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Chaplains gear up for Premier League season

The nation's top football league resumes on Friday evening when Arsenal welcomes Leicester City to the Emirates Stadium in north London.

The main chaplain at Swansea City said top-flight players can feel under a lot of pressure to succeed but there is someone they can turn to if they feel overwhelmed.

Rev Kev Johns told Premier: "They (the players) may not want to go to talk to the chaplain every single day of the year and that's fine.

"But it's important for people in the football club to know there's someone there rooting for them and there's always someone they can go to confidentially."

Twenty teams are hoping to be crowned champion in the Premier League, including newly-promoted Newcastle United, Brighton & Hove and Huddersfield Town.

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Rev Johns said: "Footballers make their mistakes very much in the public eye and sometimes, if they make a mistake on the pitch, they make it in front of millions because there are millions of people watching all over the world."

Seven matches get underway on Saturday - including Watford verses Liverpool and Brighton verses Man City. On Sunday, Newcastle host Spurs and West Ham travel to Manchester United.

Chaplain at Man Utd, Rev John Boyers told Premier: "It'll be a very interesting season because there must be six or seven clubs perhaps who would hope to get into the top four.

"I think competition will be pretty tough but I never pray that the team would win."

Rev Johns said chaplains work with players behind the scenes, explaining: "[we are] supporting them, encouraging them. A lot of the stuff, people never get to hear about - and rightly so."

"In many ways, it's working as a pastor would in a church and in any community."

Meanwhile, new research by Inrix has found Premier League teams pay on average more than double the cost to park at foodball stadiums compared to the fans of top German teams.

The transport analysis business found Tottenham Spurs fans are paying the most.

Click here to listen to Premier's Alex Williams speaking with Rev Kevin Johns:

Click here to listen to Premier's Jeff Buckeridge speaking with Rev John Boyers :

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