Gonna play devils advocate here. Now obviously a unique situation this. I think the games should have been played on behind closed doors with sick players sitting it out and healthy players playing on.
I Think everyone can agree this virus isn’t going anywhere, say for example the football league takes a month off, every player/staff is virus free and returns to playing.
These footballers are still going to be in the outside world mingling, say somebody catches it again. Do you then suspend the football league again?
The scientists seem unsure as to whether getting this virus makes you immune or less susceptible to it once you’ve recovered and are exposed to it again.
In every other job or working environment (certainly mine) if I caught the virus, isolated myself and healed I would immediately be expected to return to work regardless of others still potentially carrying it.
I completely get and understand why keeping fans away at the moment is for the best, though the UK deciding to do that whilst letting everything else run as normal doesn’t make much sense.
Anyway, likelihood is it’ll all be suspended, probably for a month or two and then resume with next season starting later.
Pretty certain the Euros will be cancelled and likely competitions like the League Cup and Checkatrade trophy removed from next seasons calendar.
Can’t play Euros next summer because the female one is next summer and the final at Wembley ironically enough. UEFA are going to have to take this one on the chin.
Also, actually gutted for Liverpool and Leeds at the moment (yeah I just typed that) of course this is much bigger than football but from a purely football stand point feck me this is a shit situation.