EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES AND SAMI MOKBEL: Sacked Charlton board members have charged the cash-strapped club more than £575,000 in consultancy fees and expenses.

The PFA are on a collision course with several Championship clubs after Birmingham urged their players defer up to 50 per cent of their salaries for the rest of the season. 

The Elland Road side sought to bring in a new striker during the winter window after Arsenal cut short Eddie Nketiah's loan spell, leaving Patrick Bamford as their only option.

A significant number of Championship, League One and Two players are borrowed from elsewhere, with a number of those approaching the end of their contracts at their parent clubs.

MIKE KEEGAN: The global game's governing body has recognised the current coronavirus crisis as a 'force majeure' - an unforeseen circumstance that prevents a contract from being fulfilled.

EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN AND DANIEL MATTHEWS: The crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak has made any likelihood of football being played at the end of next month impossible.

The coronavirus lockdown could last for another six months and yet the football authorities are already discussing plans to restart. Our reporters have their say on how football should proceed.

Charlton have announced losses of £10.1million for the year ending June 30 2019, which matched what was lost for the same period the previous year.

EXCLUSIVE BY IAN HERBERT: Many clubs are increasingly sanguine about losing players, because critical cash flow problems mean they will soon be insolvent.

The Scottish Professional Football League's contentious resolution is resting on just one Championship club that failed to vote by Friday's 5pm deadline. The body received 39 responses.

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: Football League clubs have been at pains to keep their players' secret sessions under wraps so not jeopardise the money they'll receive from the Government.

Dr Zach Binney, an epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, says tens of thousands of spectators in close proximity in a stadium is 'very, very dangerous.'

EFL Chairman Rick Parry has described the coronavirus pandemic as football's most 'challenging issue' other than the two World Wars. He added that football could resume behind closed doors.

Hunter won 28 England caps. The legendary defender made 540 appearances for Leeds and won two First Division titles, the FA Cup, League Cup and two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups.

England's top football cop has said that playing football matches at their original venues would 'present challenges' to the police and has suggested that neutral venues be considered.

EXCLUSIVE BY IAN LADYMAN: After an EFL board meeting, club captains and PFA reps have been told to relay to their team-mates the very real possibility of no more football being played.

EXCLUSIVE: On Friday, Premier League clubs will discuss the numerous obstacles to overcome if football is to return from the coronavirus suspension sooner rather than later.

The EFL are locked in talks about how to resume the campaign behind closed doors amid the coronavirus crisis, which is threatening to bring an early end to the League One and Two seasons.

Meslier, currently on loan from French club Lorient, has made a huge impression after replacing Kiko Casilla while he began a suspension for using racist language towards Jonathan Leko.

Relegation is likely to apply when the Premier League resumes and the FA Cup final has been pencilled in for August 8 at Wembley as more details of football's Project Restart emerged.

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.

Speaking via videolink to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday, Parry confirmed that discussions have led him to believe that promotion and relegation will go ahead as normal.

SIMON JONES: The ugly row behind Charlton Athletic's ownership has taken another twist after police were called in to recoup two club cars from former chairman Matt Southall.

IAN LADYMAN: England's top clubs will survive Covid-19. But for those looking to join them for more than the occasional season, the landscape threatens to become unrecognisable.

Should the Premier League and Championship return the vast majority of the outstanding 200 matches may be played at different hours of the day with all of them shown on television or online.

NASSER HUSSAIN IN CAPE TOWN: It is an English trait to focus on what a player is not quite so good at, but after his century it is best to concentrate on what Dom Sibley can do very well.

INSIGHT BY NASSER HUSSAIN: Yes, I know Kagiso Rabada already had thee demerit points and has been a serial offender. He has probably been warned time and again.

NASSER HUSSAIN IN JOHANNESBURG: Joe Root endured a chaotic, frenetic morning ahead of the first day of this final Test but the England captain impressed me with his calm decision making.

NASSER HUSSAIN: The England dressing room did not exactly need lifting anyway but if anything could lift any team it has been Mark Wood's performance here.

Etiquette expert William Hanson stepped out of his refined comfort zone and onto a Ryanair flight from Nice - to find out if the no-frills airline 'could really be as bad as they say it is'...

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

The 38-year-old Emmy winner has signed on to create, direct, write, executive produce, and star in the scripted show, which starts streaming late 2020

Speaking about Amy following her, she said: 'I am shocked! She put up a video supporting me when I was in the villa and then she sent me another message again'

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

Bill Murray just revealed one of his dream jobs. While on Amy Schumer's podcast 3 Girls, 1 Keith, the 69-year-old comedian shared the one job he submitted his application for.

Amy Schumer was covered up in a classy camel overcoat after attending Charlize Theron's Africa Outreach Project fundraiser. She was with her husband Chris Fischer.

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 actress, 38, revealed she sent her trainer AJ Fisher a cease and desist letter for her 'unduly punishing physical exercises.' The Trainwreck star talked about it on her podcast 3 Girls 1 Keith.

Karlie Kloss, Kate Hudson, and Amy Schumer flaunted their fashionista flare at Stella McCartney's Stellabration in New York City on Monday.

The 38-year-old comedienne welcomed her only child - son Gene Atell Fischer - back in May with husband Chris Fischer.

Amy Schumer has passed on her beloved and rather terrifying childhood stuffed animal Pokey to her son Gene, as revealed in a new Instagram post.

Schumer has been particularly candid about the changes her body has gone through since her first pregnancy, even revealing her C-section scar and IVF injection marks.

While she may be relatively new to parenthood, Amy Schumer has already learnt that sometimes the best toys are the cheapest

Amy Schumer uploaded another one of her deadpan selfie videos to Instagram on Friday morning, in light of the wave of cancellations and shutdowns sweeping the nation.

Venus, 39, is broadcasting workouts live on Instagram every weekday at noon. On Friday, Serena and Amy, both 38, joined her for different portions of the broadcast.

Like many others during this period of at-home isolation, she's been trying to remain active on walks around the neighborhood.

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

The stand-up comedian - who appeared on Comedy Central and The Opie & Anthony Show - passed away on Monday after the embolism occurred over the weekend.

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.