How the Premier League plans to finish the season and when new one could start? The details have come out in reports published over the weekend.
It aims to resume top-flight matches from the 1st of June and complete all fixtures in a six-week period, and ambitiously start the 2020/21 season on the 8th of August.
It is yet to mention whether the English Football League would follow in the same footsteps, though as we all know, football chiefs in England agreed to extend the 2019/20 season ‘indefinitely’ given all football has been suspended until at least the end of April.
This plan also includes completing all FA Cup matches, with the competition postponed ahead of the quarter-final round.
According to the Telegraph, all matches will be played behind closed doors, and the government would need to ‘sanction the presence of emergency crews’ within stadiums.
The plan is understood to comply with broadcasting requirements for both this and next season, as that campaign would be allowed to begin on time. This would avoid any possible financial disaster which has been rumoured were the season be declared null and void and go unfinished.
Over 5,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the United Kingdom so far, with the latest statistics showing 233 deaths.
To summarise:
– Matches resume from June 1 and are played in six-week timeframe
– All games, including remaining FA Cup fixtures, completed four weeks before start of 2020/21 campaign
– Every match played behind closed doors with government needing to sanction presence of emergency crews
– 2020/21 season starts, as scheduled, on Saturday, August 8
Fans reacted to how the Premier League plans to finish the season…
People are dying. I love football but it can fuck off until everyone is over this virus. It’s a sport, we are dealing with a crisis here.
— Grumpy Bill (@BigGrumpyBill) March 21, 2020
Everybody's got a plan until you get punched in the face
— Kyle (@Lilywhite4life) March 22, 2020
No chance it’s going be like Italy soon , people are not self isolating ,people need to wake up before it’s too late
— thomas griffin (@thomasgriffin2) March 22, 2020
It won’t, unfortunately. Next game in the PL will be the first game of next season
— Jordan Burrows (@JordanB13505888) March 22, 2020
Absolutely no chance
— Danny Rosamond (@DannyRosamond) March 22, 2020
They do but they think about money first
— Shaun (@Shaunsm0088) March 21, 2020
Wait 2 or 3 more weeks when the dead a day will be in the hundreds each day ..Simple answer ..it will be NO
— Ian Barton (@ianmcfc123) March 21, 2020
I can see no sport til January.
— Steve (@SteveARees) March 21, 2020
Wishful thinking
— Bernie (@EffBeeJay1) March 22, 2020
Not important! People’s lives should be the priority. All sport can be put on hold.
— Nick Bennett (@NickBennett58) March 22, 2020
Aye get football back even if a few die along the way – great attitude and example .
— Henry Porter (@HenryPorterNot) March 21, 2020
10 games in 6 weeks………not going to happen!
— Graham Palmer (@DoctorGP) March 21, 2020
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