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Serie A plan emerges for how to finish the season - will the Premier League follow suit?

Serie A bosses are suggesting that football action in Italy could restart on May 2 - but all games would have to be completed by June 30.

A video conference between the game's leading figures and UEFA tomorrow is set to pave the way for a possible plan of action to get the 2019/20 season completed following the virus pandemic.

Currently, Italian football has been suspended until April 3 but La Repubblica and La Gazzetta dello Sport suggest that with the country in a state of lockdown, that is unlikely to happen.

Italian clubs all rejected the prospect of a condensed play-off scenario to decide the season.

With the Serie A title race being contested by Juventus, Lazio and Inter Milan plus the race for Champions League places still open with AS Roma and Atalanta there is still plenty to be decided.

But in a report on the Football Italia website, it states that FIGC President Gabriele Gravina has warned clubs they may have to enforce play-offs if the season wasn't completed by June 30.

Clubs have 17 games to cram in between May 2 and June 30 but the Coppa Italia would be moved to later in the year and stray into the 2020/21 season.

The Premier League must decide a similar plan of action this Thursday.

By then they will know exactly what has filtered out of the UEFA meeting this week.

Premier League chiefs have to decide whether the league gets completed, whether there will be games behind closed doors and what happens with the FA Cup which is now at the quarter-final stage.

Newcastle United currently sit in 13th place and are still in the FA Cup with a game against Manchester City to come.

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