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Soccer
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The Premier League is ready to tell its players to take a break from training, with a resumption by 30 April looking unlikely
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Women’s Super League and Championship clubs must pay players during lockdown, with FA determined to finish current season -
Maurizio Sarri and his Juventus squad have agreed to a reduction in pay worth €90m to the club as the Serie A suspension stretches on -
West Ham have eight players in self-isolation but they and their families “seem to be well”, according to the club’s vice-chair, Karren Brady -
News and features
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All of the club’s hopes and expectations have dissolved after the FA announced their season had been cancelled
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In depth
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Both teams put tactical systems aside and went for the jugular -
Clubs from FC Sion to Dinamo Zagreb are facing standoffs with their playing staff
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The 100
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Football stars around the world are challenging each other as part of the #stayathomechallenge
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Gary Neville has announced that two hotels he co-owns with Ryan Giggs will close to the public and be made available to NHS staff
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The tournament is aiming to be played in July 2021
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Napoli asked quarantined fans to gather on their balconies and sing the song popularised during their 2016 title challenge
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Leagues are suspended, some players quarantined and many remaining matches played behind closed doors
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The Watford manager Nigel Pearson said he was ‘totally underwhelmed’ by the prime minister’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak
World football
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We watched in horror as football continued in the face of a monster
Opinion
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Highlights of the top-flight campaign until now – and the biggest flop -
Five Pompey players have tested positive for the virus and it is hard to shake the unreal feeling that has enveloped the club -
I was a ballboy that night and though Jean-Marie Pfaff tried to waste time by miscontrolling my perfectly weighted passes Everton sent Bayern packing
Regulars
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Our cartoonist on how English football’s top-flight gaffers are coping -
In today’s Fiver: We fire up the Hot Tin Time Machine, Jürgen Klopp pays tribute and footballers get dangerously bored -
Catch up
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Mark Sampson’s side beat the hosts and in so doing transformed the fortunes of the women’s game in England -
Chelsea, Barcelona, Ajax, Benfica and Bayern Munich are all expected to welcome new players onboard this summer
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The 1914-15 season, which was played out to the backdrop of a world war, is one of the most controversial in history -
We must accept that it will be many months before packed crowds will be returning to watch live competition
The big picture
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Check us out on Instagram, for our pick of the best photos and videos from around the world
Next generation
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Eidur Gudjohnsen’s son, the new Paul Pogba and Ansu Fati feature -
We select the best young first-year scholars at each top-flight team -
From Rashford to Tielemans, we check in on the initial players to be chosen for our Next Generation project -
The winger, who was part of the Guardian’s first Next Generation in 2014, talks about rebuilding his career after being released by Southampton
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