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Premier League clubs are committed to completing the season, which means Liverpool still have a chance to break their title drought.
The English Premier League stepped up planning on Friday (Saturday, New Zealand time) to resume competition at neutral stadiums, holding separate talks with the government and its clubs to discuss the necessary tests and logistics of COVID-19.
Players at some clubs returned to training grounds this week for individual physical exercise, but Britain remains on a national block until next Thursday.
The forms of social distancing will continue even if the blockade is alleviated, but the clubs hope that the teams’ training can begin in a few weeks. That would require the Premier League to buy thousands of COVID-19 tests so that players and coaches can be regularly reviewed, but there is still a shortage of them in society at large.
The goal is to resume the league after June 8 after a three-month suspension, with games without spectators at any stadium. Police expressed concern that fans could still gather outside the stadiums if their team played at home.
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Therefore, no team should play any of the remaining games in their own stadium because the league does not believe that the 20 wickets would receive a security certificate with the police and medical resources that are already spread throughout the country to face the pandemic. .
“The league and clubs are considering tentative early advances and will only train and play again under the guidance of the government, under expert medical advice and after consultation with players and coaches,” the Premier League said in a statement. the creation of the government medical task force for the return of elite sport, which met for the first time this morning. ”
Decisions made by the Dutch and French governments over the past week led to the end of their soccer seasons. But British Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he was working on plans that satisfy Britons who “desperately want to play sports again.”
“We have just started the first of many detailed meetings to plan a safe return to elite sport behind closed doors when, and only when, it is safe to do so on the basis of expert medical advice,” Dowden, who oversees sports, tweeted. in government. “There is a lot to consider, but today we are intensifying planning.”
For now, the Premier League decided only on Friday to stop its youth competitions. That means Liverpool still has a chance to play its remaining nine Premier League matches to end a 30-year title drought.
“The clubs reconfirmed their commitment to end the 2019-20 season,” the league said, “maintaining the integrity of the competition and thanking the government for its support.”
The 20 Serie A clubs also held a video conference on Friday and were said to agree that the season should be completed if they can do so in accordance with government guidelines and in compliance with health regulations and protocols.
Professional football clubs in the lower leagues in England were told that fans would not be allowed in their matches until 2021.
Bradford City revealed details of a meeting Thursday with the English Football League. The fourth-tier club said it had been informed of the “increasing possibility that fans will not be able to attend games until 2021.”
