The riots throughout England have claimed another football match, as Saturday’s season opener between hosts Tottenham Hotspur and visiting Everton has been postponed. As most of you are probably aware, the Seven Sisters Road area in North London was the flashpoint of the riots, and at one point, Spurs club store (sitting on the High Street just outside White Hart Lane) was vandalized in the mayhem. 

Sunderland manager Steve Bruce offered up this quote on the terrible situation:

I think I stand for the whole of the country. We are outraged and shocked by what we have seen. I hope the Premier League can get started. In my opinion, it would be wrong to let these idiots and thugs who are doing what they are doing disrupt everything. We will be guided by the authorities, but I echo what most people think and what most people are saying. I am saddened and shocked that our country could come to something like that.

At this point, all other season-opening Premier League fixtures are still going forward as scheduled. Fulham is the only other London club with a home fixture this weekend. Let’s all hope that sanity and lawful behavior begins to reassert itself soon.