Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hopes LaLiga will return "soon" and says that it will be up to federations and clubs to decide when.

Gary Neville believes the Premier League and its clubs are "frightened to death" of publicly backing a return to action in case they are held liable for any problems relating to 'Project Restart'.

Welcome to the Evening Standard's LIVE coverage as the coronavirus crisis continues to heavily impact sport across the globe.

Football fans in need of a fix this weekend should look no further than the story of Corinthian FC of London and a match in Brazil delayed by 100 years.

Jadon Sancho has returned to training with Borussia Dortmund with German football edging closer to a return following the coronavirus shutdown.

PFA supremo Gordon Taylor has raised the possibility that Premier League matches may not be the full 90 minutes if the season is completed under Project Restart.

John Stones insists football can only return when it is safe for "everyone."

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has applauded the return to action of Germany's Bundesliga after a lengthy enforced break due to coronavirus.

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The Premier League, the FA, the government and Sport England have pledged £9.56million to support grassroots football during the pandemic.

After nearly two months without football in the major European leagues due to the coronavirus pandemic, the German Bundesliga will finally return on Saturday, May 16.

As Barcelona's players returned to the club's training ground for the first time since mid-March on Wednesday morning, there was one notable absentee.

Liverpool remain keen on signing Kosovo winger Milot Rashica, the president of the country's Football Federation has claimed.

Football fans will finally have some live action to watch on Friday, when the South Korean K-League returns from its coronavirus shutdown.

As fans of European clubs nervously wait to find out when the beautiful game is returning across the continent, the prospect of any live football is a godsend.

As fans of European clubs nervously wait to find out when the beautiful game is returning across the continent, the prospect of any live football is a godsend.

No fans in the stadium, no spitting allowed on the pitch and substitutes wearing masks.

Teams could be allowed to make up to five substitutions when football resumes after the game's law-making body approved the Fifa proposal.

Jeffrey Jordan crashed head-first into a glass table.

The coronavirus has created a unique year for college football recruiting. With travel restricted and summer camps canceled, many recruits could up playing near home.

Uncertainty has City Section coaches questioning whether football can be played this fall, so Garfield coach Lorenzo Hernandez recommends playing in spring.

The Liverpool defender says the current absence of football will have forced players to think about what they'll do when they have to stop playing

The AFL and NRL will both play matches this weekend, but both leagues are taking different approaches to dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.

The game of footy is almost a different sport on the Northern Territory's Tiwi Islands — a place where former AFL star Austin Wonaeamirri says Aussie Rules is a way of life.

Neither of the major football codes seem likely to emerge from the coronavirus outlook unscathed and nor do the free-to-air television networks that broadcast their matches.

English Premier League players are coming under fire for not taking a pay cut during the coronavirus pandemic, but the players association argues cutting player salaries could do more harm than good.

Five sisters make up a quarter of their tiny town's under-16s Aussie Rules team. They can't compete right now, but they are all determined to break into the professional ranks one day.

The Bundesliga could be the first top-flight football competition in the world to return from an enforced break due to coronavirus, and may become a test case for how other leagues approach a return to normality.

The reigning champions of the Women's World Cup have the equal pay elements of their multiple-claims lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation tossed out by a federal judge.

The consensus across football and netball clubs in the west and north-west of Victoria is the season should only start if fans are allowed to attend games.

With many families getting priced out of junior football, one club in Perth is waiving fees, and it could signal a new direction for grassroots sport in Australia, writes Samantha Lewis.

With coronavirus putting a pause on the AFL season, Melbourne's Marty Hore and Collingwood's Flynn Appleby return to their family dairy farms.

The Justice Department announced it has reached a settlement with the Mountain Valley, Pa., Midget Football League to ensure that children with disabilities are offered an equal opportunity to play youth football.

Jonathan Caine, 20, of Nashville, Tenn., pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for making racially motivated threats to an African-American assistant football coach at a local high school in, the Justice Department announced.

A Las Vegas jury returned guilty verdicts yesterday against Alan Rodrigues, a former casino owner from Henderson, Nevada, Weston Coolidge, a former businessman from Las Vegas, and Joseph Prokop, a former National Football League punter from Upland, California, for conspiracy and fraud related to their promotion of a fraudulent tax product through the now-defunct National Audit Defense Network.

The soccer star arrived in an electric retro-fit Fiat Panda and attended a cooking demonstration.

To carbon neutralize the Super Bowl, the NFL plants mangroves in Florida

This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still

Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of damage to infrastructure and

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Paul Quinn College in Dallas converted its underused football field into a working farm.

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The objections to restart plans are understandable and the game should pay attention, but ultimately clubs need to play games to survive

With each week the plans become a little more refined and with each week any final decision is pushed back. Football may return, and this is how it may look if it does, but nobody is sure, and any proposed date can only be provisional. Which is as it should be. In an age that often favours decisiveness over the decision itself, there is something vaguely comforting about a process that accepts the wisdom of waiting.

But in the background there is a crucial, nagging voice, and what it is saying is this: if football isn’t prepared to return, at least initially, in a form very different to the one it took before the virus, it may not return for a very long time – and for many clubs that means never.

How much do you know about clubs with dusty trophy cabinets?

More quizzes: big goals, penalties and famous photos

In which decade did Tottenham last win a major trophy?

The 2010s

The 2000s

The 1990s

The 1980s

Leeds have not won a trophy since Howard Wilkinson guided them to the league title in 1991-92. Who was their top scorer that season?

Eric Cantona

Lee Chapman

Gordon Strachan

Gary Speed

Who was the prime minister the last time Everton won a trophy?

Margaret Thatcher

John Major

Tony Blair

James Callaghan

Manchester United won the double in the 1993–94 and 1995-96 season. Which club won the League Cup in those two seasons – and have not won a trophy since?

Middlesbrough

Leeds United

Aston Villa

Sheffield Wednesday

Sunderland have not won a major trophy since they beat Leeds in the FA Cup final in 1973. What was remarkable about that Sunderland team?

They were in the Third Division at the time

They won the game 1-0 even though they did not have a shot on target

None of their team had played international football at the time

They won all of their FA Cup ties 1-0 that season – including the final

Newcastle have not won the league in the post-war period. In which decade did they win three FA Cups?

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

Which of these London clubs has won the top flight?

West Ham

Crystal Palace

Queens Park Rangers

Fulham

Charlton Athletic

None of them

Which club won three league titles in a row in the 1920s and have never won the league since?

Ipswich Town

Sheffield Wednesday

Huddersfield Town

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Who are the only club to have won the old First Division yet never played in the Premier League?

Notts County

Bristol City

Plymouth Argyle

Preston North End

Which club won the league title 100 years ago but haven’t won it since?

West Brom

Bolton Wanderers

Birmingham City

Swansea City

1 and above.

Your trophy drought continues

2 and above.

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Your trophy drought continues

5 and above.

Your trophy drought continues

6 and above.

No trophy drought for you

7 and above.

No trophy drought for you

8 and above.

No trophy drought for you

9 and above.

No trophy drought for you

0 and above.

Your trophy drought continues

10 and above.

No trophy drought for you

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“Which two footballers have played the most matches together? I reckon Jason Dodd and Francis Benali for Southampton must be up there,” asks Mark Williams.

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