Middlesbrough boss Jonathan Woodgate has welcomed the Championship's return after the EFL revealed plans for the 2019/20 season to resume on June 20.
The announcement means that Leeds United's push for promotion to the Premier League will resume imminently but there has already been some opposition, notably an angry statement from QPR.
While some have expected the most vocal opposition to a restart to be from relegation-threatened clubs, Middlesbrough boss Woodgate is evidence that isn't the case.
“That’s the news we’ve been waiting for. As a club we’ve made no secret of the fact that we wanted to restart the season when it is deemed safe enough to do so," he told the club's official website.
“We’ve followed the guidance of the authorities all along, and will continue to do so. It isn’t a lot of time, but the players worked to their own programmes during lockdown, and came back here last week.
“We’d had June 20 in mind as a possible to return and were already working towards that date. We had a good week last week and we’ll step things up this week, and keep moving forwards now.”
Middlesbrough sit just two points above the relegation zone ahead of the Championship's return date and are set for a significant battle to avoid a demotion to League One.
