So which one is it? They have to play with 14 non infected players or we will let you next week?
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So which one is it? They have to play with 14 non infected players or we will let you next week?
That's not surprising as you can see it happening, but also astonishing that it's not been publicised.
Apparently Villa don't have any spare match days to accommodate a postponement this month, so they surely must either play the kids or forfeit the tie.
Yes. Amazing it hasn't already sparked widespread complaints, or at least debates.
The number of penalties awarded for handball since the start of last month has returned to pre-VAR levels in the Premier League as a result of referees being permitted to use their discretion.
In the first month of the season record numbers of spot kicks were being given for handball as referees followed to the letter rules laid down by Fifa and the game’s lawmaking body, the International FA Board (Ifab).
Six penalties were awarded for handball in September in the first 28 games of the season — one every 4.7 games, and the same as the total given in 380 matches in the 2017-18 season.
After an outcry from players, managers and pundits, Mike Riley, the managing director of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the referees’ body, approached Ifab at the end of September asking for permission to soften the officials’ approach and take into account the context of each incident.
The Uefa president, Aleksander Ceferin, also wrote to his Fifa counterpart, Gianni Infantino, raising concerns about the new handball interpretation being used alongside VAR.
Ifab gave the green light for referees to use their discretion and the guidance for English officials stated that handball should not be given if the player’s hand or arm is in an expected position for their stance or movement.
As a result, there was only one handball penalty in the Premier League in October, three in November and two in the 70 top-flight matches played since the start of December — one every 35 games.
This also explains why appeals for handball, such as the incident involving Southampton’s Jack Stephens against Liverpool on Monday, are being waved away when they would probably have led to a penalty in September. Officials took the view, in this case, that Stephens’s arm had been in a natural position and that he did not have time to react to the ball.
A PGMOL source said: “The new guidance from Ifab has clearly helped and there were quite a few incidents over Christmas where the ball struck players’ hands without penalties being given because their arms were part of the expected body shape".
That usually happens when you die in such circumstances, you go all fat and bloated. People then write epitaphs about how amazing you were, when we all know it's a load of bollocks.
Typical FA to schedule a decision about a fixture 4 days after it is due to happen ...
Keita needs a Weekend at Bernie's treatment. Hendo and Milner should just run around holding him up and then throw him in the air at corners and stuff like that. It would at least be more entertaining than the last match.
Well the team's due to travel there by bus a few hours before the game so the FA can't leave it THAT late.
As we are playing the FA will probably leave their decision till 19:44.
Is it safe to play this game. From our point of view.
For want of a better place ..
'You don't need votes to be the President but he's the President!'
7-0 will be fine. You just know we'll be firing on all cylinders after that.
Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a "significant" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55575321
I will be so pissed If we don't put seven or more pass Villa they way they did when they played our youths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55575321
I will be so pissed If we don't put seven or more pass Villa they way they did when they played our youths
Thought I'd moved that from this thread to the meltdown one ... bloody TapaTalk, probably controlled by Chinese communists & lame stream mediaFor want of a better place ..
Much less risk of fielding a second string. I wonder if we'd be tempted to play some of our own U23s now too.
-----------Kelleher-----------
Neco---Rhys--Nat---Milner-
------Jones---Clarkson-----
--------------Ox---------------
U23--------Origi-------Taki
-----------Kelleher-----------
Neco---Rhys--Nat---Milner-
------Jones---Clarkson-----
--------------Ox---------------
U23--------Origi-------Taki
They would need to able to score, in the first place, wouldn't you say?
Aston Villa's FA Cup tie with Liverpool on Friday night is expected to go ahead but Wednesday's Premier League game against Tottenham is in doubt after an outbreak of coronavirus in the first-team squad.
Villa are set to be without their entire first team, along with boss Dean Smith and assistants John Terry, Craig Shakespeare and Richard O'Kelly, as they are isolating.
It means the Premier League side will be relying on their U23s and U18s, who were all tested for the virus on Thursday, for the tie to go ahead. Results are being fast-tracked so the club can know by Friday lunchtime.
Villa's U23s coach Mark Delaney will take charge of the team, if the game goes ahead.
Sky Sports News has been told that Villa's hierarchy are hopeful the youth players are clear of the virus.
Yeah, this bit is quite essential for us you know...
Villa are set to be without their entire first team, along with boss Dean Smith and assistants John Terry, Craig Shakespeare and Richard O'Kelly, as they are isolating.
It means the Premier League side will be relying on their U23s and U18s, who were all tested for the virus on Thursday, for the tie to go ahead. Results are being fast-tracked so the club can know by Friday lunchtime.
Villa's U23s coach Mark Delaney will take charge of the team, if the game goes ahead.
Sky Sports News has been told that Villa's hierarchy are hopeful the youth players are clear of the virus.
Yeah, this bit is quite essential for us you know...
No ex-Pence spared.
I must admit I'm puzzled by all the bubbles. One report said that Villa are assembling a squad from all the kids 'outside the first team bubble'. But presumably bubbles are a good thing, so one would hope that all the ones outside one bubble are inside another bubble. But kids seem the least likely to stay inside a bubble. So I just hope they all get tested properly. In their bubble. I'd much prefer us to stay in Liverpool and just have the bye.
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