Premier League clubs, including Aston Villa, met on Monday and decided against a circuit breaker over the festive period.
Villa shared the Premier League’s statement on their official Twitter channel, with a number of supporters reacting to the update.
Villa have been hit with a rapid rise of virus cases and had to cancel their match against Burnley on Saturday. The club had requested for the game to be called off at 10:30am on Saturday morning, but the fixture wasn’t officially postponed until 12:40pm, with little more than two hours to the scheduled kick-off time.
It was the sixth and final top-flight match to be postponed over the weekend (and the 10th in the space of a week) due to the pandemic, but the Premier League confirmed that it is ‘collective intention to continue the current fixture schedule where safely possible’.
That means Villa’s Boxing Day meeting with Chelsea is still on at this moment in time despite the outbreak at Bodymoor Heath.
Villa fans react
Here is what these Villa fans had to say in reply, with many not happy regarding the statement, which one supporter described as a "joke" in the increasingly worrying circumstances.
“Looks like I'll be ready to go and then end up in the pub again lol, feel sorry for people that travel a far distance for them to call it off last minute, the Premier league are a joke”
“'The health and wellbeing of all concerned remains our priority...' Complete lies”
“Gonna spread like wildfire. But money must come first”
“So half a squad for Boxing Day's game... Isolation is 10 days”
“If that’s case we probs have to field half the team with youth players, guarantee if it was other way around with Chelsea the game would’ve already been postponed”
“Looking after the so called big six again!”
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