Injury time: FOOTBALL’s risky return with Phillippe Auclair

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The country’s hunger for football has become desperate during lockdown – but will we even recognise the game when it returns this week? What have ten weeks of isolation done to the minds and bodies of top players? And will the game’s elite finally accept that they need to support the game’s desperately-threatened grassroots? France Football’s England correspondent PHILIPPE AUCLAIR talks to strung-out Liverpool fan Andrew Harrison as we enter the riskiest and most unpredictable weeks in football’s history. “If we don’t ensure that the world outside of the Premier League is taken care of, the consequences could be really dire.” “We don’t know how players’ bodies will react to an enforced rest of three months – which they have never, ever done.” “The whole fabric of English football is in danger now. The whole fabric.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.5	it's a major and grave step into the door for professional sports as it takes risks it's never
1:19.0	encountered before with its support staff and also the players who as well as multi million
1:22.8	assets are also human beings many of from the B A M E communities who have been hit
1:27.2	hardest by COVID. Also it's a crucial moment in the messaging war over
1:30.9	coronavirus. Are we unlocking too soon? Are we normalising
1:34.3	larger gatherings? Are we dissipating the effectiveness of clear instructions? Are we being
1:38.8	offered bread and circuses to take our eyes off the government's woeful pandemic response.
1:42.8	On the other hand, football is back, thank God, I have been going insane without it.
1:47.4	It's been worse than the worst possible at August and now we can all sit back and possibly
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