Orlando, FL - On the heels of FC Dallas being removed from the MLS Is BACK The TOURNAMENT due to a number of COVID-19 tests within the players and staff, Commissioner Don Garber announced a new health and safety initiative to shut down the rampant spread of the @MLSCovidCup Twitter account.
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“The MLS Covid Cup account is thought to spread mainly through close contact from person-to-person,” stated Garber. “Some people without Twitter may be able to spread the account. We are still learning about how the account spreads and the severity it causes.”
Sources say that the league is concerned that the account is spreading among players in the bubble as well as spreading across the soccer landscape in North America.
“If this keeps up we will have to strongly consider the idea of cancelling the twitter accounts of all the players,” stated one anonymous insider. “The league knows that the account is highly contagious, like measles, while other twitter accounts do not spread so easily. They are concerned that the account may be spreading in other ways such as by touching a surface tablet or an object that has the account on it… like Facebook… and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes. This is not thought to be the main way the account spreads, but we are still learning more about how this twitter account spreads.”
With a number of players testing positive and then negative for the Twitter account, sources indicate that Garber will instruct strict measures to ferret out the source of the account by possibly leaking false information to one person and seeing if that’s what ends up on the account.
“He’s gonna go full Rebekah Vardy and Colleen Rooney up in this,” stated one league insider. “Just wait, there’s gonna be some crazy rumors coming out.”
The Nutmeg News will have more on this as scientists become concerned about the account spreading to players outside the bubble in other leagues.