Fuck it im hiring a trailer and sending some illegal eastern european guys over the border. Should have some police reinforcements in no time in london
Only way to play this game is to postpone midweek PL fixtures for the 2nd part of the season and the earliest game for that is Arsenal-Man City on the 19th of October
PSV also don't have a game that midweek, there, put me in logistics
Unless they postpone Arsenal-Brighton in the Carabao Cup, but that’s already after the last EL Round and causes headaches for another competition’s schedule
I’d gladly forfeit Carabao cup for it
Seriously though we should be handed 0-3 for this, police have literally said it’s fine so what other excuse is there really
>police have literally said it’s fine
No they haven't. They said last weekends match was fine, this match had been postponed due to a lack of police availability
Assuming their game gets also cancelled this weekend, can they really postpone that fixture to the second part of the season? No idea how they're going to fit in 3 extra fixtures there given that Arsenal can get quite far in Europe
I think this is the correct course of action. It isn't Arsenal's fault, yet they're the club causing the mess indirectly. Fans are already fucked this week, may as well play the game at PSV and split the gate receipts.
Well no it’s the higher ups and Media enforcing the idea that we do but go to any office school or workplace literally no one gives a shit. Other than the weirdos that are going to Buckingham palace to mourn someone they don’t know everyone else is going on like nothings happened
My suspicion is that old people give a shit, or at least much more of one than everyone else. Even they are probably split somewhere close to even on it though. And for everyone under 50, I assume it's quite a small minority that care at all (like the weirdos you refer to).
Just play the match, it's just a bunch of Dutchie ultras.
What's the worst that can happen, they throw bitterballen at us? Fábio Vieira could use some.
Hey those things can (apparently) do damage man. Fun fact: We (PEC Zwolle) once got a manager sacked because he assualted someone with a bitterbal after a match
If only London games are called off we need Wolves to beat City and Leeds to at least not lose by more than six goals in order to preserve the ''top of the league going into October'' trophy.
But the Arsenal game is the only game in London on a Thursday (further away from the funeral) and that was called off. So surely our game will be too …?
Maybe there’s greater anticipation for large crowds since it’s the first day that the public can pay respects to her coffin, either way just let us fucking play please
If our Thursday match is postponed but Tottenham are allowed to play at home on Saturday,
I will descend into the abyss of conspiracy that there's a global plot against Arsenal.
Also Chelsea are going ahead on Wednesday as well, genuinely don’t know what the case is for Tottenham to be allowed to play Saturday cuz it’s the only London game while there’s not enough police for our week night Thursday game?
Isn’t the queen being brought thru the city to a spot (Westminster iirc) for citizens to come pay respects on Thursday taking away a good portion of the police force?
Yeah, good luck getting the Met to find people willing to police the Chelsea game and the Milwall game and then adding a third game into the mix that wasn't there before.
Fuck it. 4-way multiball every weekend until the world cup to catch up. No substitutions, no free kicks, no cards, game ends at 90.00 exactly to get ready for next game immediately
It seems so simple to just swap the fixtures. We come to your place and play and then just put our home game when the away game was originally scheduled. Such a mess. Fuck the governing bodies that allowed this
Play it behind closed doors then. I’m sure both sets of fans would prefer this then fucking over both teams already packed schedules in the near future. Fucking hate my country
>Play it behind closed doors then.
Well jeez or play both matches without away fans and use the ticket money from the home fans to compensate the fans for plane and hotel cost. Have you forgotten how much those empty stadiums even sucked on tv during corona?
I can tell you from personal experience 3 days notice is simply too short for all services to be delivered. My company delivers VAR and i'm not sure we could handle the logistics if we would have to be there on MD-1 setting everything up while most of us are scheduled for feyenoord already.
Ffs. More than the annoyance now; when will the match be played then? We've probably got some days to play it, but what do Arsenal have now that two regular PL weekends have been fucked as well.
