CanucksTraveller
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Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
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Delighted, I should think. It's EUFA's version of the Texaco Cup and during a busy season about as welcome as a dose of the clap.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Agreed, I doubt anyone in the club or following it will be heartbroken about us being booted out.
Apparently we are considering an appeal, so I suppose the thinking might be that having played every group game except one, we might as well bash on with it if we can.
Conte has also made a difference, so our chances of doing well in the next stage have improved.
I'm amazed that literally NOTHING has been done about the Boxing day fixtures.
All I saw last week was two young ladies with clip-boards being roundly ignored or patronised by everyone they plucked up the courage to ask "Have you had your vaccinat....." and that was it. George mentioning over the tannoy that we were supposed to be wearing masks under the concourse - I'd say somewhere between 1-3% were complying - and you'd have thought it was 2018 all over again. It will undoubtedly be the same on Boxing day in L4 and, I assume, every other stadium being used in England on that day. Of course, the idiots who are 'in charge' haven't helped their cause here!
My medical background and compliance with all regulations in order to do my job mean I take it more seriously than most but it still came as an unpleasant surprise.
And since parliament won't be meeting until the 27th, the round of games on the 28th will almost certainly be the same as Boxing Day's.
And then it will be behind closed doors or very limited crowds, there won't be any half-way house here. It's going to be zero restrictions becoming a major clamp-down from the third-round of the FA cup for the rest of the season because once it's brought in, it won't release its grip easily.
All I saw last week was two young ladies with clip-boards being roundly ignored or patronised by everyone they plucked up the courage to ask "Have you had your vaccinat....." and that was it. George mentioning over the tannoy that we were supposed to be wearing masks under the concourse - I'd say somewhere between 1-3% were complying - and you'd have thought it was 2018 all over again. It will undoubtedly be the same on Boxing day in L4 and, I assume, every other stadium being used in England on that day. Of course, the idiots who are 'in charge' haven't helped their cause here!
My medical background and compliance with all regulations in order to do my job mean I take it more seriously than most but it still came as an unpleasant surprise.
And since parliament won't be meeting until the 27th, the round of games on the 28th will almost certainly be the same as Boxing Day's.
And then it will be behind closed doors or very limited crowds, there won't be any half-way house here. It's going to be zero restrictions becoming a major clamp-down from the third-round of the FA cup for the rest of the season because once it's brought in, it won't release its grip easily.
PaulSB
Squire
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Which club was this at? I'm a Blackburn Rovers season ticket holder and last Saturday every fan, home and away, was required to show a Covid pass. I can be certain this was applied to the Birmingham fans as well because our car park is at the away end and we have to walk by the away support to get in. Every fan I saw was compliant and everyone was in a slow moving but orderly queue. I think the vast majority of fans were in the ground in time for kick off.
To my mind Rovers took the situation very seriously and applied the rule above and beyond the published minimum level of 20% though it is the local health authority that has the final say on the percentage to be inspected.
The clue is in there. It was in the Anfield area of Liverpool - although I'm not disclosing which club it was! But it was the exact opposite for us in attendance there. I assumed - wrongly it turned out - that it would be exemplary, like at Blackburn, and we'd been led to believe it would be, but it most definitely wasn't. I took the steward on the turnstile to task about it and asked him why he'd found the time to search me (they only do that if you turn up early and disappear once the queue starts to mount) but couldn't ask to see vaccination status or have it made mandatory in your phone to allow access through the automated barrier system. 'Are you kidding me? We're all on minimum wage for this so we're not going to ask supporters to do something new because they'd argue with us about it.' was his answer. Our club took it seriously - in spirit only and didn't apply it in reality. I have colleagues and mates who informed me they'd found the same at the Emtyhad, Stamford Bridge and Old Trafford for the last home games there.
PaulSB
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I didn't spot the clue! In regards to the stewards I can have sympathy with the regular people because they aren't paid to do this and might not know what to look at. At Ewood the two stewards who inspected our Covid passes started with "Hello, welcome to Ewood Park" - I am serious - and then closely examined the passes on my phone even asking me to enlarge them to be readable. They had both worked the system at Manchester airport. It was clear the inspecting stewards were brought in for the day as all the usual guys we see every week were in their usual spots.
Before going to the game I had anticipated only a percentage of fans would be stopped and while I only saw the away end, the disabled entrance we use for my son is near that stand, it's hard to imagine it would have been different elsewhere around the ground. I expected to see fans arguing but there was no sign of this. I was both surprised and pleased and feel rather proud of my club for taking the whole issue very seriously.
It's disappointing to learn clubs with far greater resources are not doing the same.
when did the covid passes come into play at sports events in england??
vickster
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December 15 according to Sky Sports if 10k+ spectators
https://www.skysports.com/football/...premier-league-matches-under-new-plan-b-rules
https://www.skysports.com/football/...premier-league-matches-under-new-plan-b-rules
PaulSB
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December 15th when three PL games were the first to introduce the new rules. The basic rule, and I'm not going to find the official link, is for venues with attendance of 10,000 spectators or more and applies to PL and EFL championship clubs. I haven't looked in to Leagues 1 and 2.
Here's a Sky Sports link for you
Stephenite
Membå
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Continuing the series - Heroes of Yesteryear.
Here's the team i first became fully aware of as a child. Man Utd's FA CUp winning side from 1977
... aaah the memories...
Here's the team i first became fully aware of as a child. Man Utd's FA CUp winning side from 1977
... aaah the memories...
Bike Tyson
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Congratulations to the St Mirren under 21's who had to be introduced to what was left of the first team.
Celtic result has been voided !
One of the wee boys playing for St Mirren should of been in bed by 9 o'clock!
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PaulSB
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You very nearly caught me with that one.........I did wonder if it had been voided and thought about checking the BBC Sport app.
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