Are you ready for a football marathon of unprecedented length and difficulty? The next year promises a run of fixtures and the longest period of competitive action that the game has ever seen after the Premier League returns from its coronavirus shutdown on Wednesday. It also promises to challenge elite players, both physically and mentally, like they've never been tested before.
There are 390 days between the Premier League restart and July 11, 2021, the proposed date for the final of the rearranged Euro 2020, and some players might only get a pair of two-week rest periods during that 13-month slog.