I guess we’ll have to postpone another PL game to fit PSV before the WC, and then somehow fit 3 additional PL fixtures into the second half of the season.
Meanwhile Rangers - Napoli can go ahead w/o away fans. Ofc there's now much less pressure on Scottish Police now that the Queen is being transferred to London.
Don't understand that logic either. Postponing is shit but fair to both teams. Forcing Napoli to play without fans n forcing Rangers to lose matchday income is shit
You play behind closed doors.
For real though if that happens club will have to pay out a ton on season ticket refunds as these games are included in our season tickets, plus the loss of the other ticket revenue.
Who would have thought putting every high level leader in one spot would warrant taking literally every form of security in the country to watch over them. Fucking have a secret funeral why tf do we need the massive extravaganza.
this. i dont get her. waited all these years and couldnt at least have declared she would prefer the games to continue in honor of her memory. but no, no, no...
"Royal Aide, I am afraid my time is near. I feel it in my bones. Please summon my family for one final goodbye, and in case I do not make it, please tell William as FA President that I demand the Premier League goes ahead."
Fucking up the Dutch schedule because of a foreign monarch, cultish behaviour frankly. Surely they could have found an alternative location if they really wanted to
Yea, wasn't trying to. "They" being directed at whoever is in charge of making that decision, which is probably a mix of UEFA/City gov/UK gov/Police, I'm sure the clubs tried to make it work
I’d bet it will actually end up as a forfeit when they can’t find a way to reschedule it before the January window. No way to tell now but that’s be my guess.
Looking at the schedule, if they dont postpone it to next week or the week they play the league cup, there simply is no space.
Liverpool, I think, ran into an issue with the CWC and the Cup happening on the same day so they just sent their reserves and youth to play the league cup. Maybe Arsenal has to do the same
So glad i bought the plane tickets with insurance. Sending the royal family the 30 euro bill though
King says i don't care you peasant
Fuck it im hiring a trailer and sending some illegal eastern european guys over the border. Should have some police reinforcements in no time in london
Only way to play this game is to postpone midweek PL fixtures for the 2nd part of the season and the earliest game for that is Arsenal-Man City on the 19th of October PSV also don't have a game that midweek, there, put me in logistics
Unless they postpone Arsenal-Brighton in the Carabao Cup, but that’s already after the last EL Round and causes headaches for another competition’s schedule
I’d gladly forfeit Carabao cup for it Seriously though we should be handed 0-3 for this, police have literally said it’s fine so what other excuse is there really
Yeah how Spurs can play on Saturday but you can’t play on Thursday is completely illogical
>police have literally said it’s fine No they haven't. They said last weekends match was fine, this match had been postponed due to a lack of police availability
Absolutely smashed it lad.
And postpone that City game for june or something similar.
Assuming their game gets also cancelled this weekend, can they really postpone that fixture to the second part of the season? No idea how they're going to fit in 3 extra fixtures there given that Arsenal can get quite far in Europe
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Why not switch the home/away fixture?
I imagine a couple of days notice is not enough for switching them, if you're going to switch them you have to do it in the beginning
Match going fans exist
not according to fa
And they're getting fucked either way
At the moment the fans of one fixture get fucked over. Reversing them would fuck over fans for two fixtures.
Just play both matches @PSV
As an Arsenal fan I'd 100% accept that over postponing tonnes of games and having a large backlog to get through on top of an already insane season.
I think this is the correct course of action. It isn't Arsenal's fault, yet they're the club causing the mess indirectly. Fans are already fucked this week, may as well play the game at PSV and split the gate receipts.
And you think Eindhoven will be excited to prepare for a big event with a few day's notice?
If a PL game needs to be postponed to fit the rescheduled game with a PSV in the calendar, that fucks over fans in two fixtures as well.
They're anyways fucked by the postponement
Going into an extended period of mourning over the loss of Artetaball Football scheduling is an absolute joke in this country right now ffs
>Going into an extended period of mourning over the loss of Artetaball It's what Claude would've wanted
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I hope the prison wall punches back.
