Game called off because Queen did a dead.
No decision yet made.
The EFL cancelled tonight’s match, so why not announce that all fixtures were off.
It’s clear they prefer to play them but a decision will be made today.
You have to feel a bit sorry for Coventry who are already 3 home fixtures behind.
and with the World Cup being played in December there’s already massive fixture congestion for that club.
The protocol is 9 days of mourning , so that would be another 3 additional league fixtures to re-arranging
including Champions League, Europa League and Conference league matches.
In reality there will be a logistical nightmare, especially for the Euro competitions. Coventry City would need to re-arrange 6 fixtures in an already busy schedule, sure the season would need extending for them?
I expect this weekends matches to be cancelled but all the other fixtures from `Monday to go ahead as normal, so each club has to re-arrange just 1 additional fixture. However an important consideration Is the date of the funeral, as everything will be cancelled that day. If the funeral is a Saturday then that another fixture cancelled.
It would be slightly suprising but not a massive surprise if fixtures went ahead as normal this weekend.
Football could argue theres already a precedent that when the last king died fixture went ahead. Could also spin it as a special tribute to “the show must go on” spirit of the queen, thats what she would have wanted.