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Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Stade Rennais FC

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by PleaseNotPoll, Sep 14, 2021.

  1. "Thanks for that Brian"

    "Thanks for that Brian" Well-Known Member

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    3-0 to Rennes then?
     
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  4. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    Common Sense 1 - 0 Complete Madness
     
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    Postponed

    Likely getting played in mid-to-late January, and luckily we won't have a glut of fixtures at that...oh wait, yes we will. ****
     
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    Think they have to be played by December 31st or has that been extended?
     
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    Don't the rules state that the ties have to be complete by the end of the month? The statement does not refer to UEFA at all (only the Health Security Agency), so UEFA will have to decide something. This could be to give permission to stage the tie outside of the current limit, or insist it is played within it. One of the other options seems off the table though. Rennes haven't called it off, we have, so in the event of not playing presumably it can only count against us.
     
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  8. humanbeingincroydon

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    I hope (and that's a word doing some heavy lifting...) that UEFA have the sense to wait for Covid to burn itself out in our squad, rather than demand the beaches remain open for the 4th of July
     
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  9. Citizen Kane.

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    Yes and Rennes start their Ligue 1 winter break on Dec 22nd so unless UEFA discover common sense (time travel is likely to be discovered first), I don't see how this fixture can be fulfilled.
     
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    It’ll get done somehow I think. I’m sure I remember a precedent for a continental team playing a European fixture (or was it a Club World Cup or something like that) over their winter break but can’t recall what it was exactly.
     
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  11. Diego

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    Just because their League shuts down doesn't mean it should interfere with the CL.
    Most (all) leagues are shut when the WC is played.
     
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    It's becoming clear that the club took the decision to call off today's game unilaterally. As I said yesterday, I'm all for that. This is about people's health and nothing that UEFA do, or Rennes say, is going to convince me that calling the game off was and is, the wrong decision.

    It's a real shame that we seem to have told Rennes that the game was going ahead before they travelled yesterday afternoon, only to have called it off by the time they arrived. It would have been so much better if we'd actually made the decision early enough to get them onside, because despite their chagrin, they can't want to expose their players to an opposition who might very well contain players with the virus, which is creating mayhem at our club. They've no interest in playing this game, having won the group already and will push for it to declared as Spurs failing to fulfil the fixture.

    It seems likely that the PL will postpone our next few fixtures, which is only right. I get that UEFA run a cup competition but it's not beyond their capability to have acted better in protecting the interests of the players above those of television and corporate sponsors. That they didn't, says all you need to know about their priorities...

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    Just push the Southampton game on the 28th back a week and play it then.
    Also, **** UEFA and **** Rennes, the clogging, whiny ****ers.
     
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    I suspect that a Spurs exit from the ECL is now "decision by default" .
    The club cannot credibly deal with the imminent PL fixture pile-up + the
    two ECL KO qualifier ties that would ensue from finishing 2nd in the group.

    Ultimately this is ALL on the on-pitch personnel who collectively
    turned the ECL campaign into a sh*t show and not qualifying top
    of the group rendering the Rennes game a "dead rubber" .
     
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    Well you can get ****ed Rennes

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    That statement is the sort of thing that gives bitch ass punks a bad name.
     
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    Rennes are now harrumphing about not accepting a new date for the fixture

    3-0 win to us, then
     
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    **** knows why: https://www.skysports.com/stade-rennes-fixtures
    It's not like they're going to have trouble fitting it in.
     
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