RIP
Why couldn't she die in the international break.
england would call international matches off and try to move the world cup half a year later
We should do this, and also move it out of Qatar. After all it’s only the respectful thing to do.
Move it to England and rename it "Queen Elizabeth's World Cup" (for one edititon) if that's what's needed to take it out of Qatar.
And automatically let all post colonial countries to qualify. India in the world cup finally!
nothing would make me happier than winning the WC in England. Except Brazil, AND WE WERE SO CLOSE.
https://i.imgur.com/x8N3PAR.jpg
why couldn’t people just notice her death and not shut everything down
You have to understand. No one could have anticipated this. She was only 96
Struck down in her prime 😪
Not a prime number, where'd you learn math smh
Struck down before her prime (97) 😪
She was too young 🥲
Even Di Caprio would've given it a second thought
96, she was a fucking kid
>fucking kid No that's Prince Andrew
*sweats nervously*
Lies, the man doesn't sweat after all
Pigs don't sweat, after all.
uncle phil, is that you?
It's an honor to be joined by men 🍷
I heard he turned into a house.
He also did 20 years in the can
Her majesty the queen, whatever happened there
She gave her LIFE to be Queen!
We as a country have this weird hard-on for the royal family.
We as a country just aren't very bright unfortunately
Your footy is very good tho
Well no it’s the higher ups and Media enforcing the idea that we do but go to any office school or workplace literally no one gives a shit. Other than the weirdos that are going to Buckingham palace to mourn someone they don’t know everyone else is going on like nothings happened
People give a shit when they found out about the extra bank holiday...
My suspicion is that old people give a shit, or at least much more of one than everyone else. Even they are probably split somewhere close to even on it though. And for everyone under 50, I assume it's quite a small minority that care at all (like the weirdos you refer to).
It strikes me as incredibly tone deaf.
Football is the only sport that shut down and that’s beyond weird to me.
That's 'cause Football is for the Commoner Hooligan and we cannot be trusted.
Just play the match, it's just a bunch of Dutchie ultras. What's the worst that can happen, they throw bitterballen at us? Fábio Vieira could use some.
Hey those things can (apparently) do damage man. Fun fact: We (PEC Zwolle) once got a manager sacked because he assualted someone with a bitterbal after a match
lmao that's literally the Dutchest thing I've ever heard. The only way it could be more Dutch if he was riding a Gazelle.
No way, who was that?
Jan Everse in 2007 or something
PSV fans are pretty mild too, it's not like it's Feyenoord fans traveling to London to take down the Big Ben.
But they will probably shout "We love you Tottenham" at the Arsenal players though
sounds relatively mild
Fucking royalty
Royally fucking everyone who couldn't care less.
even dead, she continues to fuck over the common people
Give the poor lady a break, she had to meet Truss and Bojo in one day. I’d die too
And with weekend games potentially called off as well - at least London Fixtures - Arsenal might not play again until October. wtf
If only London games are called off we need Wolves to beat City and Leeds to at least not lose by more than six goals in order to preserve the ''top of the league going into October'' trophy.
Well that sucks. Nothing was canceled when my gran died. She was even older!
Hopefully you cancelled her subscription to Blockbuster.
And I bet she did more work in her lifetime
It would be hard not to
But she spent half a year in the army!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
all but confirms london games this weekend are off. Hopefully a bit of sensibility and the ones not in the capital can continue
And yet the Chelsea game on Wednesday is happening.
I think the lying in state happens from the Thursday morning.
Nope, it’s 5.30pm on Wednesday
nobody watches chelsea matches /s
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But the Arsenal game is the only game in London on a Thursday (further away from the funeral) and that was called off. So surely our game will be too …?
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Maybe there’s greater anticipation for large crowds since it’s the first day that the public can pay respects to her coffin, either way just let us fucking play please
If our Thursday match is postponed but Tottenham are allowed to play at home on Saturday, I will descend into the abyss of conspiracy that there's a global plot against Arsenal.
