A READERS’ poll has revealed a desire among football fans to end the 2019/20 season now due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The current Premier League and Football League campaigns are currently postponed until the end of April but that date is likely to be extended by a number of weeks, if not months.
From the fifth-tier downwards, seasons are already being scrapped with the National League asking the FA to call time on their fixture list.
Clubs at that level have played between 36 and 39 games of the calendar and are seeking guidance on how to fairly adjudicate the promotion and relegation spaces.
And now supporters of the upper levels of English football reckon enough is enough.
A SunSport poll on whether readers are ready to scrap 2019/20 came out with 57 per cent in favour.
Some 23 per cent demanded the league be played out no matter what with 20 per cent unsure.
But that is not necessarily a call to deprive Liverpool of their first league title in 30 years, the inevitable Premier League champions boasting a 25-point gap over second place as things stand.
Earlier in the month, 75 per cent of fans told us the Reds deserved the trophy if the season was terminated early.
This quandary is one being considered by European football’s top leagues with coronavirus still spreading despite several countries entering a strict lockdown.
Even if the virus does ease off and the measures reduced, sport may find itself at the back of the queue due to the need for emergency service workers at matches – whether they are behind closed doors or not.
And the risk of coronavirus re-emerging cannot be dismissed either, with large gatherings posing a threat and being blamed for the infection of 40,000 people when Italian side Atalanta played Valencia in the Champions League.
