Premier League and EFL clubs have been warned to brace themselves for a wave of Omicron infections, which will put players out of action and force postponements at clubs up and down the country
The highly transmissible nature of the new variant and the close proximity in which footballers live and work make more clusters almost inevitable, with the majority of clubs likely to be affected, an expert has told Sportsmail.
Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, believes teams and fixtures will be hugely disrupted by Omicron after examining data from South Africa and Europe.