The game should never have gone ahead and urgent questions must be asked, writes They don't get to ask follow up questions at these press conferences but if they could Liam Thorp may have wanted her to offer more detail on this observation. to your comment. He told BBC Sport this week he wished "there wasn't the opportunity to go" to the fixture.The mayor of Madrid has already said the decision to allow the match to go ahead was "a mistake".Watch the best of the action from day 12 of London 2012, including Nicola Adams' convincing semi-final win and a snapped pole for Lazaro Borges.Watch as former champion John Higgins makes the first maximum 147 break at the World Championship since 2012.Get latest scores and headlines sent straight to your phone, sign-up to our newsletter and learn where to find us on online.The latest rumours and stories from around the world of football.Analysis and opinion from our chief football writer.How to get into football - the most popular sport in the world, with clubs and facilities throughout the UK.How to get involved in just about any sport or activity But it didn't feel right.I think one of the things the whole fandango before and after the Atletico game shows is a lack of awareness, interest and care from decision makers in Government on what attending football matches - especially European ones - actually entails. - … … That was after the Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, tested positive on 12 March, the day after the Liverpool game, and clubs suddenly realised they could not guarantee the health of their own players and staff.Hancock said, as all ministers have, they were “following scientific advice”, suggesting that suspending the match would not have “the biggest impact”.
On the same day, following health advice, La Liga announced that all matches would be played behind closed doors.So, as Merseyside MPs Dan Carden and Ian Byrne observed, and Maria Eagle, who challenged the health minister Matt Hancock about it in parliament even as Anfield was belting out You’ll Never Walk Alone, 3,000 Atlético fans travelled to watch their team in Liverpool, when their own stadium was closed to prevent the spread of the virus.Alarm about the British government’s approach was sounded loudly for the first time on the night of the match, by Prof John Ashton, the former regional director of public health for north-west England. Free bets will credited by 7pm on Monday. UEFA have responded to concerns that Liverpool's Champions League second leg clash with Atletico Madrid could be affected by coronavirus. Atlético Madrid Stuns Liverpool as Coronavirus Pierces Champions League Two goals by Marcos Llorente made for another dramatic night in Europe’s top club competition, but news of … Log in to update your newsletter preferencesPlease
The lack of restrictions was a concern to the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who described the approach as an “outlier” compared to other countries.On the week of the match, Madrid had become the centre for the spread of the coronavirus in Spain, with 782 of 1,646 confirmed cases. You board public transport and planes, you eat and drink and share spaces, you congregate in pubs and on concourses. The match was the last major fixture played in England before the season was suspended. Please Liverpool's match with Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on March 11 will be investigated by the city's council regarding any impact it may have had on the spread of coronavirus. A spokesperson for the department of health and social care defended the policy, and the government’s timing of measures, which changed five days later to advise “social distancing”.That followed a report by scientific advisers at Imperial College, who had concluded that the “mitigation” measures being planned “would still likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and [the health system] being overwhelmed many times over”.Last week, universities and schools closed, followed by pubs, restaurants, gyms, cinemas, theatres and museums; a nation was sent home. Opt in and bet £25 or more before 23:59 on Sunday to earn a free £5. It doesn't have an approach which it can modify if we get to see the thinking from the people who have chosen to be the people responsible for keeping us safe, for making decisions, for leading. Liverpool's Champions League home match against Atletico Madrid and the Cheltenham Festival contributed to an increase in coronavirus deaths in the UK, a scientist has said.Professor Tim Spector, from King's College London, said the two events held in March had "caused increased suffering and death that wouldn't otherwise have occurred".He said data from an app used to report COVID-19 symptoms showed that Cheltenham and the North West both became "key hotspots" for the coronavirus.Despite several European countries and cities already being in lockdown by the time the sports fixtures took place, Prime Minister Boris Johnson waited until 23 March to announce his own "stay at home" message in the UK.More than 251,000 people attended the Cheltenham Festival from March 16-19 this year - a drop of nearly 15,000 compared to 2019.Liverpool's exit from the last-16 of the Champions League on March 11 was watched by around 52,000 people inside Anfield, including 3,000 visiting supporters who had travelled from Madrid - where such events had already been suspended.By the time Mr Johnson ordered the lockdown, the number of coronavirus cases in the UK stood at 6,650 and the number of deaths was 336.Since then, nearly 37,000 people have died in the UK after contracting COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, and there have been more than 262,000 cases.Professor Spector, who works in genetic epidemiology research, said: "Two weeks after the Cheltenham Festival and the Liverpool game against Atletico Madrid, we saw the number of people reporting COVID symptoms in the COVID Symptom Study app from those particular areas increase and both areas became key hotspots in the UK.