{"id":571962,"date":"2020-11-11T15:26:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=571962"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:26:37","slug":"burton-albion-confirm-several-positive-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/11\/burton-albion-confirm-several-positive-covid-19-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton Albion Confirm Several Positive COVID-19 Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Burton+Albion\" target=\"_self\">Burton Albion<\/a> have confirmed that several members of the first-team squad and staff have tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<h2>Burton Albion Confirm Positive COVID-19 Tests<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u26bd\ufe0f Burton Albion statement: Covid-19<\/p>\n<p>Read the story here \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tzbCO4UlP9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/tzbCO4UlP9<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BAFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S81s3Ix8EQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/S81s3Ix8EQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Burton Albion FC (@burtonalbionfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/burtonalbionfc\/status\/1326525655350202368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Club Statement<\/h3>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burtonalbionfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/november\/1111-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>, the club said: &#8220;After the latest round of testing, Burton Albon Football Club has had several members of the first-team squad and staff confirmed as positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The health and safety of everyone at the club remains our paramount concern and those players and staff affected are now self-isolating away from the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No-one testing positive was involved in last night&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/\" target=\"_self\">EFL<\/a> (English Football League) has been notified and we await a decision on whether this weekend&#8217;s fixture away at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Hull+City\" target=\"_self\">Hull (City)<\/a> will go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will issue an update as soon as further information becomes available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Looking to Build on First Taste of Victory Since September<\/h3>\n<p>Burton recorded a 4-1 penalty shootout win over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Fulham\" target=\"_self\">Fulham<\/a> U21 in the EFL Trophy last night, having drawn 1-1 in normal time. That was the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/int.soccerway.com\/teams\/england\/burton-albion-fc\/764\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first taste of victory<\/a> since their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_self\">League One<\/a> win over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Accrington+Stanley\" target=\"_self\">Accrington Stanley<\/a> on September 19, 2020. They will have been eager to build on their midweek exploits and pick up some valuable league points this weekend. Their game at Hull City&#8217;s KCOM Stadium on Saturday, November 14, 2020, is now in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<h3>Hull City Still Awaiting Rescheduling of Accrington Stanley Fixture<\/h3>\n<p>Hull City themselves have had a COVID-19 concern with <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/754e3f2d\/George-Long\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Long<\/a> missing the win over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Harrogate+Town\" target=\"_self\">Harrogate Town<\/a> as a precaution. Long&#8217;s wife had been showing symptoms and managers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulldailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/hull-city-george-long-coronavirus-4688789\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grant McCann has confirmed<\/a> they elected not to take Long and await the results of a test.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulldailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/hull-citys-kcom-stadium-clash-4690843\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">already awaiting<\/a> the rescheduling of their home game against Accrington Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"-xnq0DcDTCBGewnX0zaMfQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1211646578\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-xnq0DcDTCBGewnX0zaMfQ',sig:'nCu2aVaTCVNeo8zYUuSJ1akMmnwBY_Xh8WgJccn2kaY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1211646578',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burton Albion have confirmed that several members of the first-team squad and staff have tested positive for COVID-19. Burton Albion Confirm Positive COVID-19 Tests \u26bd\ufe0f Burton Albion statement: Covid-19 Read the story here \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/t.co\/tzbCO4UlP9#BAFC pic.twitter.com\/S81s3Ix8EQ \u2014 Burton Albion FC (@burtonalbionfc) November 11, 2020 Club Statement In a statement, the club said: &#8220;After the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3469,"featured_media":571973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,30],"tags":[408,5014,168,573,7035,5363,295,520,136],"class_list":["post-571962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-league-football","category-news","tag-burton-albion","tag-covid-19","tag-efl","tag-fulham","tag-george-long","tag-grant-mccann","tag-hull-city","tag-league-two","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}