Injury time: FOOTBALL’s risky return with Phillippe Auclair

The country’s hunger for football has become desperate during lockdown – but will we even recognise the game when it returns this week? What have ten weeks of isolation done to the minds and bodies of top players? And will the game’s elite finally accept that they need to support the game’s desperately-threatened grassroots? France Football’s England correspondent PHILIPPE AUCLAIR talks to strung-out Liverpool fan Andrew Harrison as we enter the riskiest and most unpredictable weeks in football’s history. 

• “If we don’t ensure that the world outside of the Premier League is taken care of, the consequences could be really dire.”
• “We don’t know how players’ bodies will react to an enforced rest of three months – which they have never, ever done.”
• “The whole fabric of English football is in danger now. The whole fabric.” 

Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.

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