Live sport is returning to our screens, even though the pandemic is far from over. Patrick gearey speaks to those at the centre of project restart. For 100 days, football was frozen. This was an earlier thaw than some thought possible. The day the English Premier League returned, 1,115 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the uk. So, how had sport re emerged amid a pandemic . What are the risks and in the strange echoey bubble sport now sits in, what on earth comes next . London, on the morning of monday 9 march. The headlines are dominated by talk of supermarket rationing and the coming pandemic. Andthe culture secretary is being asked if sport can go on much longer. At this stage, we are not in the territory of cancelling or postponing events and i dont expect that to be the case after today. Those words aged within the week. The cheltenham festival, liverpool versus Atletico Madrid would be the final scenes of sport as we knew it. Tonights premier league game between Manchester
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