The Return of the Premier League – Episode 2: The New Normal
Football Ramble
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4.7 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We're back with the second episode of our three-part series, The Return of the Premier League, hosted by Melissa Reddy!
With football trying to implement the early stages of Project Restart, the priority was ensuring the safest working environment possible for a return to training. On today's episode, we look into how players had to be convinced by robust scientific evidence and the successful resumption of the Bundesliga before they felt comfortable to get back at it. We hear from the likes of ESPN's Mark Ogden and STATSport's Sean O'Connor about football's unprecedented new normal, while Bournemouth defender Chris Mepham describes what getting a Coronavirus test actually feels like!
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| 0:48.1 | The FA Premier League, EFL, Barclays FA Women's Super League and FA Women's Championship |
| 0:58.3 | have collectively agreed to postpone the professional game in England until the 3rd of April at the |
| 1:03.5 | earliest. This action, which will be kept under constant review, has been taken due to |
| 1:08.9 | the increasing number of clubs taking steps to isolate their players and staff because |
| 1:14.7 | of the Covid-19 virus. The post-bomans include all matches in the championship, League 1 and |
| 1:21.1 | League 2 as well as academy and youth team fixtures. |
| 1:27.8 | For ages it was hard to imagine just how football would look during a global pandemic. There |
| 1:34.2 | was talk of isolation camps, reduced harbours, no-locked tackles, a lot of its sound and bonkers. |
| 1:42.6 | It was tough to stomach any diluted version of the game, but over time it became crystal |
| 1:48.5 | clear that they would have to be changes. |
| 1:51.5 | We're still awaiting official confirmation from the Premier League, but it is understood |
| 1:56.3 | that clubs have agreed to that restart date of June the 17th. |
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