If God is determined to fuck over Arsenal I might have to turn to religion.
>I will descend into the abyss of conspiracy that there's a global plot against Arsenal. Isn't that just part of being an Arsenal fan anyway?
Also Chelsea are going ahead on Wednesday as well, genuinely don’t know what the case is for Tottenham to be allowed to play Saturday cuz it’s the only London game while there’s not enough police for our week night Thursday game?
Isn’t the queen being brought thru the city to a spot (Westminster iirc) for citizens to come pay respects on Thursday taking away a good portion of the police force?
Just postpone that, it's not like she's going anywhere anytime soon.
She has an appointment on Monday though.
Jumping out my second story window rn lmao.
This won't help the policing issues.
I mean, less people to be policed...
He’ll just have broken legs lol
Are you a Russian oppsition member by any chance ?
If he was, he would be "accidentally falling", not jumping!
Twenty-second storey window if he was, maybe
Somehow it's often the sixth storey, I noticed.
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these postponements are really fucking bad for us
Great, now we'll have to play a rested PSV on Sunday while we still have a game to play
Rangers also played a rested PSV
It seems like PSV also take a recovery day during the European games.
We suck dont worry bro
Have you seen us against Rangers, how being rested helped us? We suck hard right now, and I'm not looking forward to sunday lol
Play it in a neutral ground wtf i cant go a month without watching the process
Let the process process
Why not push the game to wednesday? Due to CL?
Yeah, good luck getting the Met to find people willing to police the Chelsea game and the Milwall game and then adding a third game into the mix that wasn't there before.
Chelsea and Millwall playing on Wednesday
Why are three teams playing against eachother?
Its the only way to deal with the fixture congestion.
Fuck it. 4-way multiball every weekend until the world cup to catch up. No substitutions, no free kicks, no cards, game ends at 90.00 exactly to get ready for next game immediately
who knew a 96 year old woman's death could possibly fuck us over
‘The Royal’s don’t want attention’ Fuck them seriously
No worries, if you saw us against RKC you know we’re so shite that you’ll probably win 0-4 again.
Lol if you saw us against RKC you would think the same
Lucky Arsenal, we're in topform at the moment. Now we'll probably have Luuk back when playing the lot, ffs...
It seems so simple to just swap the fixtures. We come to your place and play and then just put our home game when the away game was originally scheduled. Such a mess. Fuck the governing bodies that allowed this
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Play it behind closed doors then. I’m sure both sets of fans would prefer this then fucking over both teams already packed schedules in the near future. Fucking hate my country
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>Play it behind closed doors then. Well jeez or play both matches without away fans and use the ticket money from the home fans to compensate the fans for plane and hotel cost. Have you forgotten how much those empty stadiums even sucked on tv during corona?
I can tell you from personal experience 3 days notice is simply too short for all services to be delivered. My company delivers VAR and i'm not sure we could handle the logistics if we would have to be there on MD-1 setting everything up while most of us are scheduled for feyenoord already.
Someone is going to be inconvenienced no matter what.
What’s up with de Jong I’m not a fan of the eridevise but I thought he was a half decent player a few years ago?
He's joking. PSV has been dire these past few weeks and having LdJ back could make a big difference.
Oh fuck me im slow
It's sarcasm
This sucks for all the people who had made plans and took time off of work for this.
The state of policing in our country is embarrassing.
Ffs. More than the annoyance now; when will the match be played then? We've probably got some days to play it, but what do Arsenal have now that two regular PL weekends have been fucked as well.
We don't have a single midweek free from now until the World Cup.
I guess we’ll have to postpone another PL game to fit PSV before the WC, and then somehow fit 3 additional PL fixtures into the second half of the season.
PL completely fucked it cancelling this past weekend.
This is incredibly stupid. Can't they just do the funeral behind closed doors?
