Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Leyton Orient

What happened when Arteta tested positive?

 

The league was shut down I think...after the gooners match with city was postponed.

 

13 Mar 2020
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus and the club's game against Brighton on Saturday has been postponed
Mikel Arteta opens up on positive test · Season stopped after Arsenal manager's coronavirus diagnosis

 

Spanners : ah. bless.
Must have fought so hard to resist Corona infection transmission
potential peaking until the first leg of their 2020-21 cup final.

 

Adding on from Alfie’s tweet

 

I have just purchased a replica Orient shirt to help out, its not much but every little helps.Being from Leyton originally its quite upsetting to see this happen so although we are Spurs fans will anyone else do this.
COYS and the O's

 

Just done it myself. Although black away - red home kit is going too far.

 

Nice one SD, quite understand about the red.

 

Good to see that the Os were trying to resolve the fixture problem.

If anything, I suspect that PL/UEFA money over-rode the EFL
(the consequences to the PL/UEFA if the Spurs squad had a serious
infection outbreak) . Ironic in the case of UEFA, as they are the ones
who have forced Spurs to have so many qualifying fixtures + in a
compressed time window.

 

A bunch of their fans took to Twitter saying their manager has Covid and ours doesn't, presumably...

 

Here's my conspiracy theory for what it's worth.

The EFL want to play the game but a look at the seasons schedule and Chelsea def being in europe means their is no chance to catch up with the oustanding tie till the week the semi is supposed to be played.

Unless spurs lose tonight, then they can fudge it by playing it on tues and the winner play Chelsea on Thursday. They will argue spurs were gonna play tues/thurs if they got through in the Europa and the O's should be grateful they got the game played and maybe another.

If spurs win tonight it's a non starter and they will be given the bye.

I reckon it will be annouched either way tommorow along with the 4th round schedule

 

Dogshit take by Nigel Travis here

 

That's a live stream. Some American chatting about Orient and Covid. Don't know who it is, but it's not Travis.

 

Travis appears about two minutes in

The quote in question is "We made a dumb decision to choose to take the test when other clubs played in the Carabao Cup third round without taking the test, it shows the inconsistencies by the EFL."

 

Spurs have been awarded the tie against Leyton Orient.

Chelsea in round 4 next Tuesday it is

 

As I stated the other day :

1. If the Os have to forfeit the tie, ensure they are financially compensated
to the sum they would have received if the game was broadcast as planned.

2. Spurs make some financial donation from whatever proceeds they make
in the tournament from R3 to their end.

 

Agree with this