March International Break - Covid Quarantine

[Brizzle]

Saw this mentioned somewhere on Twitts.

There is an international break at the end of March and the South American players are going to get hit with a 10/14 day quarantine stay when they fly back (unless some sort of exemption is made).

Surely this is grounds to decline the games for us? Brazil play on 25th and 31st March meaning our players would miss fixtures against Arsenal and Villa on return.

I'm pissed just thinking about it.

 

[Dreambeliever]

That would be a disaster.

 

[Bradley]

Can we just test them as soon as they return and call it good?

 

[Modo]

It's qualifiers so we can't stop them from going.
A lot can change between now and then. If it stays the same, yeah we're in trouble. I hope the covid situation is better then.

 

[Brizzle]

It's qualifiers so we can't stop them from going.
A lot can change between now and then. If it stays the same, yeah we're in trouble. I hope the covid situation is better then.

The UK is limited travel to and from certain countries - I don't see why we can't do this. It interferes with our season. I'll be pretty disappointed if we don't find a way to stop it. I haven't looked at all fixtures but I suspect same would apply for Portugal (Jota) too.

 

[tombrown]

Yep Jota is also caught up in it

 

[jon545660]

The UK is on track to have vaccinated all the priority groups by the beginning of April, so things should start opening up from there. I would think international quarantine rules would be one of the first things to be eased.

 

[Brizzle]

The UK is on track to have vaccinated all the priority groups by the beginning of April, so things should start opening up from there. I would think international quarantine rules would be one of the first things to be eased.

surely the things protecting against new strains would be the last?

open up hospitality and offices for those in the UK before we start letting new strains spread around again

 

[King Binny]

 

[rurikbird]

I guess that’s it then - problem solved.

 

[Markeh]

Maybe we should let bobby go as a gesture of good will

 

[refugee]

surely the things protecting against new strains would be the last?

You are giving Boris wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much credit.