That’s awful. 
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If there aren’t real consequences for this, it will happen again and the outcome might be very different.
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Abergavenny finished in fourth place, but are going to be relegated and replaced by a team that doesn’t even exist yet. Aberystwyth finished bottom, but get to stay in the Premier Womens League.
How is that fair?
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Because money. Remember the breakaway in the men’s game that fan protest stopped?
It was going to make teams which didn’t qualify on merit permanent fixtures in the replacement for the European cup because they can earn more. Or any time leagues don’t allow promotion because the ground isn’t big enough.
I’d say that once sport meets money it’s inherently corrupt but then I think of GAA…
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Technically, that tiny blue dot has to share the two senators with millions more in the same state…so it’s even worse.
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This sounds like what happened with the expansion of the English men’s First Division in 1919, when Arsenal bribed their way in ahead of Tottenham. The anger over this has never gone away.
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I had a slight cold a bit more than two weeks ago. Caught it from a child. Child sneezed, ran a fever, vomited, I helped as I could. Started sneezing myself a day later, and felt a bit off, had some muscle pain and a headache That was all. All tests (in a high frequency, i.e. at first one a day, then every other day, different lateral flow tests, both professional and self-applied) negative. Went as it came, quickly. My partner caught the initial rhinitis as well, now has a ootitis. (And got vaccinated today. Tomorrow is going to be… Interesting.)
During the rhinitis I felt weakened. It is ups and downs since then, but I developed a slight sinusitis last week which is systemically challenging. Can’t walk for more than 1000 steps without developing a pulse around 100, which feels like 160. I can’t work for more than 15 min straight without being mentally exhausted, and I am WFH at a desk. The good news is my electrocardiogram today looks as it should. But even writing this took me nearly half an hour.
What the heck. Fuck today, this needs to go away. I am needed tomorrow. (See above…)
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The Euro 2020 game betweeen Finland and Denmark has been abandoned. Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch.
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WTF? I hope he’s okay…
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He was getting CPR on the pitch so it’s not great.
Awful thing.
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The reports I’m getting is that he is conscious
Christian Eriksen: It has been confirmed that the 29-year-old Danish midfielder has been taken to hospital and stabilised after collpasing on the pitch of the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen moments before half-time. There are photos of a conscious Eriksen being stretchered off the pitch, wearing an oxygen mask and with his eyes open.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that either Eriksen or one of the medics treating him – and hats off to them, by the way – gave fans the thumbs-up as he left the pitch.
The Danish FA have just reported that Eriksen is “awake”. Thank God for that.
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I guess they’ll report when we have a cause of his collapse… but yeah, @robertmckenna an awful thing indeed. These are young men who are supposed to be in their prime health, so when something like this happens, it seems much worse.
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There was supposed to be a UEFA statement ten minutes ago, but it is late. I think it is certain that Finland-Denmark will be rearranged for another day, no-one there is capable of finishing the match whether they are Danish, Finnish or the referees. The question is whether Belgium-Russia will go ahead, at least three of Eriksens teammates and former teammates are playing in that (Romelu Lukaku, Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen).
England have cancelled all press meetings, Harry Kane is obviously worried about his former teammate.
It doesn’t look as bad as Fabrice Muamba nine years ago, but that was pretty much the worst I could imagine anyone recovering from, he had 78 minutes of CPR.
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Holy crap! Looks like he retired right after, which was likely a wise move on his part. It must feel awful to work so hard to become a professional player and then have your body betray you like that.
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WTF!
From the Guardian
Wow! In a quite astonishing turn of events, the Danish FA have reported that the game will resume at 7.30pm BST once their players have been reassured that Christian Eriksen is in a stable condition. The last four minutes of the first half will be played, followed by a five-minute half-time break and then the second half. Belgium v Russia will also go ahead.
UEFA needs to have it’s money, I guess.
ETA:
I find it hard to believe that request wasn’t coerced.
Further edit:
From the BBC live reporting
It’s certainly not being played at the tempo it was beforehand. Understandably so.
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