Frank Lampard believes that the decision not to play last weekend’s Premier League fixtures following the death of Queen Elizabeth II was “the right thing to do.” Although Everton’s home match against West Ham United is going ahead on Sunday, three top flight games this weekend are off which will mean, following last week’s postponements, some teams will not have a domestic fixture for a month due to the forthcoming international break.
Everton had been due to travel to Arsenal last Sunday but while most other major sports in the UK decided to continue, football chiefs ruled that all games that weekend – both professional and amateur – would be called off as a mark of respect for her late Majesty who passed away the previous Thursday aged 96 following a record-breaking reign of more than 70 years on the British throne. Lampard said: “I just think it was the right thing to do, that’s my personal opinion. I think in the circumstances, I thought it was right that football and the Premier League took a pause for the weekend out of respect.
“So I think that supersedes any idea of us playing Arsenal and what that might have meant, I thought it was the right thing to do and that decision was obviously taken for us and I thought it was right.”
