Liverpool fans on Twitter have been debating over the latest announcement from the Premier League.
This comes after Liverpool journalist Caoimhe O’Neill shared a post on her official Twitter page that included an article from the Liverpool Echo on the Premier League’s announcement of suspending fair-play handshakes due to coronavirus fears.
In her post referring to this announcement, she asked her followers if the Premier League are overreacting to the virus.
Are the Premier League right to suspend the handshakes?
Yes, it will help
No, it's pointless
Her post then gathered a lot of replies from Liverpool fans who had differing views on the situation.
Here’s a sample of Liverpool fans responding to the post:
I know people are dying and that’s never a good thing but are we overreacting to #coronavirus or what?https://t.co/CZaxjwmpeD
— Caoimhe O'Neill (@CaoimheSport) March 5, 2020
What about after Full Time Whistle? Aren’t managers gonna meet and have a handshake? ??
— YaasinNWA (@YaasinEdoo) March 5, 2020
specially when players will continue spitting and touching each others when defending corners etc.
— Albert Guerra Bonet (@albertgb97) March 5, 2020
Anything that can improve safety and help the games to continue is fine by me. It’s slightly weird however that there wasn’t a huge issue over Ighalo at the time he signed
— Gary (@LFCgk9) March 5, 2020
As the coronavirus continues to make its way around the globe, this latest change from the Premier League authorities to suspend the handshakes until further notice has caused a big debate on Twitter on whether or not this will be beneficial to combat the disease.
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It’s hard to believe that missing a handshake before a 90 minutes long contact sport could prevent anything. But…never mind, just don’t stop the league or postpone matches. That would be the real overreaction, and it’s probably still on card
— Szabó Péter (@PoolPenguins888) March 5, 2020
The Govt and WHO are recommending that people try to minimise contact. This statement by the PL is a ‘look what we are doing’ to get it into the public eye rather than ignoring the health recommendations because we always shake hands. (this is a good thing)
— Andy (@Flymo68) March 5, 2020
Absolutely not, 34 times more deadly than the flu and more contagious.
But forgetting that, i don’t see how stopping handshakes pre-match will stop them infecting each other when they grab at corners, grab team mates in goal celebrations etc
— ? (@25LFC_) March 5, 2020
What do we think?
Football is still a contact sport, getting rid of shaking hands isn’t going to make a difference regarding the other plethora of physical contact in a standard game of football. This could well be a ploy from the Premier League to show that they are taking steps to take the virus seriously.