Andy Holt suggests football clubs should go into 'protective hibernation' to safeguard their futures during this uncertain period and fears games may not be played in front of crowds for a long time.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: The Championship club are at the centre of a battle after their crucial vote against voiding the season was not registered on time due to technical problems.

EXCLUSIVE BY DANIEL MATTHEWS AND ADRIAN KAJUMBA: A percentage of Reading's U23 squad will be affected, understood to be those less likely to be involved with the first team.

EXCLUSIVE: Out-of-contract players are going to clash with EFL clubs over plans to ask them to play through July without extra payment. Many are coming to the end of their contracts in June.

The figures come from an annual survey carried out by the EFL titled 'Staff Salary Benchmarking 2019'. Marked 'strictly private and confidential', it was handed to clubs in November.

SPORTS AGENDA: Big, unexpected news out of the BBC on Friday when, in an illuminatingly terse email, staff were informed that Radio 5 Live Sport editor Mike Carr had left the building.

The Aston Villa captain has auctioned off the famous No 10 shirt with all proceeds going to NHS Charities Together following the outbreak of the coronavirus.

NASSER HUSSAIN IN CAPE TOWN: Ben Stokes is one of the best and most complete fielders in world cricket. I can only really think of Chris Jordan as someone who comes anywhere near him.

NASSER HUSSAIN IN CAPE TOWN: It was on this same Newlands ground that I first thought England might have found someone special when Jimmy Anderson burst through in 2003.

NASSER HUSSAIN IN PORT ELIZABETH: There should be no doubt Jofra Archer is the best man to replace Jimmy Anderson in the third Test here and must be given every chance to prove himself.

NASSER HUSSAIN IN PORT ELIZABETH: When the ICC asked me to vote for my world cricketer of the year, it was an absolute no-brainer. I just ticked the box that said Ben Stokes.

This feels like the changing of the England guard now. Over the last 10 days of Test cricket we have seen Joe Root fully in charge of his side.

NASSER HUSSAIN: The real challenges will come with India next winter and Australia the following one, but this comfortable 3-1 series win represents the green shoots of recovery for Joe Root's England.

NASSER HUSSAIN: If you were picking a tennis squad to play on clay you wouldn't fill it with grass court specialists so I can see the argument for horses-for-courses selections.

NASSER HUSSAIN: You have to think outside the box at times like this and Sky had the idea of trying to emulate Gogglebox with their look at the last day at Headingley.

Amy Schumer is hoping for the sympathy vote to get nominated in September's Primetime Emmys.

Her baby son Gene will be eight weeks old on Sunday. And Amy Schumer uploaded a sweet Instagram snap of her happily snoozing newborn this Friday.

They just welcomed son Gene into the world in May. But on Tuesday, comedienne Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fischer put their two-month-old on the hot seat as they jokingly grilled him

They were pregnancy buddies, delivering their new additions with weeks of one another.

Scientists from Kaiser Permanente in Southern California looked at nearly 50,000 women. Some endured hyperemesis gravidarum, while others had more comfortable pregnancies.

The comedian, 38, took to Instagram to post a picture of herself looking shocked on the loo with a pregnancy test stick next to her.

The beautiful brunette supermodel, 32, who is expecting a little boy with her filmmaker husband, 31-year-old Justin Ervin, in January, was spotted out in the Big Apple on Friday

The 38-year-old comedian took to Instagram as she rested in bed with her celebrity chef husband Chris Fischer, 39, and their baby boy Gene.

The 38-year-old said her doctors were 'amazed' she was able to carry a baby with the severity of her endometriosis, which indicated 'with no question' that she would need the C-section, she shared Friday.

She's been incredibly candid about her journey to becoming a mother, the challenges she's faced, and her struggle to give her young son a sibling in the future.

Amy Schumer happily showed off her 10-month-old son Gene as she chatted with the singer about staying positive amid the crisis.

Amy Schumer took to Instagram to send 'love to all the pregnant ladies' who are currently in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. 'We are thinking about you, too,' wrote Schumer.

Schumer, 38, shares her little boy with husband Chris Fischer, 40, who is a professional chef.

Amy Schumer took to Instagram on Wednesday afternoon to share candid footage of her 11-month-old son Gene enjoying his 'first movie' with dad Chris Fischer.

Amy Schumer is being sued for copyright infringement, according to a new lawsuit filed in New York on Tuesday and obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.

Amy Schumer has been holed up at home in NYC with husband Chris Fischer and their son with Gene amid COVID-19.

Schumer is also seen in the photo crouched down alongside her firstborn who will turn one on May 5, She is dressed in a black hoodie and wearing angular red-framed sunglasses.

It's been another insane year, as Britain's prolonged collective Brexit dementia reduced us all to a quarrelling, squabbling, sneering rabble of self-righteous lunatics

New year, new decade, new start… or perhaps not. My only plan for 2020 is to sit back and laugh as friends make an attention-seeking, virtue-signalling fool of themselves doing #DryJanuary

After Laurence Fox's hilariously anti-woke performance on Question Time, Lily Allen said: 'Sick to death of luvvies like Fox going on TV and forcing their opinions on everybody else'

Back to the Good Morning Britain studios after three weeks in America, to find Susanna Reid in full-blown coronavirus alert mode. She has declared herself strictly non-contact

Bob Geldof said he would never be interviewed by me because, as he put it in his typical fruity language: 'You're too f****** good a journalist and will get me to say stuff I don't want to say!'

'How bad is it?' I whispered to Susanna Reid. 'It's not great,' she giggled. 'There are some… blending issues.'

Honor Blackman, my favourite Bond girl as sassy Pussy Galore, died, aged 94, at her home in Lewes, East Sussex, three miles from my village of Newick

They kept their holiday a secret, but finally Liam Payne has shared details of his holiday to the Maldives with his partner Cheryl, saying how he enjoyed the peace from their fame.

The 24-year-old - who often gushes about his son in interviews as he jets around the world for his pop career - joins the likes of Prince William, Rio Ferdinand and Simon Thomas on the shortlist.

Cher Lloyd has given birth to her first child, revealing she welcomed a baby girl on Friday alongside husband Craig Monk.

The personality known as Cheryl is in negotiations to join the cast of West End musical Chicago, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.

She's been through the mill when it comes to her love life, with two failed marriages and her recent fresh split from the father of son Bear, Liam Payne.

Gareth Southgate’s young England team will face Croatia in the 2018 World Cup semi-final on Wednesday, and more people than ever are starting to believe, including many celebrities.

The singer continued her whistle-stop tour of Dublin as she left her hotel on Monday, after arriving in the city at the weekend.

The One Direction star, 24, was clearly in high spirits while posing for a series of Instagram posts from an unknown coastal location.

According to The Mirror, presenter Scarlett Moffatt, Corrie star Catherine Tyldesley and diver Tom Daley are tipped for the 2018 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Cheryl sent fans into a frenzy over the weekend as she made her debut as a judge on BBC talent show The Greatest Dancer.

Grandmothers who've kept their coach-built prams bought in the seventies revealed the reaction they receive when using them for strolls with their grandchildren today.