The FA's decision to push back games after the Queen's death has come in for heavy criticism
Cancelled football fixtures continue to pile up after the announcement of the death of the Queen last Thursday.
The European competitions are being played during midweek every week but one until early November, to get the group stages done before the domestic leagues break for the World Cup. Then when everything comes back together again it's pretty much Christmas, when teams will be playing three domestic games a week anyway. The earliest the postponed games could be played is 17 and 18 January, and there are only three other slots this season.So far, nobody has worked out what to do about it.
The bigger question is why this has happened at all. The Premier League's explanation for the upcoming cancellations is that with somewhere between 400,00 and 750,000 people flooding London for the ceremonies around the Queen's lying in state and funeral, it wouldn't be able to guarantee the safety of games if they went ahead.
But if, as it seemed last Friday when the cancellations were announced, it was only about the balancing of sensitivities and a nebulous 'mark of respect', that was a bizarre decision. Yet more bizarrely, not only were all professional games called off at the weekend, but all amateur games too. Man on the radio reading out postponed premier league games in a somber, sonorous voice as though informing the nation they have died. Confusing timesThe 20,000 people at the Oval who watched England knock over South Africa, and the hundreds of thousands of rugby fans across the country who went to their games as normal would, presumably, be quite upset to realise they were engaging in disrespectful and despicable behaviour.
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