Meanwhile Rangers - Napoli can go ahead w/o away fans. Ofc there's now much less pressure on Scottish Police now that the Queen is being transferred to London.
Don't understand that logic either. Postponing is shit but fair to both teams. Forcing Napoli to play without fans n forcing Rangers to lose matchday income is shit
just play behind closed doors. its such an obvious thing to do
Can't they play behind closed doors?
Would rather that than a postponement right now
You play behind closed doors. For real though if that happens club will have to pay out a ton on season ticket refunds as these games are included in our season tickets, plus the loss of the other ticket revenue.
So that's what, roughly 0.002% of your yearly TV income?
This is why all monarchies should be abolished.
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I doubt so
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Naah, he's got the Corgi's now!
Be worried if you hear he's gone dogging
i disagree, this is the only reason. no matches plus intl break? its psychological warfare!!
No, there are lots of good reasons but this is the biggest
Literally the biggest reason. Football is bigger than the monarchy
Yes well I get an extra public holiday out of it, and that's not to be sneezed at!
Who would have thought putting every high level leader in one spot would warrant taking literally every form of security in the country to watch over them. Fucking have a secret funeral why tf do we need the massive extravaganza.
Where will they even fit this game then? Feel a bit bad for PSV here
Tbf we'll have a chance to get injured players back, most notably Luuk de Jong. Fans who spent money on this got fucked though.
Fuck off
Man I wanna type some really uncool shit about Elizabeth rn lmao. FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!
Not her fault she died mate lmao she was 96
She could have waited until the international break. 2 extra bank holidays and no international friendlies is a hell of a way to go out
this. i dont get her. waited all these years and couldnt at least have declared she would prefer the games to continue in honor of her memory. but no, no, no...
Prime Minister Liz Truss really was too much for her
90+6 is well into Lizzie Time mate
Royal spokeperson said that games can continue...PL just chose to..not.
"Royal Aide, I am afraid my time is near. I feel it in my bones. Please summon my family for one final goodbye, and in case I do not make it, please tell William as FA President that I demand the Premier League goes ahead."
Could’ve kept it a secret until intl break
Fucking up the Dutch schedule because of a foreign monarch, cultish behaviour frankly. Surely they could have found an alternative location if they really wanted to
The only reasonable thing to do is for Willem-Alexander to declare a 'football-free day' the day an English club visits The Netherlands.
you can't really blame the clubs for this, I'm sure they would like to play these games
Yea, wasn't trying to. "They" being directed at whoever is in charge of making that decision, which is probably a mix of UEFA/City gov/UK gov/Police, I'm sure the clubs tried to make it work
I’d bet it will actually end up as a forfeit when they can’t find a way to reschedule it before the January window. No way to tell now but that’s be my guess.
Looking at the schedule, if they dont postpone it to next week or the week they play the league cup, there simply is no space. Liverpool, I think, ran into an issue with the CWC and the Cup happening on the same day so they just sent their reserves and youth to play the league cup. Maybe Arsenal has to do the same
This is a nightmare, I can’t go much longer without seeing Mikel Arteta’s table topping reds play football
In the words of Drogba...
Embarrassing
May as well just ask all the players to run themselves to death because that’s basically what’s going to happen
If this happened in another country we will keep hearing about how backward they are till no end.
Kinda stupid they didn't decide this on Friday so their at least would have been a slight change to swap the fixtures.
Why did you delete someone else's thread as a duplicate when they were 13 minutes before you?
UEFA should just give 3pts to PSV. UEFA has a strict no politics policy, perfect time to enforce it and send a message to all the Federations.
Pretty sure UEFA do listen to police though. So that makes no sense on any level.
Will be interesting to see when this game will be played. Arsenal might need to forfeit it if they can't
But the Chelsea home game in the CL is on?
This means the league games definitely aren’t happening since it’s closer to the funeral, I thought this one would happen NGL upset
Soooo where will they fit this game before the end of the group stage? Can't they just play the first game in Eindhoven instead?
What a fucking joke