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‘It’s getting quite dirty behind the scenes’

Gary Neville believes talks around the Premier League resuming have become ‘dirty behind the scenes’ and those lower down the table will get ‘bullied into playing again’ as clubs jostle to try and get the season completed.

Gary Neville believes talks around the Premier League resuming have become ‘dirty behind the scenes’ and those lower down the table will get ‘bullied into playing again’ as clubs jostle to try and get the season completed.

The three teams occupying the Premier League’s bottom three places have been warned that relegation could be imposed on them if they continue to obstruct plans to resume the season next month at neutral venues.

Clubs are due to meet to discuss Project Restart on Monday and those desperate to restart the season could demand a vote to determine the relegation issue if Norwich, Aston Villa and Bournemouth don’t back plans to resume.

Aston Villa chief executive Christian Purslow and his opposite number at Brighton, Paul Barber, have both spoken publicly on their clubs’ wishes for matches not to be played at neutral venues.

The current bottom three and Brighton had not been the most vocal in objecting though with West Ham and Watford also among the clubs against the current proposals.

But it is the first major sign of in-fighting within the top flight as clubs battle to save themselves from further financial losses brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

And, speaking yesterday on The Football Show on Sky Sports, Neville insisted the bickering was becoming ‘unsavoury’ and warned some clubs may be ‘bullied’ into playing again.

The Manchester United legend said: ‘There is no doubt we have got a divided Premier League in terms of what the clubs want.

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