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Government to hold Premier League talks next week as Man City and Manchester United await restart

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Senior government officials will hold a meeting with the Premier League next week and are "hopeful" a plan can be agreed for matches to return.

Premier League clubs will hold a video-conference on Monday to discuss Project Restart in further detail. However, no formal vote will take place at Monday’s meeting on the proposal - but sides could be asked to approve some elements of the plans.

Oliver Dowden, secretary for digital, culture, media and sport, has confirmed he will talk to the Premier League, the EFL and FA next week about progressing plans for games to resume behind closed doors.

He also claims the government wants football to come back because it will be "good for the nation" but stressed that public safety "must come first".

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