With the last games cancelled, some at the last minute called for a “breaker”, a match suspension.
Incredibly, the Premier League has just announced 40 cases of coronavirus, more than double the record as the new strain takes over the elite.
Should the games take place or is there a pause? In the end, what is the number one objective of emergency regulations: to ensure the continuity of the festival or to protect players?
South America gives an example of how this has been addressed: for the credit of administrators, there has been little or no manipulation with attempts to bring enthusiasts back to the stadiums, including in Brazil, where President Bolsonaro and his Ministry of Health have allowed the land to involve 30% of its capacity.
Still, matches are played behind closed doors. But they played.
In Brazil, there were times when more than 18 players from the same team tested positive, and the game took place.
In the Brazilian league and in the Copa Libertadores, the South American Champions League, steps have been taken to ensure that clubs never want to cancel.
The duration of the has been more than 40 or 50, with junior players rising to fill in the gaps, avoiding any justification that the clubs are too short to move forward with the game.
In September, Flamengo of Brazil had an eruption of Covid in his holiday camp to Ecuador for two Liberator parties.
The second, which is detached from the gravity of the stage, was positioned in Guayaquil, a coast that the city traumatized by its own coronavirus outbreak at the beginning of the pandemic.
The local fitness government canceled the adjustment, but they were crushed by tension from above.
The adjustment took place, as did Flamengo’s next league match in Palmeiras the following weekend, legal action was taken to postpone it.
They failed because the rules in Brazil, which were registered by the clubs, were designed to keep the championship going as planned.
Stacking matches is bad enough, having to rearrange cancelled games due to Covid.
But there are dangers in this, well highlighted through the story of Santos Raniel’s striker.
He was a victim of the club’s coronavirus outbreak in early September. As soon as he was given the green light, he returned to action: on a one-week plane for a long flight to Ecuador, on a plane the following week for a shorter flight to Paraguay.
A few days after his return, he suffered from thrombosis and had to go through surgery, at the age of 24.
Covid has consequences, even on athletes at their physical best, on what the Premier League might have to think about.
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