Hello everybody and welcome along to the podcast today the

Premier League on NBC Podcast the crew is back together and we are now just a few days

away from actually seeing each other face to face certainly also here in the US and I know

you chaps over there in the UK as well Arla White Bly Dixon, Graham Maso, Robbie Musto,

Carl Martino and Robbie Eljo and myself Rebecca Lo here today. We've got a number of things

gentleman to get to. I'd like to if I can just sort of get the flavor of your

thoughts for right now six days away from that opening game between Asam Villa and Shephled

United followed by Man City against Arsenal next Wednesday.

How everything has come to this we've sat here on a number of occasions,

Robbie I'll start with you. Project restart is about to begin.

Yeah. The timing of it, what they've put into it, and how it looks. How do you feel right now about it?

It feels like it's come together with Rebecca in about the right time. We mentioned when we started doing these

podcasts about the return of the Premier League and what that might look like and we

said they're all just bad options. Let's pick the best of the bad options. Well Project

Midstork has been discussed with all the clubs, bringing in the players,

the scientists, the medical staff. I feel we're in a place now where it's as safe as it can

be the number of positive tests that have been showed for the amount of players, coaching staff and auxiliary staff that are going around is minimal.

It feels like the players are more comfortable in it.

We've seen them go back from training individually to small group training to group training and contact now they're having competitive games.

So each stage it feels to me as though the players have gained confidence.

We have the thing with Home and Away grounds, well that looks like it's gone away. It just feels as though

we are about the right time and what was never going to be a perfect situation, but we've come to the time that we can all look forward to and I think with some

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