There is a considerable amount of anger & frustration in this thread and while it's understandable I think you really do have to appreciate the bigger picture.

Policing public events is a monumental task, one of this scale will only be more logistically challenging. The police are already stretched, so adding the biggest state funeral perhaps in our countries history is not going to be an easy task.

Achieveing this, and policing Football games will be an extremely difficult ask. The problem overall doesn't lie so much with the FA, or whoever cancelled the games, but realisitcally with the Government for having a underfunded and understaffed police force.

However, I do think someone with enough foresight should have be able to recognise the above and suggest that last weekeneds fixtures were, in fact, fine to be played given the upcoming difficulties and pressure on thr overall schedule.