Could a Covid-19 'pingdemic' ruin the beginning of the new football season?
31 July, 2021
The Premier League and Covid -19
While numerous limitations are being lifted in football, the Covid pandemic will keep on affecting the game in England .
The new English football season gets going this end of the week with EFL Cup games occurring - however does a whirlwind of dropped pre-season installations propose another mission will be upset by the coronavius pandemic?
Matches at Bournemouth and Sheffield Wednesday mark the principal cutthroat homegrown installations played with no Covid limitations set up since March 2020.
Coronavirus diseases stay high - despite the fact that they are falling - and a cross country record of self-separation cautions from NHS contact following has prompted stresses of a 'pingdemic' spreading to football. Effectively various pre-season apparatuses have been upset or dropped because of flare-ups or close contact following issues lately.
Manchester United's well disposed at Preston on Saturday is the most recent to be canceled due to positive cases, while Norwich have been also affected, Arsenal rejected their US pre-season visit and Newcastle lost three goalkeepers to self-seclusion for one installation .