Played bench boost this week, great plan until the postponement robbed me of 4 players. Meanwhile in real life, this opens up a whole host of questions. City have played Newcastle and Arsenal last couple of games, one of whom has had covid postpone one of their games and close the training ground, the other involved a trip into a tier 4 area and a stay at a london hotel which has since had a number of cases confirmed (allegedly).
Add this to the meaningless internationals played a couple of weeks ago, and it's apparent, to me at least, that the continuation of professional sport is an economic decision and does not give due regard to the welfare of club officials and players.
We've had a nationwide xmas lockdown preventing people seeing their families, yet football in the premier league has continued with a minimum of 2 games per week for each club. Their is, to my mid, no justification whatsoever for this continuing, other than economics.
Apologies for the rant, this probably isn't the place, but something needs to change
There are a lot of business's open just for economic reasons that shouldn't be. Imho, the pubs should not have re-opened when they did. If there is a section of the population you can't trust to follow safety guidelines of any sort, it is people who are the worse for alcohol. Even now I know of certain pubs manipulating the rules to stay open when they shouldn't be.
Put into contrast with just that industry, and how many people would be involved with making football work, clubs and media, and football seems very small people wise versus the money involved. Add to that that all involved in football will be some of the most monitored and tested people in this country, and it is probably one of the safer industries continuing. Not something you could say about the hospitality industry.
I agree that there shouldn't have been international games, and I don't think that there should have been European competitions this season either. Again, money talks, and you can't rely on UEFA or FIFA to take anything like player welfare above and beyond the money. The amount of games they are cramming in, and the intent to still play the '2020' European Championships next Summer just exemplifies that.
On a related note I thought they were too quick to pack people onto planes and let them spread whatever around the World too. If you can't guarantee that someone will be able to visit a country without the rules changing at either end while they are there, then they shouldn't let people fly. If they do let people fly, and they tell them to self isolate when they return, then there should have been a method of monitoring, and enforcing their isolation, or again, don't let people travel abroad, because a lot of people can't be trusted to wear a mask on a Bus or Train, never mind trusted to stay at home when they are supposed to.
One benefit football players have is that they generally don't mingle at airports with the public, and use chartered planes a lot of the time if they do travel abroad.
As for the Fantasy Football, I decided to use my Bench Boost to try and stay off the bottom of both leagues,
and Leicester decided not to use Vardy from the start, so only one point after he came on. Thankfully only Vice Captain, but the way my luck is, I wouldn't be surprised if my Captain Son didn't play the next Spurs game.
Calvert-Lewin will have no points because of the postponed game, and Chel$ki decided not play James and Zouma.
:banghead: Like I said, I can't catch a break atm.