Premier League bosses hope to rearrange Aston Villa's match against Newcastle for the FA Cup fourth-round weekend in an attempt to clear the coronavirus fixture backlog.
The match, originally scheduled for December 4, was postponed because of an outbreak of Covid-19 in the Newcastle camp.
Villa have now suffered a number of cases themselves, causing the match against Tottenham — due to have been played on Wednesday night — to be called off, and they also hope to reschedule Sunday's meeting with Everton at Villa Park.
With both Villa and Newcastle out of the FA Cup, league chiefs believe the weekend of January 23-24 is the ideal time to play that fixture.