Well that's just screwed over the smaller clubs even more. Carabao Cup: Tottenham handed bye into fourth round after Leyton Orient tie called off - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54295512I think there's a genuine risk now that clubs try to hide covid cases amongst their players if they get penalised for doing the right thing.
Have we actually had any postive cases in the squad since resumption?Seems we've surprisingly got off lightly compared to majority of clubs so far unless we've just not released details to the press.
Quote from: Ad@m on September 25, 2020, 11:17:33 AMWell that's just screwed over the smaller clubs even more. Carabao Cup: Tottenham handed bye into fourth round after Leyton Orient tie called off - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54295512I think there's a genuine risk now that clubs try to hide covid cases amongst their players if they get penalised for doing the right thing.Interested to see if the same rules will apply to Newcastle if they have to call it off.If we don't get awarded the win, Leyton Orient would have a very good case for saying that they've been severely wronged.If we do get awarded the win, then for us goal difference will cease to matter. Suppose they did award the tie 8-0 to us ... if we missed out on champions league football by a 1 or 2 goal difference, we could realistically argue that had we played Newcastle's youth team with our fully fit first team, we might well have beaten them 11-0.The FA have placed themselves in a very awkward position IMO.
ChronicleLive understands there is no set number of confirmed Covid cases that the Magpies would need to record before appealing to rearrange the fixture. Requests for postponement are considered on a case-by-case basis by the Premier League, and there is no official deadline for United to lodge an appeal by. Any decision would be made by the Premier League's board.