The Premier League is about to embark on its busiest period of the season, with 40 games -- plus all four Carabao Cup quarterfinals -- due to be played in the space of 17 days starting this Saturday. But a resurgence of COVID-19 is threatening to wreak havoc on the fixture list.
Manchester United's home game with Brighton this weekend was the fifth Premier League fixture to be postponed in the space of six days because of a COVID-19 outbreak that had ripped through the squad of one of the competing teams, with Leicester vs. Tottenham (Thursday), Burnley vs.