Footballers and CoronaVirus

[Satchmo Distel]

Can't Shrewsbury find 14 under-23 players, as Derby are apparently going to do?

[Bizarre Löw Triangle]

The WSL decision allowing Arsenal and City to postpone their games is absolutely laughable. Honestly what's the point of the league when it's so clearly run in the interests of a handful of big clubs (obviously not the first time they've done this or anything).

[Snake Plissken]

Villa vs Liverpool in doubt after the home side's entire first team squad is in self-isolation.

[Third rate Leszno]

At least when Klopp plays his u18s against Villa this season it won't look quite such a mismatch.

[fatbear]

The WSL decision allowing Arsenal and City to postpone their games is absolutely laughable. Honestly what's the point of the league when it's so clearly run in the interests of a handful of big clubs (obviously not the first time they've done this or anything).

Yes, it is an incredible decision. Both clubs should either have forfeited the games, or played with reserves/youth players to make up the number.

[Patrick Thistle]

https://twitter.com/RebeccaTVnews/status/1347197044079923205?s=19

[Patrick Thistle]

This was apparently a photo from Christmas Eve that may explain a lot re the Shrewsbury outbreak

https://twitter.com/salopcast/status/1347272443291951107?s=19

[Antepli Ejderha]

This was apparently a photo from Christmas Eve that may explain a lot re the Shrewsbury outbreak

https://twitter.com/salopcast/status/1347272443291951107?s=19

Link broken or removed PT

[sw2borshch]

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/...id-19-19579501
The Boro have also closed their training ground due to an outbreak and expect to be fielding a load of U-23s at Brentford in the FA Cup.

[Patrick Thistle]

Link broken or removed PT

OK. It was a photo from Instagram I think of a lot of Shrewsbury players together in a house. It was posted on Christmas Eve by one of the players saying it had been a tough year but they had got through.

There was some debate whether it was a photo taken on Christmas Eve or not. But that's when it was posted.

[Ray de Galles]

https://twitter.com/ollie_bayliss/status/1347515554035281924?s=21

https://twitter.com/ollie_bayliss/status/1347524022364491776?s=21

[DCI Harry Batt]

I just spotted that, and came here to see if the news had been shared already.

[Third rate Leszno]

I think it's obvious that leagues cannot be completed in full now - but surely there must be a number of options that could be considered as well as null & void? Play each other once? Rescind last season's league cancellations (is that even possible?) and combine those results with whatever gets completed this season?

[Jobi1]

York manager Steve Watson tests positive. Might mean we play a little more positively for the next couple of weeks...

[Satchmo Distel]

A positive from a positive.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Football shouldn't be being played. At all.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Football shouldn't be being played. At all.

Agreeing with Steve Bruce now TG, hope you're OK.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Spare a thought* for highflying FPL managers who have to decide whether to transfer in Son & Kane for guaranteed hatful against Villa kids, or avoid both teams cos it might get postponed...

* (I know, don't)

[DCI Harry Batt]

Agreeing with Steve Bruce now TG, hope you're OK.

A stopped clock, and all that.

Bruce, not TG.

[Jobi1]

A positive from a positive.

... or not. A York player has reported symptoms this morning so this afternoon's match at Boston has been immediately postponed.

[Artificial Hipster]

Football shouldn't be being played. At all.

Agreed.

[Sporting]

And by extension no sport at all?

[1974ddr]

Spare a thought* for highflying FPL managers who have to decide whether to transfer in Son & Kane for guaranteed hatful against Villa kids, or avoid both teams cos it might get postponed...

* (I know, don't)

If Villa are unable to field a recognisable first team I would expect the game to be postponed, in the same way as several previous matches involving other clubs have been.

[DCI Harry Batt]

And by extension no sport at all?

Yes, for me. Team sports, at least.

[Sporting]

I'm in the middle on this. Surely actually playing carries few risks (open air and so on) and the danger would come from shared dressing rooms, communal showers, team coaches etc. But there are ways to lessen these hazards. Or players enjoying private parties, but that's not a pre footballing matter. That said, people who are needed in the stadiums for the games to be able to take place may be more at risk.