Manchester City will be paying any casual workers who were expecting to on shift for their postponed men's and women's games this weekend.
Pep Guardiola and his side were due to play Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday evening at the Etihad, while Gareth Taylor's women's team were set to get their Women's Super League campaign underway at the Academy Stadium on Sunday against Arsenal. Both fixtures were called off on Friday by the footballing authorities as a way of paying tribute to the Queen following her death on Thursday.
While the postponements were understandable in the circumstances, the decision has had consequences for the preparations that had already been made for those matches and the people that were expecting to be involved on the days.
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City have acted so that anyone on a zero-hours contract who was set to work either game will be paid in full for the shift they were expecting to be working. In addition, any perishable food will be distributed to organisations in Manchester so as to try and waste as little as possible from the food that would have been served this weekend.
Tickets for either match that had been bought remain valid for whenever the games are rearranged, and refunds can also be requested if that is preferable. No dates have been set for the rearranged games, and there remains uncertainty over whether the Premier League and WSL will be back next weekend or whether more sets of fixtures will be postponed to mark the period of mourning.
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