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Premier League call off 2 more games — Now 12 in total 3 weeks ago. You may also like. News Newcastle United owners meet with players after Cambridge disaster.
Have your say. Upcoming Fixtures. Spurs had a major outbreak earlier in December, making it impossible for the north London club to host Rennes in the Europa Conference League - that fixture still needs a date too. Antonio Conte was visibly shaken in his press conference that week and the club's training ground ultimately had to be closed.
Confirmation of this postponement came at GMT the night before the clash between Brentford and Manchester United was due to take place. United confirmed an outbreak needed "ongoing surveillance" and a decision to close their Carrington training ground was taken. A bit of a trend started to emerge with the postponement of Burnley vs Watford, with the game being called off at a late stage in the day when fans had already made plans to attend. Watford had an outbreak in their squad and were unable to fulfil the fixture.
This one definitely should have been dealt with sooner by the Premier League. Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers confirmed the club had asked for their match with Tottenham to be postponed due to positive cases in his squad, only to see that appeal waved away by the league. It was left until early afternoon for the news to filter through. Spurs were keen to play and may have been able to rearrange their European tie with Rennes for that week had action been taken sooner.
Sensible action was taken here, with the game between Man Utd and Brighton called off two days in advance. United suspended all football related activities at Carrington after being left with just seven healthy players and said "the health of players and staff is our priority". It left Brighton with another game to rearrange later in the season.
The Premier League postponed four games in one fell swoop ahead of this particular weekend, giving fans adequate notice when that hasn't always been the case. West Ham have enjoyed an excellent season so far but their fixture with relegation scrappers Norwich had to be pushed back to January. Five more games scheduled for this weekend have also been postponed due to outbreaks at Manchester United, Brentford, Norwich and Watford.
United's home clash with Brighton, Brentford's trip to Southampton, Watford's meeting with Crystal Palace and West Ham's fixture against Norwich have all been called off along with Leicester's visit to Everton.
For the second consecutive day, record numbers of Covid cases were recorded in Britain as the Omicron variant runs riot, with fears growing that the crisis could derail the football season.
Brentford boss Thomas Frank led calls for a firebreak of at least a week to allow the infection rate to stabilise. Everyone is dealing with it and having problems," said the Dane. However, the Premier League insisted games will continue where it is safe to do so and defended the rationale of postponements on a case-by-case basis rather than when a threshold of positive cases is passed.
Brentford, Watford and Leicester have all closed their training grounds to contain the outbreak, while Norwich and Manchester United were unable to field a side due to positive cases and injuries. Two matches did take place on Thursday in front of full crowds as Liverpool beat Newcastle and Chelsea were held by Everton despite outbreaks at Liverpool and Chelsea.
Liverpool shrugged off the loss Virgil van Dijk, Fabinho and Curtis Jones but the status of their trip to Tottenham on Sunday will depend on how the outbreak is contained in the coming days. Another 10 matches have been postponed in the English Football League EFL as the authorities urged players to get vaccinated or their booster shot against the virus. The EFL, which runs the second, third and fourth tiers, said 25 percent of players were still refusing to get the jab based on their data from November with just 59 percent double vaccinated.
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