This is how the Championship table based on PPG would look with it being touted as one potential way to finish the 2019/20 season.
The English Football League maintain in wanting to resume the campaign and allow clubs to play out a finish.
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There are suggestions plans are being drawn up to play matches behind-closed-doors in a bid to ensure the season is completed.
A growing amount of clubs however are calling for the season to be ended, the lower down the football pyramid you go the more clubs rely on matchday income and the prospect of fans being allowed back yet it’s going to be months before that can happen, increasing pressure for a decision to be made.
Reports claim that businesses such as pubs and restaurants may not be able to open until Christmas.
Further talks are planned with the EFL this week about the options available how to end the current campaign.
See the Championship table if it came to being based on PPG (points per game) should the season get cancelled…
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What’s the latest regarding the Premier League and EFL? Well six options are currently being looked at. They are : –
1) Scrap it
Declare the 2019/20 season null and void with no promotion or relegation.
2) Finish the season now as it stands
Liverpool would be handed the Premier League title.
Norwich City, Aston Villa and Bournemouth would be relegated. Manchester City, Leicester City and Chelsea would qualify for the Champions League.
In the Championship, Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion would go up – but the issue of play-offs would be another argument.
Luton Town, Barnsley and Charlton Athletic will go down.
3) Behind-closed-doors
Play the remaining games within a tight schedule with no supporters and just minimal back-room staff and media.
4) Games in quarantine
All fixtures would be played at neutral venues across the country, with players in lockdown at local hotels to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
5) Play abroad
Qatar and China has been put forward as a viable destination to see out the current Premier League season now that death rates have significantly lowered recently.
6) Play until the very end, however long it takes
The new 2020/21 campaign was initially set to begin in early August, however, and pushing that back will have a knock-on effect for Euro 2020, which has already been postponed until 2021.
There are also the issues of contracts, with a June 30 cut-off point as standard.
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Tony
25th April 2020 at 11:47 am
Points per game top 3 go up bottom 3 go down then you can start your plans for next season
Malcolm Scott
28th April 2020 at 4:25 pm
You can’t declare the season on a ppg basis. Firstly it doesn’t allow for teams who have played/ not played top teams nor the effect of momentum. Hull were in free fall Luton were 2nd in form tables. It either has to be played out or voided. Also there are teams which were due to get points deductions which may have had an effect on the final places.