Boxing Day is on the agenda in the Premier League today, but the commercially very important Christmas Day has been amputated.
3 matches of the 19th match day have been postponed due to too high contamination figures in some teams.
The United Kingdom is by no means escaping yet another wave of infections, especially now that the omikron variant is becoming dominant.
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola hopes the stadiums will not become off limits for football fans, but does require an effort from them.
“The numbers are rising here and in the rest of the world. Supporters who go to a stadium can infect each other,” he said at a press moment.
“They don’t wear a mouth mask in the stadiums and that really surprises me. We have to move on to the booster shot, but part of the package is also disinfectant gel, social distancing and a mask.”
“I trust the scientists because they know a lot more about it than I do. People don’t die if they get the vaccine, they do if they aren’t vaccinated.”
“So we have to respect the measures, because I would not like our stadiums to remain empty,” said the coach, who is hosting Leicester City with City this afternoon.
