which has already seen a number of postponements in december, but it was decided to keep going, even though some managers were against that. the rest of the major european football leagues are all in the usual winter breaks at the moment. we have seen the primary ship brought forward because of covid. it started after yesterday s matches. spectator numbers have been capped. wales has imposed restrictions. nothing in england, the premier league is trying to continue as normal, despite as you say record premier league players and testing positive for covid including boxing day. the liverpool manager was asked about this earlier before tomorrow s trip. he s long placed his frustrations about the number of games traditionally play during christmas and new year, but given that the coronavirus is cases, he says it s not right that so many games are being played after boxing day, especially when i mean some teams are playing just 48 hours after their last game. it’s
list which has already seen a number of postponements in december, but it was decided to keep going, even though some managers were against that. the rest of the major european football leagues are all in the usual winter breaks at the moment. in scotland we have seen the premiereship brought forward because of covid. it started after yesterday s matches. spectator numbers have been capped. wales has imposed restrictions. nothing in england, the premier league is trying to continue as normal, despite, as you say, a record premier league players and testing positive for covid including boxing day. the liverpool manager was asked about this earlier before tomorrow s trip. he s long voiced his frustrations about the number of games traditionally played during christmas and new year, but given that the coronavirus cases, he says it s not right that so many games are being played after boxing day, especially when it means some teams are playing just 48 hours after their last game. and that.
and a few surprises. but wherever you are on your journey. your dell technologies advisor is here for you - with the right tech solutions. so you can stop at nothing for your customers. a growing number of covid-19 cases among professional athletes here in the united states has forced postponements in some major sports leagues. at least nine nhl teams have been temporarily shut down. multiple nba games have now been
for at least one round of matches. today, those in charge of the 20 clubs agreed a collective intention to press on with matches, where safely possible. of course there is no guarantee how many of those matches will go ahead, given what we ve seen recently. clubs have been reminded that where they have 13 fit players plus a goalkeeper, they should fulfil their games, and the vaccination drives goes on. in the last hour we have heard 77% of premier league players have now been double jab, up from 68% in mid october, and to help with fixture congestion, the fa has agreed to scrap the third and fourth round replay in the fa cup. the seven boxing day fixtures have been postponed in the english public. there is an acknowledgement that more cases and more postponements are also inevitable but today for now at least, the festive feast of football goes on.
postponed last year as well but just by a few weeks, it went ahead in march of last year, a mixture of in person performances by the bands but some remotely as well it actually turned out to be quite actually turned out to be quite a good show and it really is at this stage quite unclear as to how they are going to resolve this this year. this this year. interesting, so they could have an option - this this year. interesting, so they could have an option ofl they could have an option of postponing it and doing it like they did last year, that kind of hybrid approach, and of course the other option is just cancelling it all together. that seems quite drastic. that would be very that seems quite drastic. that would be very drastic, - that seems quite drastic. twat would be very drastic, and i don t think anyone is expecting that to happen, although it has to be said in the last few days we ve heard about all sorts of cancellations and postponements. the situation is definitely in flux