Peterborough United to face a punishing new year fixture schedule and assistant manager set to be named

Peterborough United could face the most hectic Football League fixture schedule in the club’s history in the second-half of the 2020-21 League One season.
By Alan Swann
Published 19th Jul 2020, 09:50 BST
Posh defender Frankie Kent is all smiles as he turned up to have a Covid-19 test at the club training ground. Photo: Jake Baxter.Posh defender Frankie Kent is all smiles as he turned up to have a Covid-19 test at the club training ground. Photo: Jake Baxter.
Posh defender Frankie Kent is all smiles as he turned up to have a Covid-19 test at the club training ground. Photo: Jake Baxter.

The new third tier season is expected to start on Saturday, September 12, but with the UK Government only allowing restricted capacities at football stadia from October, clubs are pushing to have a considerable majority of the fixtures played in the new year when it is hoped all crowd restrictions will have been lifted.

Many lower league clubs rely on matchday gate receipts for the bulk of their income.

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As things stand Posh are set to play a first round Carabao League Cup tie on Saturday, September 5 followed by a Leasing.com Trophy game on September 8/9.

The Posh first team squad are due to return for pre-season traing tomorrow (July 20) providing there were no negative results from extensive Covid-19 tests conducted on Friday.

Posh are expected to announce former club coach Mark Robson as the new first-team assistant manager following the departure of Gavin Strachan to Celtic. Robson has given up a job in the England coaching set-up to return to Posh. He worked at London Road for two seasons between 2010 and 2012.

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