Osian Roberts took charge at Spurs with Patrick Vieira isolatingTuesday’s
Arsenal v Wolves and Leeds v Aston Villa matches offCrystal Palace’s preparations for the
boxing Day trip to
Tottenham descended into chaos with their manager, Patrick Vieira, testing positive for Covid-19 while they were denied a last-minute request to postpone the fixture.
Osian Roberts, the assistant manager, took the team for the 3-0 defeat and, despite his efforts to play down the disruption, it was plain that the situation was far from ideal. Vieira is the second
Premier League manager to test positive for the virus in the past few days with Aston Villa’s Steven Gerrard also now in isolation.