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Riots place doubt over opening Premier League weekend

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This week's riots have affected football fixtures in Britain
The Premier League will decide on Thursday if this weekend's opening round of matches are to be postponed after another night of rioting.

Riots have taken place around the country since Saturday, stretching police resources.

A joint statement from the Premier League and Football League read: "We're in talks with our London clubs, the police and authorities.

"A further statement will be made after the situation is reviewed on Thursday."

There are three Premier League fixtures taking place in London on Saturday, all at 1500 BST: Tottenham v Everton, Fulham v Aston Villa and QPR v Bolton.

Tuesday's statement added that "there is no reason to think any matches outside of London will be affected", but it was released before trouble also flared up in the West Midlands and Manchester.



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David Bond assesses the impact on the sporting schedule
West Bromwich host Manchester United on Sunday at 1600 BST before Manchester City play at home to Swansea on Monday at 2000 BST.

Several football fixtures have already been affected by the riots. England's international friendly against the Netherlands on Wednesday was called off, as was Ghana's friendly with Nigeria at Watford's Vicarage Road, which was due to take place on Tuesday.

Tuesday's Carling Cup matches at Charlton, West Ham, Crystal Palace and Bristol City were also postponed.

Police numbers are already stretched,that's 1 reason they know they can get away with it,if they know police are busy with football matches then thatl give them more reason to riot further,so i wouldn't bank on games going ahead, the clubs cant do without police stewarding the games.

very good chance spurs-everton will be off that looks a cert , plus maybe all london games off , but in the end if its police resourses or a premier league game then the football is not important , police need to be elsewhere !!!!!

London riot's, send in the army? Nah, send in George Elokobi!

why would those riots affect the game in liverpool?

do they send police fromliverpool to london?

foir the last time if its still hapening on merseyside the game will be off the police cant deal with both , ands in the end the game is not important at this time .

if this carrys on too long whats the chances of the games being under closed doors. i know the clubs ( due to money reasons) and the supporters wont like it.

Only way it'll be played in closed doors is if the riots go on for 3-4 weeks which the odds of that happening are like swansea winning the league, as cancelled matches will just be rearragned for mid week between champ league ties.

Also yesturday afternoon me and m8s said it's going to kick off in manchester, liverpool and newcastle tonight as we knew they're 3 of the most built up estate chavy cities in the uk, 2 of 3 happened.
Tonight gurentee you it kicks off in Newcastle or in north east, yorkshire or scotland somewhere.
And if the police do leave London then maybe in few days will kick off there again too.

Also I guinely believe is the matches do go ahead the rioting would probably stop for that night as the majority of those people rioting are bored as [oops] and love their footy teams and would have a night in and watch the game, let alone try and attack any stadiums.

sad situation this. I've been following the news from afar and from my friends there. There are reports of muggings in restaurants which can be really scary.

i expect the london games to be called off.