The coronavirus outbreak in the Leading League led to this, that the fourth game in five days was postponed on Thursday, with Leicester's game against Tottenham called off hours before kick-off.

It's Tottenham's third game in a row, which was postponed due to coronavirus cases in his team, including the European Conference League match. Leicester, who dealt with his own epidemic, had an earlier request to postpone the match rejected by the Premier League.

But the league said Thursday, that Leicester are now "understaffed" following further COVID-19 infections among staff and players. The training ground was closed, to prevent disease outbreaks.

“Leading League chápe, that this decision will disappoint and frustrate fans, who were supposed to participate in today's match, and apologizes for the inconvenience and disruption caused at such short notice,” the league said.

The decision was made on Thursday, when Brentford manager Thomas Frank said, that he wants, to postpone the weekend round of matches, to allow clubs to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

Frank was in the middle of his press conference on Thursday, ahead of Brentford's away game at Southampton on Saturday, informed of another four cases of coronavirus among the club's players and employees. Overall, it was like that 13.

Three previous matches in the last week - Brighton-Tottenham, Brentford-Manchester United and Burnley-Watford - have been called off due to team outbreaks and many teams have individual cases of COVID-19 due to the worsening health emergency in Britain. omicron variant.

“We should postpone a whole round of Premier League games this weekend,” Frank said. "Cases of COVID are spreading across all clubs in the Leading League, everyone deals with it and has problems.

“Postponing this round and also (next week's English League Cup) would give everyone at least a week or four or five days to do it, to clean and do everything on the training ground, so that everything is clean and you break the chain.”

Frank said, that the postponement of this weekend's round of league fixtures could be enough to do so, to ensure, that the busy ceremonial method in the division will be able to continue largely as planned.

“We fully respect, that we want to play and it is important, for football to continue,” Frank said, “and in this way we can ensure, for Boxing Day to continue, that's what i am 100% certain.

“This omicron variant is running wild around the world and I think, that we have to do everything, what is within our power, to protect and avoid it. We can do a lot by closing the practice fields to three, four or five days, and then we can go again.'