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• Project Restart: Premier League clubs allowed to train in small groups
• Celtic champions & Hearts relegated after SPFL ends season
• Women's Super League: FA 'continuing to consult' clubs over terminating season
• Callum Hudson-Odoi: Chelsea and England winger arrested and bailed

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Chris Jones
BBC rugby union correspondent

Bristol Bears owner Steve Lansdown has argued the Premiership should "foster and encourage ambition" by keeping the existing £7m salary cap as well as the controversial marquee player rule.

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"We just don't like you."

"You're not our type of people."

Imagine being quarantined with your arch enemy. It sounds far from appealing, right?

Yet in a luxury hotel on Australia's Gold Coast, it's an unfortunate reality for two Australian rules football clubs - for at least the next seven weeks.

Port Adelaide, who are known as the Magpies, and Adelaide, who are nicknamed the Crows, have been booked into the same resort as Australian Football League (AFL) teams go into lockdown in a bio-secure "hub" in preparation for the new season.

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Nigel Clough is to step down as Burton Albion manager and will be replaced by club captain Jake Buxton.

Assistant manager Gary Crosby and chief scout Simon Clough are also set to leave.

The club has blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the decision.

Chairman Ben Robinson said: "At present we have no idea when football will be safe to re-start and whether we will be able to play in front of crowds or behind closed doors, which brings a high degree of financial uncertainty.

“It’s therefore with a heavy heart that after talks with Nigel, Gary and Simon we have agreed that their departure will help us meet these challenges."

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Premier League clubs can begin training players in small groups from Tuesday as part of 'Project Restart's' stage one.

Contact training is not permitted.

The Premier League statement said: "Strict medical protocols of the highest standard will ensure everyone returns to training in the safest environment possible.

"The health and wellbeing of all participants is the Premier League's priority, and the safe return to training is a step-by-step process.

"Full consultation will now continue with players, managers, clubs, the PFA and LMA as protocols for full-contact training are developed."

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Atletico Madrid's forward Joao Felix says he and his team-mates are happy to restart the season from next weekend, after the players trained together on Monday.

Atletico joined clubs across Spain's top two divisions in training in groups of up to 10 players after getting permission from the government to move into the penultimate stage of the league's four-phase plan to return to activity.

La Liga said they hope to resume the final 11 rounds of matches, which will be played behind closed doors, from June 12.

"We're feeling very good and are very excited about playing again, if it were up to us we would return this weekend but we'll have to wait and work hard so we can get off to a good start," Felix said on his club's official website,

The 20-year-old said the players "worked hard" at home to make sure they didn't lose fitness, adding that he has "missed" playing and scoring goals.

The Portuguese said: "Now we're starting to work with the ball again and will do that every day so we can return to normality.

"It's the first day we have been able to come together and we have been playing lots of small sided games which is what we love doing and what we were missing the most."

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Former Premier League and international referee Mark Clattenburg says playing games behind closed doors could mean TV cameras will pick up bad language from players.

"I don’t think swearing is a referee issue, it’s more of a player issue, " Clattenburg, who now referees in China, said.

"It is echoey and you can hear everything that was said.

"That is something the TV companies will be mindful of.

"It is a highly energetic sport. Players play on the edge and there’s words said on the pitch, so TV companies are going to have to be mindful and careful in what’s broadcasted to the people back home."

He added: "But I’m sure they’ve had matches that have been played behind closed doors – England matches – and that they are ready for this. It is a small problem over the big problem that we have."

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Dan Roan
BBC Sports editor

Clubs voted unanimously on the decision at a "Project Restart" meeting on Monday.

Players must observe social distancing rules, and contact training is not permitted.

Premier League clubs have agreed to stage one of the return to training protocols which would allow teams to start training in small groups from Tuesday.

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Referee Mark Clattenburg says match officials will find it difficult to follow social distancing rules if football gets under way again in England.

And he added the possibility of self-isolating for a period of time before matches restart will be "mentally tough".

Clattenburg, 45, told the BBC's World Football programme: "The issue is around the match day because there’s still the social distancing and they’ve still got to get ready in a dressing room that in my experience were always small and difficult for four match officials to get changed in."

"Through all the risk assessments they’ve got to find some sort of solution that match officials are safe and regular testing because if the referee has coronavirus then there’s a chance of them passing it onto players and that’s going to be an issue.

"Self-isolation is going to be mentally tough on them because they are used to seeing their families."

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Simon Stone
BBC Sport

Bundesliga players will be reminded of the return-to-play guidelines before next weekend's matches after Hertha Berlin's players ignored them during Saturday's 3-0 win at Hoffenheim.

The DFL [German football league] has already said Hertha will not be punished for their celebrations.

However, Bundesliga International chief executive Robert Klein says the guidelines need to be followed.

"[There are] clear guidelines. We need everyone to respect them," he said.

"In the hygiene concept, the guideline is to celebrate within social distancing rules. One can imagine at the height of a goal being scored that maybe, sometimes, the players get closer.

"The clubs are working actively with the players. They speak to them every day to remind them of what needs to be done to ensure we earn the right to a second match-day and a third and to finish the season."

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"Bizarre, sterile and eerie."

That's how German football expert Constantin Eckner described it.

He was at Eintracht Frankfurt's 3-1 defeat by Borussia Monchengladbach and wrote this piece for BBC Sport.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport

When might we see some cricket? What would matches look like? Will players be allowed to opt out?

England's men return to training this week, giving the clearest indication yet that the 2020 season will not be entirely lost to the coronavirus pandemic.

Although the shutdown on competitive action remains in place until at least 1 July, plans are being drawn up to salvage some of the schedule, even if it is only the international fixtures.

Plenty of questions remain unanswered, but what seems certain is that any action we do get will be cricket not quite as we know it...

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For full reaction to Celtic being crowned Scottish Premiership champions, head here

The final 2019-20 Scottish Premiership table...

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Hearts have been relegated following a decision in a league board meeting, after all 12 clubs agreed finishing the season was not feasible.

Average points per game played has been used to determine final placings, with the only change to the table from when football was halted on 13 March being that St Johnstone move above Hibernian into sixth place.

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