Arsenal's Europa League match with PSV Eindhoven on Thursday has been postponed. A statement by UEFA confirmed that "this is due to the severe limitations on police resources and organisational issues related to the ongoing events surrounding the national mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II".
There had been some hope that the game would go ahead last week after the Metropolitan Police had indicated that they were comfortable for it to go ahead. However, with 3,000 PSV fans expected to travel to London for the game, the police decided that they could not provide the appropriate level of safety while their resources were so stretched.
football.london understands that Arsenal desperately wanted the game to go ahead and explored a number of different options to try and make this happen. One of these was to flip the fixtures so that the reverse fixture in Eindhoven could take place on Thursday.
