Premier League chief exectuive Richard Masters has recently reaffirmed his confidence that the top-flight in England will be able to continue, even in the face of a second lockdown.

Masters recently said: “We don’t feel the closed doors model is at risk at the moment.

“We think we’ve got a proven model that worked in Project Restart, and at the moment we’re happy, and so are government, that we can continue.”

One thing that will now be pushed back, until 2021 at the earliest, is the return of spectators into stadiums. Thousands of fans had signed a petition, hoping to force the government into a U-turn, but that now looks set to be shelved for the forseeable.

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