Premier League to meet as government backs return 'as soon as possible' -MW

Efforts will intensify this week to find a way to complete the Premier League season, after the government announced its desire to see football again as soon as possible.

With Premier League clubs meeting on Friday and a new team convened by the Ministry of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports this week, government officials talk about an acceleration of the pace. banging. But when some Premier League clubs open up their training ground, details of how elite sports can return safely are still unresolved.

Only on Friday, the top clubs will be tournament presented with a protocol to allow complete return training. After a weekend of headlines that exaggerated the return of pinnacle football, with three weeks before the season starting in May and the match behind closed doors from June 9, the culture secretary , Oliver Dowden, told parliament on Monday that he backed quickly back but with a significant coda.

I personally spoke to the Premier League with the aim of getting football up and running as soon as possible to support the entire football community, he said. But of course, any such move will have to conform to public health guidelines.

A meeting between DCMS, Health Health England representatives and executives from the UK's biggest sports, including the Premier League, will take place this week to discuss how sport can continue. safely. It is understood that any health and safety plan will have to be signed by PHE and the government.

While the challenges of staged sports, even behind closed doors are increasingly being discussed, challenges before resuming the competition are also being emphasized.

On Monday Arsenal, West Ham and Brighton reopened their facilities for social training and Tottenham will do the same on Tuesday. With limited time and number of athletes, each club is setting its own terms. Arsenal allow up to five players to enter their training ground at any time, while West Ham and Tottenham are restricting their players to solo running exercises. Spurs say that no more than one player will be allowed on any pitch at any time and that the player must come alone in the kit and return home immediately after their session.

According to an expert, the conditions will have to significantly improve for the final preparation for any resumption that will begin in mid-May.

Dr. Craig Boyd, senior lecturer in sports performance at Manchester Metropolitan University, who has worked with elite football clubs and GB team athletes. The defining moments of the game are sprinting, spinning, stopping, solving and doing those things while looking at opponents and balls.

These are the most strenuous activities in football and increase the likelihood of success and failure. They are currently being stripped altogether, and even in small groups, they will have problems. Overcoming distant societies, that's the big thing.

Players will need less time to get in a better shape than before the regular season because they have won flying around the gaming world. But until you bring the whole team together, techniques, tactics and physicality can be implemented. And if you do not have enough time to do that, it will increase the likelihood of injury.

In a move that seems to recognize the physical requirements that will be given to players as the season recommends, Fifa announced on Monday that it will support the temporary introduction of up to five replacements per team. . They can be done in up to three positions in the game and in half the time.

Player safety is one of Fifa's main priorities, a spokesperson. One concern about this problem is that the frequency of matches can increase the risk of potential injury due to player overload.

Faced with this event and the only challenge faced globally in providing contests according to the originally scheduled schedule, Fifa proposed a large number of substitutes that are temporarily allowed at the discretion of the house. relevant competition organization. This can be applied until the end of the 2020-21 season and for international games until December 31, 2021.

Elsewhere, Uefa announced that it would issue 236.5 million euros (£ 206.3 million) to its member associations. The money comes from the HatTrick fund's governing body and is often referred to as an investment in education, knowledge sharing and education. Aleksander Ceferin, president of Uefa, said that because of the unprecedented challenges of the city of Covid-19, those restrictions were lifted.

MW