PREMIER LEAGUE clubs resumed contact training yesterday, with Championship sides due to follow suit from next Tuesday. All have been aided by detailed guidance on permitted drills from the Premier League's Football Department.

BARRY LEWTAS has been promoted to Under-23 boss at Liverpool, while Marc Bridge-Wilkinson steps up to take charge of the U18s.

LEICESTER CITY Under-18 coach Trevor Peake, who is retiring after 17 years at the club, looks back on his four decades in professional football.

PREMIER LEAGUE clubs have voted unanimously to resume full contact training, which is Stage Two of Project Restart.

FLO NEWTON has been promoted from the Academy to become first-team doctor at Arsenal.

FORMER Ireland winger Andrew Trimble got so frustrated with poor team scheduling and communication that he created a solution of his own, which is now being adopted by teams including Stoke City.

SEAN DYCHE says “the best coaches are the best thieves” and has picked out four coaches who influenced his philosophy.

CHAMPIONSHIP clubs will begin training in small groups from Monday, although League One and Two will have to wait in the absence of a testing programme in those divisions.

PREMIER LEAGUE teams embarked on phase one of Project Restart today - training in small groups with social distancing and no tackling. Here's the lowdown on what that involved.

?NIGEL CLOUGH is stepping down as Burton Albion manager after two spells spanning 16 years to “help the club with the financial pressures of these unprecedented times”.

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN manager Danny Cowley, who has managed in eight of the top nine divisions, says there is a “real obligation” for the top of the English game to protect the entire football pyramid.

PREMIER LEAGUE shareholders have voted unanimously to return to small-group training from tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday 19th) as the first step towards restarting the Premier League.