Germany will become the first major league in Europe to resume play this weekend but behind closed doors.
The teams have been isolated for seven days, staying in hotels away from their families and tested regularly for COVID-19, existing in a bio-bubble in order to ensure football can return with the minimum possible risk to its participants.
For a team as fiercely supported as Dortmund, the prospect of having no fans inside the 80,000-seater stadium is utterly alien.Football clubs making their extra time count On Monday, Premier League clubs are expected to vote on whether to return to return to non-contact training and executives will be watching and assessing the success, or otherwise, of the Bundesliga experiment.
There have already been hiccups, the most headlong-grabbing belonging to Ausburg coach Heiko Herrlich who will miss the game against Wolfsburg after reportedly breaking quarantine rules by leaving the designated team hotel to buy toothpaste and skin cream.
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