SPORT SPORT | 10 SPORT | 11 Akram and Pogba using Babar to inspire lockdown to Pakistan's prepare for women team return MONDAY 4 MAY 2020 PL could face legal action if season doesn’t finish, warns Crystal chief AP — LONDON “No one wants to be respon- Liverpool's sible for this one! Just in case The Premier League could face players celebrate the unthinkable happens. ... I’d years of legal challenges if this in this file photo. respect them more if they said season is not completed due to ‘We accept the increase in Ronald Koeman the coronavirus pandemic, the Health Risk but it’s one we are chairman of Crystal Palace willing to take.’ They won’t as warned yesterday. they are frightened to death!” Coach Koeman Steve Parish offered public The Spanish league has support for the league’s “Project been communicating its plans admitted to Restart” plans after relegation- more substantially ahead of threatened Brighton and West players resuming training indi- hospital with Ham expressed concerns about vidually at the clubs’ facilities teams being forced to play their on Monday while observing a heart problem remaining games in neutral series of safety measures pre- stadiums. established by the league and REUTERS — AMSTERDAM The league is working with local authorities, including the government to find a safe regular COVID-19 testing. Netherlands coach way for players to resume There is more uncertainty Ronald Koeman was group training and play games in Italy where the government admitted to hospital with by June at the earliest. has only allowed players in a heart problem But the French and Dutch regions containing eight of the yesterday, the daily De league seasons have already 20 Serie A clubs to resume indi- Telegraaf reported on its been halted by their govern- spreading COVID-19 infections. Parish highlighted the community after testing pos- vidual training from today. website. ments amid ongoing concerns While Paris Saint-Germain was “many secondary industries itive for the new coronavirus. While the leagues in The 57-year-old was about sporting fixtures crowned French champion last football enriches,” with the Parish’s explanation of England, Italy and Spain will not taken from his home by week despite Ligue 1 ending Premier League fearing losses “Project Restart” came as the start until at least June, the ambulance but after sur- prematurely, Ajax will not be of more than 1 billion pounds Premier League faced heavy German top flight is hoping to gical intervention was in awarded the Dutch title. from an incomplete campaign criticism from one of the main resume this month. a stable condition, his “I want to complete the as broadcasting commitments pundits for the broadcaster that But the Bundesliga’s plans wife Bartina told the I want to crown competition for reasons of are not met. provides the league’s single were unsettled by three positive newspaper. sporting integrity,” Parish said “Nobody wins if the Premier biggest revenue stream. tests for coronavirus last week Koeman has been the Liverpool champions in a column published yes- League receives less money,” Gary Neville, the former at Cologne, reportedly including Dutch coach for just over and give every terday on the Palace website. Parish said. England and Manchester United two players. two years and helped the other club a fair “I want to crown Liverpool “Football is one of the most defender turned Sky Sports Cologne has insisted that country to qualify for champions and give every other efficient tax-generating industries commentator, said the Premier there is no need for the rest of Euro 2020, which has crack at the best club a fair crack at the best in Britain: we pay the players a League was having a the squad and coaching staff to been postponed to next league position league position they can lot but 50 percent goes straight “nightmare” and was “hiding, go into quarantine. year due to the corona- achieve. I certainly don’t want back into the public purse. Overall scared to death of communi- “The prerequisite for this is, virus pandemic. they can achieve. I to have difficult conversations we pay about 3.3 billion pounds cating” its plans fully in public. of course, that now that we The former interna- certainly don’t want about curtailing, voiding and in tax every year and it is the The league has not made any have started testing, we con- tional defender, who as to have difficult points per game. Premier League that largely funds official available for interview tinue to test consistently, thus a player won the “The ramifications of each the whole football pyramid.” since the competition was sus- ensuring that only those who European Cup with both conversations about are complex and could involve The national lockdown pended almost two months ago. have tested negatively are part PSV Eindhoven and Bar- curtailing, voiding legal challenges that run on for remains in place through “I want football to return. I of training,” team doctor Paul celona, managed months, if not years. But, yes, it Thursday in Britain where more also understand the complex- Klein said. Cologne said that Everton before he took and points per game: is partly about the money. And than 28,000 people have died ities,” Neville said in a response players will only resume charge of his native Steve Parish we should all care about the in around two months in hos- to Parish’s tweet linking to his training after two consecutive country’s national team. money.” pitals, care homes and the wider column. negative COVID-19 tests. Serie A teams can start individual training MILAN REUTERS — athletes in individual sports sessions on an individual the interpersonal safety dis- could start training from May basis from May 4, said players tance of at least two metres Serie A teams will be able to 4 and those in team sports could resume training and in respect of the ban to start individual training must wait until May 18. tomorrow. gather in any form,” the sessions as of today amid the Spadafora’s statement The region of Campania, interior ministry said in a letter COVID-19 crisis, according to drew criticism and Serie A club which includes Naples, has also to local authorities. a letter sent by the Italian Sassuolo on Saturday said they said that players can begin Serie A has been sus- interior ministry to local would allow their players to training. Napoli have yet to pended since March 9 and the authorities. use their facilities from comment. league and the Italian football Prime Minister Giuseppe Monday. “Athletes and non athletes, federation (FIGC) both want Conte said last Sunday that Bologna, also based in the of non individual disciplines, to complete the season, individual training could start Emilia Romagna region just like any citizen, are although the Italian gov- on May 4 and team training on where special permission allowed to practise individual ernment says it has not yet Juventus’ forward May 18, only for sports minister was given for athletes in team sporting activities, in private decided whether it will give Cristiano Ronaldo Vincenzo Spadafora to say that sports to take part in training and public areas, in respect of its permission to do so. 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