Premier League will play on impartial grounds whether season resumes; vote expected on May 8, per outline

The official decision on what the Premier League will do for the rest of its season is still a week absent, but there appears to already be a plan in place whether the return of league play gets green lit. ESPN’s Mark Ogden reveals that the idea is to have the last games of the 2019-20 Premier League season played in the back of closed doors in impartial venues.

This move will reportedly assuage the biggest fear the league had, which was once fans gathering en masse inside stadium grounds. The plan would entail playing the remaining 92 games of the season at locations like Wembley Stadium and one other ground that has yet to be named, according to Ogden’s outline. That being said, concern of fans gathering outdoor of stadiums all the way through important games has yet to be really addressed beyond getting rid of home and absent games for the remainder of the season.

The vote on this monumental decision will take place on May 8, as ESPN also reported. This Friday, alternatively, the league’s hierarchy met to speak about Project Restart, a government-funded plan to cause the sport back by around summertime. The goals of that project are in line with that of the Premier League, which has insisted that the league be played to completion by seemingly any means necessary–within proper health and safety guidelines, of class lesson.

What this potential move also means is that even supposing Liverpool wins its first league title since 1990 — which it sort of feels will happen in all likelihood — the team will not get to clinch it at Anfield. On the other end of the table, no decision on what to do with relegation has been officially made.

The Premier League has been suspended since March 13.

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