If the Bundesliga provides any clues, expect not fully-fit players to run into injury woes, says John Duerden.
SINGAPORE: The 2019-2020 English Premier League season was suspended on Mar 13 due to the spread of the coronavirus.
Sky Sports, which has broadcast Premier League games since the league started in 1992 and will show 64 of the 92 remaining matches, has teamed up with EA Sports FIFA, the makers of the popular FIFA video game franchise to create “a range of bespoke and team-specific crowd noises and chants to bring the vibrant atmosphere” of the EPL to television, Sky said on its website on Jun 8 adding that viewers can choose to turn off the effects.
Whatever enhancements are made, the best way to keep viewers entertained is for the players to serve up the kind of exciting and fast-paced games that helped make the EPL the most popular in the world.This may not be easy. Ahead of the start of a normal season, clubs have pre-season training in mid-June before embarking on foreign tours in July. They then return home for the final tune-ups before the season begins in August, giving them six to seven weeks to prepare.
“Players have had a resting period of four weeks at least where they could not train as a group. We are now going back to a full league program with just two weeks of group training maximum and zero friendly games as preparation. It is not difficult to work out that this is by far and away insufficient.”
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