{"id":11076,"date":"2021-12-15T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=173151"},"modified":"2021-12-15T22:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:45:28","slug":"premier-league-rejects-leicesters-postponement-request-against-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/premier-league-rejects-leicesters-postponement-request-against-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League rejects Leicester\u2019s postponement request against Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City had requested Premier League to suspend their clash against Spurs which is scheduled for this week on Thursday, because of the COVID-19 outbreak, but the proposal gets dismissed by the league according to Brendan Rodgers, Leicester\u2019s manager. \u201cWe have looked at it but unfortunately for us, we weren\u2019t granted a dispensation,\u201d said Rodgers, reports AFP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brendan Rodgers has been speaking to the media ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeiTot?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LeiTot<\/a> \u00a0\ud83d\udde3<\/p>\n<p>\"We\u2019ve still got a number of players out. In total, we\u2019ve got nine players unavailable through COVID and other medical issues. In terms of the COVID side of things, we\u2019re still where we were.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ko015KjHen\">pic.twitter.com\/Ko015KjHen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leicester City (@LCFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LCFC\/status\/1471119561168723971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The northern Irish football manager had told on Wednesday during a pre-match press conference that the squad lacks nine players who are suffering from illness, injury and COVID-19 cases. Meanwhile, Tottenham\u2019s previous two matches are suspended due to an outbreak that forced at least eight of their players and five staff members to test positive for COVID-19. The matches were scheduled against Rennes for the Europa Conference League and another one against Brighton in the Premier League. On the other hand, Manchester United\u2019s tour that was scheduled for Tuesday to Brentford also got called off following several cases in the camp. Premier League, which has accepted and rejected several pleas for the suspension of the matches has now turned down further requested by the clubs for the postponement over COVID-19, reports Sky Sport.<\/p>\n<p>The fans of the league who want to attend games in the stadium will have to show proof of double vaccination against COVID-19 while taking a good observation of the social distancing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With the introduction of the Government\u2019s Plan B measures, there\u2019s new requirements for attending a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PL<\/a> match \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oi7zX6UkMd\">https:\/\/t.co\/Oi7zX6UkMd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VjqxnTK8L6\">pic.twitter.com\/VjqxnTK8L6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1471069361553170438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The northern Irish football manager had told on Wednesday during a pre-match press conference that the squad lacks nine players who are suffering from illness, injury and COVID-19 cases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":33552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2147,2446,1752,249,218,2690,1747,1162],"class_list":["post-11076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-brentford","tag-europa-conference-league","tag-leicester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-rennes","tag-spurs","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}