West Ham defender Aaron Cresswell has admitted that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has left him “petrified” for the safety of his newborn daughter.
The 30-year-old left-back and his Hammers’ team-mates have been following individual fitness and nutrition programmes from their homes since the decision to bring football in England to a halt during the middle of March.
Although the Premier League had previously set a return date of April 30, it was announced on Friday that the season has been suspended indefinitely and would not resume until it is “safe and appropriate to do so”.
Cresswell, whose second child Sadie was born just before the escalation of the crisis in the UK, agrees that there should be no rush to restart the campaign. “A