Football fans will be allowed back into stadiums in the autumn, Boris Johnson has announced.Matches have been played behind closed doors since June when elite competitive sports were allowed to resume for the first time since March.Outlining the next phases of lockdown lifting today, the Prime Minister said fixtures could go ahead in front of live audiences from October."From October, we intend to bring back audiences into stadia and to allow conferences and other business events to resume," he said in a televised address this morning.Pilot projects will take place from August before a wider reopening in autumn, he said.It is not clear when the Premier League season will resume - though it is likely to be no sooner than September or.
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