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Norwegian national team aren't allowed to travel from Norway to Romania due to a player having tested positive for Covid-19, which breaks our Corona-laws for self-isolation. Will forfeit the game 0-3. The match against Austria on Wednesday might be done with a team full of reserves not originally called up.

 

The A-Team players are now on commercial flights back to their respective teams around Europe, this instead of on a private flight to Romania - because they can infect so many more people on that private jet.

 

Fucks our chances of promotion to the A-Division, fucks our extra qualifying chance for the 2022 WC, likely placing us in the C-Division, likely give us a harder WC qualifying draw due to lower seeding. It's the most idiotic bullshit I've heard from our government, clearly looking for a high profile example to be made for the general population rather than following the logic of the other 54 countries in Nations League.

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I get the various FA's need money but jesus fucking christ Europe is in the grips of a second wave and they think having players travel all over the place now is a good idea? And yes the same argument can be made for CL and EL being scrapped/paused as well but at least thats more doable as you can have bubbles for each team, with internationals its not possible to put a secure bubble together as you have players coming from various clubs at various levels some who won't have remotely the same kind of steps a top level club can put in place

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Wonder how they're going to prioritise 4000 going to football matches.

 

Presume no away fans

 

Probably a lottery system for season ticket holders, or else longest-serving season ticket holders get priority.

 

Risk with the latter suggestion is if you've had a season ticket for 30 or 40 years there's a good chance you could be in the at risk age group

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Why would it be a finite number rather than a percentage of capacity? This is a close to a fifth of Burnley's capacity, but will be a much smaller fraction of Manchester United's.

 

Guessing it's about reducing risk and those with larger stadiums would typically have people travelling longer distances which would increase risk.

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