Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, the world's most lucrative domestic soccer league prepares to relaunch a billion-dollar gamble by the EPL.

There's a genuine risk that broadcasters will either refuse to pay or demand back money, which they've already advanced.

Sponsors, too too will demand money back

that could be worth about another three hundred million dollars so english soccer on tv perhaps but

with fans fearing a virus what is a future of a spectator sport like this people may not go

partly because of the fear of being in an enclosed space with a crowd,

but actually they may not even have the cash in their pockets to do that.

The challenge facing soccer and sport as a whole here on Business Daily from the BBC.

This lockdown or stay-at-home period has been extraordinary, hasn't it,

for challenging many people in many

different ways. Non-sports fans probably won't have much sympathy, but those of us addicted to our daily

sports fix, gossip, rumour, speculation, not to mention the actual games themselves, well, it really

has been quite hard. Premier League football fans, for example,

have been reduced to watching stuff like this.

That's Lionel Messi, keeping a toilet roll, airborne, with his feet.

And that is the sound of a dance routine performed by Alex Oxley, Chamberlain of Liverpool

Football Club dancing with his girlfriend.

Yes, there have been endless games on social media by the football stars and endless replays

of past football games on telly to remind ourselves of what it's like, but this

is pretty thin gruel for the true football devotee. My entire life revolves around football. I watch

football at home. I watch football for work. I write about football for work. I talk about football at

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