BBC journo shares key coronavirus testing update & dates for Leeds amid major PL development
Leeds United might be able to finish their Championship campaign on either July 18 or July 19, according to BBC Sport journalist Simon Stone.
On Monday, the Premier League announced that clubs will be able to have their players return to training in small groups from Tuesday onwards. Contact training is not yet permitted but this is the first step of the ‘Return to Training Protocol’.
Leeds fans are waiting to see when Marcelo Bielsa and his squad will be able to return to training again with the EFL telling clubs last week that a return date of May 25 is the plan so far.
Stone reports that the plan is still for Championship clubs to return to training next Monday with coronavirus testing to take place over the course of this week.
He adds that a restart date of June 20 has been pencilled in with the final games being played in the middle of July, followed by the play-offs.
It is all good news for Leeds.
The club and the players has been vocal about wanting to finish the season by playing the remaining nine matches and that seems as though it’s what they’ll get to do.
It will be a shame that promotion might be won in an empty Elland Road but it’s more rewarding than being handed promotion via the points-per-game model, even though that would simply hand the Whites a spot in the Premier League.
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