Gary Neville says behind closed doors games should only go ahead if there is a firm plan in place to control or disperse crowds that would likely gather outside stadiums across Britain.

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.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Many of Birmingham's players have agreed to defer up to 50 per cent of their wages from April to help ensure all the non-footballing staff will be paid in full

EXCLUSIVE: EFL clubs want to access funds made available to business as part of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak last week.

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.

Huddersfield Town used Premier League parachute payments to agree last summer's takeover - leaving them behind a financial eight ball.

EXCLUSIVE BY STEPHEN MCGOWAN: As Sportsmail first revealed, American businessman Conway is in the market to add an SPFL team to his footballing portfolio.

PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor has said the union oppose a blanket wage deferral for players, fearing clubs will try to cash in on the coronavirus crisis.

EXCLUSIVE BY ADRIAN KAJUMBA: Championship clubs have been left quickly counting the cost of football's shutdown with some sides already more than £5m down.

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.

EXCLUSIVE BY IAN HERBERT AND SIMON JONES: The PFA have dug their heels in over crippled clubs attempts to reduce their wage bill in the coronavirus crisis.

EXCLUSIVE: Millwall furloughed a number of their non-playing staff last week - but have now informed their footballing personnel of their intention to place them on the scheme.

Brentford say they can no longer 'reliably forecast' when their new stadium will be completed having been forced to scale back work on the project due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Football Association chairman Greg Clarke has urged players to settle their pay cut disputes, calling on them to 'share the pain' of the coronavirus crisis.

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

In the Championship, things are not always simple. Players are under pressure from the public to take cuts, but it's not easy, as the discrepancy between what lads earn at this level can be huge.

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.

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: Football League clubs have put their squads on mandatory leave - but told their British players not to leave the country. EFL have confirmed training is suspended until May 16.

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.

Chelsea will have to pay £5million if they want to sign 19-year-old Derby midfielder Max Bird, who impressed Blues boss Frank Lampard when he was manager of the Championship club.

SPECIAL REPORT - JACK GAUGHAN: The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the need for football to reboot. 'Sustainability' and 'reset' have become buzzwords over the past weeks.

EXCLUSIVE: Football League clubs are growing closer to voting for the introduction of salary caps to safeguard the futures of stricken institutions, Sportsmail can reveal.

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.

EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN: Sources have disclosed that a peace treaty is among a number of measures being discussed by various executives as the COVID-19 crisis continues.

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.'

EXCLUSIVE: Championship clubs are pushing increasingly hard for the introduction of a permanent salary cap amid the ongoing battle to force their players into accepting wage cuts.

Gary Neville is 'acting as a peacemaker' in the ongoing dispute over wage cuts between English Football League clubs and players during the coronavirus crisis, according to The Sun. 

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.

Championship strugglers Luton Town have dismissed manager Graeme Jones and three of his coaching staff as the coronavirus lockdown bites down on EFL football.

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.

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.

In a letter to the Football League's Championship, Leagues One and League Two clubs today Parry confirmed the EFL remain in talks with the government about a return date.

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.

With drastic measures proposed, involving promotions without relegations and revised leagues with additional places, Sportsmail takes a look at how English football could shape up.

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.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: The Football League are seeking to re-negotiate the controversial television contract with Sky Sports that came close to splitting the three divisions last season. 

EFL chairman Rick Parry has pleaded for a rescue package from the Premier League with clubs financially crippled by the coronavirus crisis. He also branded parachute payments 'evil'.

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.

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.

The FA has the power to block any plans by the Premier League to axe relegation. Some clubs have insisted that they will only back Project Restart proposals if the threat of demotion is gone.