[엑스포츠뉴스 김정현 인턴기자] Tottenham reacted unpleasantly to the Premier League secretariat’s response.
British football London said they were offended by Tottenham for the postponement of the 2020/21 Premier League round 16 Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur games scheduled to be held at Craven Cottage on the 31st (Korean time).
The match, scheduled to be held at 6 p.m. local time, was postponed by the secretariat three hours before the start of the match. A number of corona 19 confirmed cases occurred in Fulham, and Fulham applied for a postponement.
The distance between Tottenham and Fulham is not far, but four hours before the start of the game, the Tottenham squad couldn’t know whether to move, so they had to wait.
Coach Jose Mourinho said on Instagram, “It’s a 6pm game…we don’t know if the game is going on. He also criticized the Premier League, saying it is the best league in the world.
The media said it was unpleasant that Tottenham’s team, including manager Mourinho, did not receive any notice in the conversation between Fulham and the Premier League secretariat.
The media also said that if they knew that there was a confirmed case in Fulham, and had followed the protocol and quickly contacted the league secretariat, the secretariat would have informed Tottenham of this.
Tottenham first announced his postponement before Fulham on the official website and delivered that he wished for a quick recovery to Fulham’s confirmed cases.
While the Premier League secretariat also announced the postponement news on the official website, the secretariat said that it is still confident in quarantine despite the Corona 19 epidemic, and that the league will continue to do so in the postponement of the match between Everton and Manchester City, including the match that day.
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