Four more weekend games added to earlier postponementsEFL reveals 25% of its players do not intend to have vaccineThere 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.