{"id":6255,"date":"2022-01-17T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/17\/the-latest-on-potential-premier-league-rule-changes-following-arsenal-and-tottenham-controversy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:02:14","slug":"the-latest-on-potential-premier-league-rule-changes-following-arsenal-and-tottenham-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/17\/the-latest-on-potential-premier-league-rule-changes-following-arsenal-and-tottenham-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest on potential Premier League rule changes following Arsenal and Tottenham controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Arsenal vs Tottenham the 21st Postponed Premier League game<\/h2>\n<p>In theory, Arsenal\u2019s request to have the North London Derby postponed should have been a cut and shut case. The 21st postponement of a Premier League season determined to continue in the face of COVID-19, to many it felt a step too far, however.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham certainly felt so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original intention of the guidance\u2026was to deal with player availability directly affected by COVID cases, resulting in depleted squads that, when taken together with injuries, would result in the club being unable to field a team.<\/p>\n<p>We do not believe it was the intent to deal with player availability unrelated to COVID.<\/p>\n<p>We may now be seeing the unintended consequences of this rule.\u201d, the club wrote in an official statement after the news broke.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Club statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1482399055594545153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fact that it was the biggest game of the weekend, combined with the single COVID-19 case that Arsenal registered (they have since registered another), saw many come out and demand that the game be played, including those on Sky Sports\u2019 payroll.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Game off. What started out as postponements due to a pandemic has now become about clubs not having their best team . The Premier League must stop this now , draw a line in the sand and say all games go ahead unless you have an exceptional amount of CV cases . It\u2019s wrong ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gary Neville (@GNev2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GNev2\/status\/1482363599314108416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And while Neville is right in that clubs are using and abusing the rule to their advantage, it is the rules themselves, not the clubs, that have permitted it. Why wouldn\u2019t clubs at least try?<\/p>\n<h2>Rules not set to change<\/h2>\n<p>And now, to the frustration of many, the rules do not seem about to change. Recent events, including the Liverpool Carabao Cup tie also involving Arsenal, albeit on the receiving end this time and the north London Derby have prompted calls for the rules to become more COVID-19 case focused, rather than a \u201ccop out\u201d for those with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>However, as per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/arsenal-liverpool-carabao-cup-tottenham-north-london-derby-b977084.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Evening Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-lcepkR htgpDr\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDespite the backlash, the Premier League currently has no immediate plans to review its rules on match postponements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-lcepkR htgpDr\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Questions around the integrity of the competition have already been asked, but it is thought these would increase even more if the rules on postponements changed during the middle of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This could mean a massive backlog of fixtures come the end of the campaign, with Burnley already five games behind the pace, and Tottenham with four games in hand on current leaders Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Would a more stringent check make sense?<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/african-cup-of-nations-week-1-round-up-liverpool-pair-clash-arsenal-man-heading-home\/\" rel=\"v:url\">African Cup of Nations week 1 round-up: Liverpool pair clash &amp; Arsenal man heading home?<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/premier-league-betting-tips\/burnley-fc-vs-watford-fc-betting-tips-premier-league-preview\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Burnley vs Watford betting tips: Premier League preview, predictions and odds<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal vs Tottenham the 21st Postponed Premier League game In theory, Arsenal\u2019s request to have the North London Derby postponed should have been a cut and shut case. The 21st postponement of a Premier League season determined to continue in the face of COVID-19, to many it felt a step too far, however. Tottenham certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}