Manchester United legend and Salford City co-owner Gary Neville believes that the Premier League and the English Football League (EFL) must only agree to postpone matches over exceptional circumstances.
Matches across the football pyramid are being called off on an almost daily basis at present owing to Covid-19 outbreaks in squads leaving clubs with not enough players to fulfil fixtures.
EFL rules state that 'Clubs will be expected to play where it has 14 players, including a goalkeeper, available from the Club’s registered squad list, Under 21 players not on the squad list but have played one League match, or any other contracted player not on the squad list but otherwise would have been eligible to play.'
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Bolton Wanderers ' last three games in League One have been postponed due to a Covid outbreak at the club leaving Ian Evatt's side with an insufficient number of players available.
Wanderers are poised to next be in action on New Year's Day versus Rotherham United, after their matches versus Wycombe Wanderers, Morecambe and Burton Albion were all postponed and will have to be rearranged for later in the season.
Popular Sky Sports pundit, former United defender and Salford co-owner Neville feels that there are far too many games not going ahead, given the size of squads in the top two tiers of English football in particular.
He took to Twitter to say: "The PL and EFL (in particular) have got to stop these cancellations unless in exceptional circumstances. Each club has 40-50 players including youth team as a minimum.
"If it’s the Carabao Cup or EFL Trophy they find a team without fielding the first 11. Get on with it.'
He also agreed with talkSPORT's Adrian Durham's comments surrounding Championship games requiring more scrutiny , adding: "Completely agree Adrian . No way these clubs can’t get a team out. We’ve seen in the PL when teams requests are rejected, (then) they end up playing near on full strength lineups.
"Time for clubs to get on with it and trust their young players unless in exceptional circumstances."
