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Premier League games with no fans: How players, coaches cope with the silence

With additional reporting by Antonio Chamorro, Rob Dawson, Mark Ogden and Julien Laurens.

It's not just the support Richarlison misses but the adulation. "We are used to having fans shouting, asking for pictures, singing our songs," the Everton forward told ESPN Brasil. "It is a little weird, but we have to get used to this. [Hopefully] we can go through all this soon so that the fans can come [to the matches]."

Welcome to the Premier League in 2020. More specifically, welcome to the coda to a 2019-20 campaign split in two by the coronavirus pandemic and irrevocably shaped upon its return by the absence of fans across all 20 top-flight stadiums.