Manchester City’s Boxing Day fixture against Leicester is expected to go ahead despite the Foxes’ recent problems with Covid-19.
Premier League managers and captains from all 20 clubs today met with officials to discuss a reaction to the spread of the omicron variant, which forced six of the 10 weekend fixtures to be called off.
They decided not to scrap the next round of games despite the spread of the Omicron variant and the effect it has been having on the programme.
City ’s win at Newcastle was one of the four games to survive, with the Blues not thought to have any current Covid cases in their squad — although Kyle Walker has been missing for a week with an unspecified illness.
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