Calling games off at 2 hours notice

How long before kick-off are players tested? Is this a standard set by the EFL or up to the individual clubs?

I'm not sure I agree that a team should be made to play, no matter what, fielding youth players if necessary, but postponements just an hour before the game should really be avoidable.

 

Adam Murray calling games off at half 1.

 

I can only speak for BFC, and all of us attending said fixture test as soon as we wake up, with a LFT. Obviously, when everyone is awake depends on whether you are at home, or local away, long trip away, or you’ve spent the night in a hotel. But based on our group chat, everyone is up and tested bright and early. So I really don’t understand why a game ends up being postponed so late, like today at Hull.

If you test positive on a LFT, you aren’t coming. You get a PCR test and stay away. Like Benson did when we went to Bournemouth.

I don’t know what the answer is.

A couple of months back I’d stopped thinking about covid. Thought it was all done with, in terms of it impacting my life. But here we are.

I have a number of friends who tested positive this last couple of days, and a family member who I sat and drank coffee with a couple of days ago. But I don’t have it. I have had 227 LFT’s since this began, 124 PCR’s, and been triple jabbed. I’m surprised my nose doesn’t look like Daniella Westbrook’s.

 

Thank you

That all seems like a very good solution to the problem and I can't understand how that would result in postponing the game so late in the day, which makes me believe the protocol at other clubs isn't so well thought out.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59797335

This is what I was saying should happen the other day. Clubs who have been careful and can play a game shouldn't be punished with a fixture pile up because their opponents are riddled with covid. Games should be played as planned whatever the situation. Make a team bring their under 18s if that's what it takes to play a game and then maybe they will take more care in the future to make sure it doesn't happen again, knowing they can't just call it off if they get X amount of cases.

 

Been to a few Barnsley games at home that were called off at home due to the weather which obviously we have no control over. Remember weather being so bad on one occasion train had to be diverted and then having to spend two hours in the snow at Wakefield Kirgate- not the best station to be stranded at.

Also remember Spurs Fa cup game - met a friend who was a Spurs fan off the coach in the bus station - diest she heard the game had been called off was when I informed her. Spent all afternoon with her and some other random Spurs fan in the pub

 

There are definitely clubs fiddling the system to get games called off for a variety of reasons. Stoke are one of them. With the amount of players they have on their books it's inconceivable that they can't name a 14 man squad, however by utilising the EFLs catch all wording of 14 FIT players they can just declare 25 injured players and they've broken no rules because the EFL have given them an out. In reality they've got a few key players out injured.

Completely agree with Wimbledon too. Small businesses are having to operate right now. Businesses with much less staff and yet football clubs with multi million pound player wage bills have to shut the doors because they can't handle it? Rubbish. Covid is the excuse not the reason imo.

Any club who uses covid as an excuse to postpone a game should not be allowed to play any newly signed players in the rearranged games imo