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In Germany, Bundesliga side FC Cologne have announced tonight 3 positive COVID-19 cases after the squad and coaching staff were tested on Thursday at training.

They are symptom-free but will spend 14 days in quarantine.

Group training will continue.
 
Well surprise surprise more players in Germany testing positive after the resumption of training ??‍♂️??‍♂️??‍♂️
 
I commend Frank Lampard for saying, "it would not sit well with him if Premier League players and staff receive Covid-19 tests while frontline health workers cannot access them."
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1256659679549239296
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I both feel and completely agree with any clubs who are against the 'neutral grounds' idea.

It completely changes the integrity of the competition over 2/3'rd's in which can't be seen as anything other than wrong. As unprecedented as these times are.

There's going to be a LOT more negotiating here you feel before they get anywhere near a proper plan for starting again.

That said, something will have to give as clubs are in danger of going to the wall before much longer. And not just lower down the food chain either.
 
This will be bad if the remove relegation and promotion. Considering the amount of money that is in play and law suits that can follow. There must be some compromise made. Relegate bottom 2 and promote top2. Or promote top 2 and dont relegate anybody, thus having more games next season but relegating 5 clubs to even up the structure again.
 
There goes Gordon Taylor talking out of his backside again. Why is that even getting media traction when it clearly would never happen?

And I withdraw my earlier sympathy for teams against losing home advantage when they then turn around and are sound with it so long as there's no relegation.

F them!
 

David Ornstein

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EXCLUSIVE: Club doctors sent email to Premier League on Mon listing around 100 concerns/questions they want addressing on Return to Training protocol, most notably “How can we ‘approve’ guidelines that still carry risk of death?”. Full story @TheAthleticUK https://theathletic.com/1795127/2020/05/05/coronavirus-doctors-training-project-restart-death-spit-testing-virus-football-medics-100-point-letter/?source=emp_shared_article …
 
Merkel confirmed today that German league is free to resume end of May. Think other top leagues will hold fire till after that to see how it goes.
 
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