Footballers and CoronaVirus

[ad hoc]

Darren Moore was away from manager duties at Wednesday for a couple of weeks with Covid and came back earlier this week. But now he's gone back to hospital with blood clots on the lungs and pneumonia which sounds very bad. Fingers crossed for a swift and full recovery

[Uncle Ethan]

I commentated on a lockdown game last night. Was a very eerie feeling. I know it is obvious from the telly, but such games bear no resemblance to the real thing. It's like opera with the sound down.

[Sporting]

Opera with the sound down would be fab.

[Sam]

Ad hoc will be sorry to hear that after a long Covid layoff, the Colombian Efmamjjasond 'Calendar' Gonz?lez (his first name is made up of the initial letters of the months of the year; the Spanish for January is 'enero'), who's now with All Boys in Argentina's second tier, had a heart attack during a game a few weeks ago. He was rushed to hospital and discharged the same day, but his career might have come to an early end already.

[Nesta]

How did he come by the nickname

[Sam]

Not sure if you're joking or just didn't read the post, Nesta ...

Efmamjjasond 'Calendar' Gonz?lez (his first name is made up of the initial letters of the months of the year; the Spanish for January is 'enero')

[ad hoc]

Not sure if you're joking or just didn't read the post, Nesta ...

I think you can rest assured that he was joking :-)

[Satchmo Distel]

I think he was implying that you didn't need to put in the explanation because it's self-explanatory. It's very gentle joshing.

[Sean of the Shed]

Primeira Liga game between Belenenses and Benfica abandoned after home team only had six players left on the pitch.
Shamefully, Portuguese governing bodies refused to allow the game to be postponed, despite both teams requesting it.

[Ray de Galles]

This has been mentioned on a few threads, some reports state that Belenenses did not request a postponement.

[Jimski]

Apparently there's a covid outbreak at Tottenham. Rumours they may try to get their match at Brighton postponed. Hopefully that's not true - if Oxford can manage, then sure as hell a PL side can.

[steveeeeeeeee]

This has been mentioned on a few threads, some reports state that Belenenses did not request a postponement.

My wife used to work for Beleneses SAD's president (Belenenses SAD are very different to Belenenses and a whole other story). On a personal level, I used to get on very well with him, he even used to read these forums and would follow Millwall's results because he knew me and would chat about their progress when I saw him. There's a lot I could say about him on here, but he's very rich, powerful and lives on the edge of the law. He also might sue me if he's still reading otf, but I'm sure he's got better things to do these days, like trying to destroy historic football clubs and laundering money via player transfers.

[Patrick Thistle]

(The message on the sleeve and the headline on the BBC's app look to be related)

[Toby Gymshorts]

Van Dijk, Fabinho and Curtis Jones all out with COVID, apparently.

Which will make an excellent excuse for the inevitable Newcastle win.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Thomas Frank has called for all games to be called off this weekend.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Hard to argue against, really.

[Satchmo Distel]

What's the response at non-league levels where they don't have any protocols or testing? Do they limp on until nearly every team can't field XI players? Do they keep allowing fans until the local hospitals are full? Do they pretend it's just like the flu?

[Simon G]

Gloucester City have had an outbreak ahead of their game against Wrexham in the FA Trophy tomorrow. It's so bad my cousin, an u21, has been called up to the squad.

[Furtho]

What's the response at non-league levels where they don't have any protocols or testing? Do they limp on until nearly every team can't field XI players? Do they keep allowing fans until the local hospitals are full? Do they pretend it's just like the flu?

I'm seeing leagues at lower levels tweet things like this:

https://twitter.com/Ollie_Bayliss/status/1471846026969550853

[caja-dglh]

City’s manager, Pep Guardiola, has returned an inconclusive Covid test and will have a second

I didn't even know an inconclusive test was possible?

[Satchmo Distel]

He's probably positive but the amount of infected DNA is too small to be sure.

[Patrick Thistle]

Maybe this is when we discover nandrolone has a long lasting prophylactic effect against coronoviruses?

[Lang Spoon]

Nah, 3 Liverpool players have tested positive.

[Simon G]

Gloucester City have had an outbreak ahead of their game against Wrexham in the FA Trophy tomorrow. It's so bad my cousin, an u21, has been called up to the squad.

Not only in the squad, he's been told he's starting.

If any of the Wrexham fans on here are going, I'd love to hear how Kian Gardiner gets on. He's playing up front.

[Capybara]

Not only in the squad, he's been told he's starting.

If any of the Wrexham fans on here are going, I'd love to hear how Kian Gardiner gets on. He's playing up front.

Hat-trick today and front page of the NLP tomorrow!