City Boss Takes Umbrage Over Our Cancellations

Rotherham United didn’t get to play their game yesterday, which would have been away at Brentford, and won’t play away at Luton Town on Tuesday night after Friday morning saw a number of the Millers first team squad test positive for Covid-19.

The club immediately reported the findings to the EFL and their doctors with their advice being to cancel both games.

It has happened before to the Millers and other clubs and I suspect in the coming weeks will happen to more clubs in the EFL. But it seems that Birmingham City’s Manager Aitor Karanka isn’t happy telling BirminghamLive that he thinks it is ‘unfair’.

The Millers have three games in hand of the Blues at the moment with Mr Karanka saying, ‘They (Rotherham) are going to play the games maybe when the other teams know their positions and it isn’t going to be the same and they will be playing the games when they are rested. Also they will be playing against Brentford when maybe they are already in the Premier League or in a Play-Off position.

‘This is not the first they have had the same problem. Making one mistake, maybe, but the second one, for me, is not fair. It is something the EFL need to check because I don’t think it is normal, it is unfair.’

Oh, Mr Karanka, life isn’t normal at the moment is it?

I’m quite sure when he thinks back to his outburst, after his team had lost to Barnsley, he will realise it probably wasn’t the best thing to come out and say. I mean, does he really think we want to have our training ground shut so we can’t train? Does he think we want to play all our games in a block with hardly any time between? Would he have said this if his team had been nine points clear of us? (I doubt it). Would he rather we kept quiet and played with the possibility of passing it on to other teams? After our win on Wednesday night I think we really would have been ‘up’ for the game against Brentford. And, you know, we aren’t the only team to have had this horrible disease twice.

We are in the middle of a global pandemic and Rotherham United have followed both EFL and Government protocol in this situation.

Stay safe our there everyone.