubble. sheltered from the great unwashed. They can't even manage their own 'twitter' accounts, often employing someone else to post all those 'great performance from the lads' messages for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
The reaction would have been ff sake cut us some slackQuote:
Originally Posted by lardy
The Denmark players were given a loaded gun to play Russian Roulette with
witnessing the event clearly had an effect on their performance and the game should have been delayedQuote:
Originally Posted by Freitag 4.17
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
😒
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Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
I feel like I've stumbled on to the Mailonline by mistake. Do you think they don't know how to operate twitter?
Their social media accounts are used as marketing tools. It's not my kind of thing, following someone like Harry Kane who has exactly that sort of message. I can't imagine enjoying reading the updates. Over 3 million people do follow him, for whatever reason.
But he doesn't have someone to write it because he's pampered and lives in a bubble, it's because they are for 'building the brand' and eventually selling merchandise.
Quite what the link between this and being offered counselling after having had the world watching you watching someone nearly die is, I don't know...
Yeah, I'm sure the Danish forums are full of their fans saying the same thing, especially having lost the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
But they can't just mull it over for a while and then try to squeeze the game in when they can. As said on here, the final group games have to kick off at the same time, for a start. And then, whoever qualifies from this postponed game would have a much shorter recovery time before the knockouts and be at a disadvantage. And organising all the stadium workers/media plus teams and backroom staff in a pandemic and keeping everyone as safe as they can from covid must be a nightmare even with months to prepare, let alone at short notice.
That's the reality.
It's not on the scale of a gig at the local pub, is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
It would be interesting to see whether and of the Danish players, officials or fans have objected to the time scales offered by uefa. As far as I can see, they haven't.
From what I gather they chose to play it the same day. You would think even the next day would have given them some time to process things and have a pre match preparation etc but they chose the same day themselves.
It's probably tough to organise and rearrange these matches at the best of times let alone during a pandemic.
Question for uefa I suppose is what would they have done if the outcome was worse, they must have some sort of planning in place.
One option would have been to play it 24 hours later. If that was not offered because television scheduling took priority then I think that UEFA fell short in their treatment of the teams, particularly the Danes.
Come on Lardy, let's not allow reality to get in the way of a good old rant about UEFA. They're corrupt, money-grabbing bastards. Distasteful, insensitive, etc. Just plain evil, basically.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
Wasn't that one of the options? Correct me if I'm wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays
A similar thing happened to me when I was 11. I lost a grandmother early one Saturday morning and I had a charity gig booked that evening to raise money for a scanner at POW, Bridgend.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I did the gig just out of a desire to help raise some funds. From what I recall, once I started playing, I didn't really think of much else other than the job in hand.
That night made £133. I was chuffed with that at my age.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Think they were offered play the game or 12 o clock the following day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
oooh didn't know that :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman