A number of Premier League clubs are looking at the concept of artificial crowd noise

Brighton & Hove Albion are one of a number of Premier League clubs that have discussed playing artificial crowd noise to generate an atmosphere should the football season resume behind closed doors.

The Times understands that a number of clubs are looking at ways to minimise the loss of home advantage if games were to be played without any fans watching at their scheduled grounds, rather than at neutral venues, which remains a possibility. Clubs have also looked into covering the swathes of empty seats that would be visible to broadcasters.

“We’ve started to give some thought internally into, ‘Could we dress the stadium?’ ” Paul Barber, Brighton’s chief executive, said. “Could we make the stadium better than just blue empty seats in our case?