#85 How and why are games postponed, abandoned or canceled?
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This podcast usually looks at what happens during soccer games, but for today’s episode, we look at the times when soccer does not happen!
In light of the recent spate of Premier League games that have been called off, Ryan Bailey, Taylor Rockwell, Graham Ruthven and Joe Lowery look at game cancelations, abandonments and postponements.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soccer 101, the show where we answer soccer's biggest and occasionally medium-sized questions. |
| 0:17.9 | On today's edition, we're talking about match cancellations, postponements, and abandonments. |
| 0:23.6 | What reasons can a game be can for, according to the rulebook, what kind of circumstances |
| 0:28.8 | of games not gone ahead in the past, and which games were played that probably should have |
| 0:33.1 | been 86th? |
| 0:34.6 | My name is Ryan Bailey, joining me today. |
| 0:36.8 | Hello, Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello. I feel like you did a little bit of a Scottish there with your pronunciation of rulebook. Maybe that was just me, but I like to think it was when we talk about rules, you like to talk about IFAT. Rule book. Yeah. Is it because I rolled my ars, darling? That might be. That might be. That might be. That might be. Purple rule book. Joining us with |
| 0:35.6 | This Purple Rulebook, Grand Rutherland. |
| 0:37.5 | Hello, Ryan Beelot. |
| 0:38.7 | How? That might be. That might be. Purple rule book. |
| 0:56.2 | Joining us with his purple rule book, Grand Rutherman. |
| 0:57.5 | Hello, Ryan Bailey. |
| 0:58.5 | Hello. |
| 1:00.0 | And Joe Lowry. |
| 1:00.5 | Hello, sir. |
| 1:01.6 | Hello, Ryan. |
| 1:03.6 | Hello, Joseph. |
| 1:10.5 | We attack this question today on Soccer 101 because there's been a spate of games called off as we record. |
| 1:13.8 | The latest information we have is that five Premier League games have been called off in the week that we are recording. |
| 1:16.6 | More coming, it seems. |
| 1:18.6 | A good chance lot of games won't happen in any future on Plague Island, Graham. |
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