Newcastle’s players were sent back home on Friday with specially-devised individual training programmes for each of them. The Magpies were the first club to ban handshaking at their training ground three weeks ago and Steve Bruce has revealed that they have been preparing for a potential lockdown for several days.
While injured players requiring daily treatment and physiotherapy will continue to report to their Little Benton base on a regular basis, the vast majority of the Toon squad have been told to stay at home until further notice.
Most of them have mini-gyms at their Tyneside bases and the club's coaching staff handed over training dossiers to every member of the squad within hours of the announcement that the Premier League was
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