I will be fuming…

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If the football players meant to be self isolating are allowed to play. Gareth Southgate said ‘he’s not sure what the situation will be’. Why not? The law is quite clear - well it certainly seems to be for my child who’s isolated 3 times with no illness and missed 20 days of school for simply wafting past someone who tested positive…..this can’t be allowed to happen. AIBU?

Not quite the same point but I can't go and watch my child's first sports day in a big open field standing well apart from other people but lots of football fans can sit in a stadium together, it pisses me off!!!

Money talks…..

I thought the issue was that Southgate (or someone on his behalf) was trying to work out how close his players were to the Scottish player.
Also it's outside so less chance of the disease transmitting surely? But I agree the whole Scottish team should be isolating.

@VeganVeal

I think after such a hard time after lockdown the Euro's offer some form of happiness, ok there may be a slight risk but I am sure it will be well managed. Schools on the other hand can be a pool of illness spreading and it need so to be controlled.

Play on I say. I'll be there with my rattle and whistle cheering on our brave boys, hurrah!

Brave

I mean, support them if you want but let’s not pretend they’re doing anything more than the job they’re being paid (an awful lot) to do (caveat with they’re not actually being paid a salary for this tournament…although I imagine their endorsement fees have just increased )

There’s nothing particularly brave about kicking a ball around a field is there?

At OP I agree with you, if the kids have to isolate the players should too - we’re constantly being told these people are role models for our youth…they should start acting like it which means they should follow the isolation rules as well.

It’s ridiculous that England players should isolate if the Scottish team is not.

People always bend the rules to make them fit their own agenda. It’s only ‘close contacts’ who need to isolate now so in other words, someone who has sat close to the person for longer than 10 minutes I believe. In my DC’s school the whole class no longer isolates, only the children who sit close to the positive case. The teachers never isolate which makes no sense to me, the positive case in DD’s class sat on the front row so presumably well within 2m of the teacher. I’ve always found the rules totally tedious and pointless. When they started the ‘bubble’ system I just rolled my eyes, of course people are going to say they’re a bubble to get away with rule breaking. I don’t think most people care anymore.

Oh and cases stayed very low for months after schools returned which proves the fact children aren’t the cause, it’s only since pubs have reopened that cases have started rising. Drunk people were never going to distance.

@Ohmygoshandfolly

Oh and cases stayed very low for months after schools returned which proves the fact children aren’t the cause, it’s only since pubs have reopened that cases have started rising. Drunk people were never going to distance.

Well, erm, not really.

It's a bit more complicated than that, as most schools have been quite stringent on sticking to rules, in order to minimise transmission.
Despite best efforts, I suspect a lot of pubs plans have been scuppered by adults, especially once they'd had a drink.

The real reason is the PHE is Public Health England They don't want to risk Scotland beating Croatia and overtaking England so taking Billy Gilmour out disrupts the team after he played a blinder on Friday.

England won't miss Mount and Chilwell hasn't been picked so far.

And yes, I'm joking. I love football but this just takes the piss out of the average care-taking person.

There's a case for saying that shutting down football gives a very clear indication to everybody that things are still rather serious.
There's also a case that football is still very much a national obsession for many, and it helps to lift the spirits of the nation (until we face the Germans).

In truth, it's ultimately going to be about money. It's always been about that - the delicate balance between saving lives in the immediate wake of Covid vs the longer term economic effects which will also affect health matters (as well as lots of other stuff).

Oh, and some profiteering tossed in for good measure.

They can use substitutes - the way we played on Friday, I don’t think it will make much difference anyway!

@VeganVeal

I think after such a hard time after lockdown the Euro's offer some form of happiness, ok there may be a slight risk but I am sure it will be well managed. Schools on the other hand can be a pool of illness spreading and it need so to be controlled.

Play on I say. I'll be there with my rattle and whistle cheering on our brave boys, hurrah!

It’s only a moral boost to football fans though, to the rest of us it’s (another) kick in the teeth right after the G7 one.

And the only “brave boy” is the one that gave Christian Erikson CPR. The rest are just over paid cry babies.

It doesn’t boost my morale to sit in isolation with my child whilst multi millionaires run around a pitch

My kid is isolating after a positive case at football training last week. Someone in a different age group but they played a quick 15 minute game at the end of the session.

I'm really pissed off. I took him out on a bike ride somewhere quiet this afternoon on the grounds that covid must not spread between footballers.

Tbh I would add our politicians and the whole of the G7 that started a huge outbreak in Cornwall.
Clearly they didn’t need to self isolate either with the consequences we all saw.

One rule for certain people and another for the rest of the plebs. Does it matter if we are all struggling?

I think after such a hard time after lockdown the Euro's offer some form of happiness, ok there may be a slight risk but I am sure it will be well managed.

Some bread, some wine and some games.
Thé romans were right. Keep the population entertained and sort if fed and they accept anything.

My kids as well as many others were meant to be isolating....no one cares anymore. The whole thing is a farce and this just proves it. I am no conspiracy nut but this whole lockdown rubbish needs to end.

And now announced there will be 60000 at Wembley for the semi's and the final but still we can't dance aces at outdoor events

They've given up any pretence that its about anything but money now

Sorry but football is very important so we gotta do everything possible to win.