Chelsea-Liverpool game in doubt due to miscalculation

The game between Chelsea and Liverpool to be played on Sunday 19 September at Stamford Bridge in London is in doubt. Police are likely to be redeployed en masse to London ahead of the Queen's funeral, meaning there is expected to be a shortage of officers available to be present at Premier League fixures.

According to the Telegraph, this strategy as part of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral arrangements will prevent the match between Blues and Reds from being played, suspending the game for the second weekend in a row. Liverpool were due to play Wolverhampton at Anfield on Saturday but that was also called off.

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Faced with this suspension in English football, the Reds will have to concentrate on Tuesday's home game. They host Ajax of the Netherlands on matchday 2 of the Champions League group stage in a game in which they must win to avoid complicating their qualification to the last 16 of the best club competition in the world.

The last time a monarch died was in 1952 when King George VI died. On that occasion English football was not suspended and Liverpool had a match against Derby County three days later. The matchday programme dedicated a lengthy message to the then leader of the United Kingdom who also handed over to his daughter to become Queen Elizabeth to begin her term of office. 

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The Premier League was among the first accounts to post a message and change its logo to black as a sign of mourning, an act that all competing clubs followed. In turn, Liverpool posted a message on all their social media accounts such as Twitter, Faceook and Twitter about their grief at the death of the 96-year-old with a black and white portrait.