{"id":92787,"date":"2020-05-15T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92787"},"modified":"2020-05-15T05:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T09:49:56","slug":"reuters-government-gives-green-light-for-english-soccer-to-return-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92787","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Government gives green light for English soccer to return in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League&#8217;s plans to resume the season next month was given a boost on Thursday when Britain&#8217;s Culture and Sport secretary Oliver Dowden said the government was &#8220;opening the door&#8221; for football to return in June.<\/p>\n<p>Dowden said he held a &#8220;positive meeting&#8221; with football authorities &#8212; which included the Premier League, the English Football League and the Football Association &#8212; to &#8220;progress plans&#8221; for football to resume.<\/p>\n<p>The professional game has been suspended since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over 33,100 people in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wkzo.com\/news\/articles\/2020\/may\/14\/government-gives-green-light-for-english-soccer-to-return-in-june\/1018276\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe government is opening the door for competitive football to return safely in June. This should include widening access for fans to view live coverage and ensure finances from the game\u2019s resumption supports the wider football family.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2G04AIuCMM\">https:\/\/t.co\/2G04AIuCMM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Krishna Eluri (@krishna_eluri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krishna_eluri\/status\/1261052253600993285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League&#8217;s plans to resume the season next month was given a boost on Thursday when Britain&#8217;s Culture and Sport secretary Oliver Dowden said the government was &#8220;opening the door&#8221; for football to return in June. Dowden said he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92787\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,104,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92790,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92787\/revisions\/92790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}