Two more Premier League matches have been postponed as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc with the Premier League's Boxing Day schedule.
The surge of COVID-19 cases in Britain has already begun to affect Boxing Day football, one of the highlights of the English season.A further 21 Football League games have been rescheduledTwo Premier League matches were called off on Thursday, three days before they were due to take place.Leeds United's match at Liverpool, and Watford's at Wolverhampton Wanderers, were postponed after both visiting teams recorded a significant number of positive tests.
"The positive cases, combined with our well-documented injury issues, means that we would not have enough recognised first-team players to meet Premier League requirements."Watford — who have already had two games called off this month — continue to have an insufficient number of players to field a team, the Premier League said.
The packed program is not to everyone's liking however, and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola — while supportive of playing through Christmas — is one of several managers who want to revert to five substitutes, as allowed when last season re-started."It's a characteristic of this league. It won't change. The problem is the fixtures, the calendar, 365 days a year. It's too much.
On the wider issue of fixture congestion, Guardiola said, "Maybe we need a strike for people to take attention", but backtracked, saying it would not happen.
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