Peter Smith

Sky Sports Gary Neville last week suggested you could take the teams away to a different country which perhaps hadn't been quite so badly affected and play games there and even this morning on Sky Sports News Mark Bosnich was talking about a report that suggested Australia Perth in Australia could even be on the cards and there's even been talk about these seven week football festivals where all the games are played sort of back to back in perhaps one or two arenas are any of these

more quirky ideas on the table, or do you think the way forward is the more conventional way they've already suggested?

Is there any deadline on this decision?

Is there any limit on when it has to be made?

We've spoken previously about players who are out of contract at the end of the season.

How will they be affected if this rolls later and later into the summer?

Absolutely.

And Brian, as you said, important week this week.

So can you just remind us before we sign off here just what to expect over the next seven days or so and what developments we could expect to happen?

Okay, Brian Carvey, thank you very much for joining us today and bringing us up to speed with all of that.

Clearly, there's lots to be threshed out by Premier League clubs, lots of important calls to be made.

And if you stay tuned to Sky Sports News and the Sky Sports website, we'll keep you up to date with all the news and analysis.

But thanks for listening and we'll see you next time.

hello and welcome to this sky sports football podcast where this week we're picking out some of the unsung heroes of this premier league season these are the players who have perhaps gone under the radar haven't generated many headlines but deserve praise for the displays i've been putting in i'm peter smith the sky sports football features editor and joining me to discuss these unheralded stars are features writer adam bait and stats guru matt cheatham adam you on the line there yes i'm here yeah good to be on with two of the uh

And Matt Cheetham, how are you?

Well, that reflects your excellent performance on the podcast.

We're expecting great things from our stats guru this time around.

So Matt, why don't you kick us off, Matt, then?

And we're going to start with a Sheffield United centre-back.

Now recently we ran a series of features on the team of the season and Jack O'Connell made the cut for the team.