When is football resuming? What complications are there? Could ‘reversing’ fixtures work? When will the schedule be decided? PJBuckingham assesses the key issues facing football this week...
.The Queen’s coffin left the Balmoral estate in Scotland on Sunday en route to London It was confirmed on Saturday that the Queen’s funeral will be held on Monday, September 19, and it is expected to be a commemorative event like no other.
“By the end of the week, you start to click into what will be — I would say almost certainly — the biggest security operation the country has ever seen,” former Metropolitan Police commander Bob Broadhurst says. The advice put forward by each club’s SAG will determine if a fixture requires policing and, if so, the levels needed.
“Whether matches go ahead is a matter for the footballing authorities,” the Metropolitan Police said on Saturday. “If fixtures do take place, the Met will work with the relevant partners and ensure that appropriate policing plans are in place.”Time is not an ally. There would be less than a week to put everything in place for a club expecting to be away to play a home game instead, and there is little appetite to do so.
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