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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Breaking news: Liverpool title hopes given boost as Premier League confirm season will be completed

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Our Liverpool FC correspondent Paul Gorst reports on the breaking news as the Premier League announce that the 2019/20 season will be 'extended indefinitely'. That means Liverpool will get the chance to win their first title in 30 years. The current Premier League campaign will not resume until April 30 at the earliest. FA rules state that a season must be completed by June 1. But the game's governing body have confirmed the campaign will be 'extended indefinitely'. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:10.0

The Premier League, along with the rest of football's governing bodies in this country,

0:13.2

have agreed that football will be placed on hold until April the 30th of next month,

0:18.4

moving it back around about three weeks from the original times scale that was meant to be

0:23.2

April of there and what that means from a Liverpool perspective is they will

0:27.5

they will now return to action against Arsel and made a second at the Emirates

0:30.9

when they had been penciled in to return to action

0:33.6

against Manchester City at the Hatiad on April the 5th. That game at the Hatiad

0:37.7

would have given the pool the chance to become Premier League champions with

0:40.9

victory but now with the football being moved back until

0:43.7

April the 30 today the bubble will still need those six points to be confirmed

0:48.5

Premier League champions for the first time of 30 years and the game against the

0:53.2

hostile on May the second will be as it stands the first game back

0:57.4

after what's been a table in couple of weeks.

0:59.9

It's also been agreed by the football governing bodies across this country that includes the FAA, the English Football League and the Premier League.

1:08.0

That action will return on April 30th and there's a steely determination to complete this season as

1:15.8

and when that finishes.

1:17.8

June now will become a free month with the European Championships being postponed by 12 months earlier this week.

1:23.8

So that now effectively frees up the Premier League and the rest of the football leagues to conclude

1:28.8

in June or maybe even in July if it does continue to drag on.

1:32.9

Of course, the people have still got nine games to play.

1:35.4

Manchester City have got a game in hand.

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