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Project Restart latest to resume Premier League
Premier League clubs and their squads will hold crunch meetings this week, with players holding the key to the top-flight’s plans for a return to action next month.
The 20 clubs will meet again on Friday or Monday — depending on the Government’s planned review of the lockdown measures — for a pivotal vote on whether to complete the season at eight to 10 neutral venues.
Before then, clubs will gauge the views of their players over a return to action, while the Premier League are set to lobby the players’ union, the PFA.
Non-League won’t return in 2020
Boreham Wood chairman Danny Hunter does not expect non-league football to return this year as he claimed misguided advice from the National League had already cost him more than £100,000.
Hunter announced late on Monday the club would not be releasing season tickets for the 2020-21 campaign as he could not envisage play resuming before the turn of the year.
"Realistically I think football for all things Boreham Wood in 2020, is over," Hunter wrote in a post on the club's website.
"Let's hope I'm wrong, though I don't think I am. I suppose I could pretend that non-league will be back by August, September or October, a bit like the National League Board and some of the member clubs are doing, but that's not going to help us."
With playing behind closed doors not a viable financial possibility for non-league clubs, Hunter added he believed competition could not return without a vaccine.
"No matter what way I look, no matter how I interpret the government guidelines, I just cannot see how any football at our level in 2020 will be possible until a vaccine is found," Hunter said.
Hunter called on the National League board to accept that as reality and develop 'Operation Survival' to help clubs stay afloat, rather than push for a more immediate return.
