{"id":606454,"date":"2021-12-31T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=606454"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T02:38:07","slug":"leicester-city-norwich-city-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/31\/leicester-city-norwich-city-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City v Norwich City Postponed Due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An outbreak of Covid-19 has seen the Norwich City match postponed against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/09\/20\/time-for-brendan-rodgers-to-act-ruthlessly-when-picking-his-best-leicester-city-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City <\/a>that was scheduled to take place on New Years Day. There was doubt over the game, before John Percy of the Telegraph later confirmed that the game had indeed been called off.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Game OFF. Norwich situation so severe they had just FOUR outfield players training today\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ncfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ncfc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lcfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#lcfc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IgNsTkiZBR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/IgNsTkiZBR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Percy (@JPercyTelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPercyTelegraph\/status\/1476644443281403905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Norwich City Match Postponed Following Covid Outbreak<\/h2>\n<h3>Covid Hits Canaries Hard<\/h3>\n<p>This latest postponement is Norwich City\u2019s second following the game against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/22\/antonio-contes-resurgent-tottenham-secure-league-cup-semi-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">West Ham United<\/a> on December 18. For Leicester City, the game being called off adds to their growing backlog of games after fixtures against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/24\/premier-league-transfer-news-tottenham-hotspur\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/10\/19\/everton-midfielder-abdoulaye-doucoure-injured\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Everton<\/a> were also called off in December. The Canaries asked for the game against Leicester to be postponed due to Covid and injuries in the first team squad.<\/p>\n<h3>Premier League Statement<\/h3>\n<p>The Premier League confirmed that they had accepted Norwich\u2019s request for the game to be called off in an official statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing a request from Norwich City, the Premier League board met today and regrettably agreed to postpone the club&#8217;s fixture at Leicester City&#8217;s King Power Stadium. The board accepted Norwich&#8217;s application as the club do not have the required number of players available for the match (13 outfield players and one goalkeeper), due to Covid-19 cases and injuries.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11661\/12506368\/leicester-vs-norwich-premier-league-match-on-new-years-day-postponed-due-to-covid-cases-at-canaries\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League also said that the decision was taken as soon as possible to avoid fans being disrupted by late postponements that have seen games called off with less than two hours before kick off.<\/p>\n<h3>Self Isolation for Norwich City Players Confirmed<\/h3>\n<p>Norwich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canaries.co.uk\/content\/leicester-fixture-postponed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed<\/a> that the players who have returned positive tests will now enter into the required period of isolation:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose individuals who have returned a positive Covid-19 test result are completing a period of self-isolation, as per Premier League protocols and government guidelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Canaries will hope to fulfil their next fixture, which takes place in the Third Round of the FA Cup against Charlton Athletic on 9 January.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"mfzryCQzQhJs_qR4vIug0A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1235403959\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'mfzryCQzQhJs_qR4vIug0A',sig:'MTGl3NvhufPWaRstgSE-ee6C8pSSZiZs05cTK65Jn34=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1235403959',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outbreak of Covid-19 has seen the Norwich City match postponed against Leicester City that was scheduled to take place on New Years Day. There was doubt over the game, before John Percy of the Telegraph later confirmed that the game had indeed been called off. Game OFF. Norwich situation so severe they had just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":606461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,30,1370,1],"tags":[5014],"class_list":["post-606454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-leicester-city","category-news","category-norwich-city","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}