Originally Posted by
scientificred
What is the official line if ahead of one of these potentially re-scheduled games a player from a club reports in ill with suspected virus and has gone into self-isolation but has, say the day before, been in close contact with the rest of the team, management staff etc.
This may mean many players or even the whole team also having to go into self-isolation. Would the game have to be postponed ?
That's kind of what I was alluding to in earlier posts about the potential difficulties of completing the season and the Premier League should impose a requirement to see test results of any player or staff member allegedly having tested positively for the virus. As in the circumstances you suggest, it's likely all fixtures would be postponed again.
Anything in which 100's of millions pounds are involved can frequently be subject to skulduggery, for several teams, especially those at threat of relegation or those who have been faltering of late like Leicester or even Chelsea (whose form has picked up though)who may fear they could slip out of the top four, the season being ended as it is and the Premier League applying the Chile precedent that it has been suggested they will would suit them absolutely fine.
Unfortunately, for those teams, as things stand, it is not in their best interests to ensure the league is completed
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