I just can't see how they can do it

Behind closed doors obviously, all players and sports staff tested negative obviously - but how do they handle it if one club has a positive result? - even a big gash can be stitched by onsite medical people but what if there's a bad break or tear needing emergency hospital treatment. At a time when emergency departments are under extreme pressure.

Who explains to the relatives of someone denied an emergency bed that an overpaid footballer's ankle was more important than their relative's life?

The only options really are

- continue/conclude the season next season, do promoval in October or something, start the 2020/21 season in November, extend that into next summer if needs be and maybe cut the cup competitions that year, no winter break - it still makes for a lot of pressure on playing staff and we're assuming no recurrence/flare-ups of covid which is ... optimistic.

- declare the season void, agree to take the £750m as maybe a cut of £200m over each of the following four season. This is not fair and wrong in many ways. But it's the least worst option that I can see and is practical and workable. Maybe (or maybe not) fudge it somehow e.g. Leeds and WBA are deemed up, five teams go down next season, give the title to Liverpool (honestly they do deserve it, much as I hate to say so). There would still be lawsuits of course around promoval and European spots but making this a joint decision might (or might not) help with that.

More pressing is the need for the PFA to stop being c**ts, and also frankly for the PL to push some money down the pyramid to lower league clubs. Even we as bottom club can survive without gates for a few months. Very few clubs in lower tiers have that privilege and we and the other PL teams should absolutely be looking to help out.

Football's the least of anyone's worries just now but all this needs sorting and it will need people to vote against their selfish interests and think about the game at large. More likely you'd have to hope from clubs run by people with a footballing background/interest than the oligarchs/"business people" with a plaything, but we will have to see.

Step One is PFA to get head out of arse, though.

Posted By: Yurik Hunt, Apr 3, 13:34:26