Premier League calls off six more games due to Covid but rejects pleas for break
The Guardian says There was an extraordinary acceleration of football’s Covid crisis on Thursday as the Premier League postponed six fixtures in one day but resisted calls for a ‘firebreak’ suspension, insisting that play will go on.
Manchester United and Leicester were joined by Watford, Norwich and Brentford in having too few players available to fulfil their weekend fixtures, with Leicester’s game at home to Tottenham on Thursday also called off. Only five matches remain in the weekend’s top-flight schedule, but with cases reported at Liverpool, Burnley and Chelsea further revisions cannot be ruled out.
Brentford’s Thomas Frank said this weekend’s Premier League fixtures and next midweek’s Carabao Cup ties should be suspended to “break the chains” of infection. Organisers, meanwhile, doubled down on emergency regulations and a new focus on changing the minds of vaccine-refusing players.
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