Coronavirus and football.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Life isn’t fair though Ram.

It didn’t feel ‘fair’ when we lost at Wembley six years ago but sh*t happens and you have to get on with it

Personally I can’t see the point of abandoning a season which is 75% complete any more than I can see the point of abandoning a one day cricket match or - I think - a motor race once they have gone past a certain point.

I still think adding on the average points per game - taking into account remaining home and away fixtures/records - to the current totals would be the fairest way, but doubtless some would seek to complicate things further. As ever there will be winners and losers and the losers will not be happy but then, in the real as opposed to the virtual world, they wouldn’t be happy with disallowed goals, missed open goals, incorrect sendings off or crucial injuries and suspensions either.

As you know, my view is in favour of abandoning the season. Your solution is simplistic in the extreme and takes no account of relative strength of schedule. I guess its possible to factor this in too, but the more assumptions and "virtual results" that you factor in, the more it is open to criticism and legal challenge.

Abandoning the season creates far less losers. Liverpool, those in the automatic promotion places in the other three leagues + national League and maybe to a lesser extent those currently in the playoff positions. Maybe a dozen teams might have a grouse as opposed to perhaps 100 who are happy or neutral. Creating a hypothetical end to the season would leave nobody really happy.

The person of ill defined skintone in the woodpile is of course qualification for Europe. If indeed there are European competitions next year. It might be easier to, in effect, run the 19-20 European competitions again in 20-21 inviting the clubs that took place in 19-20 to go again. Unfortunate for a team like Leicester, lucky for a team like Spurs. Manchester City would have to be replaced.......

But this way Liverpool, Leicester, Manchester United, Leeds and Forest are losers, not that this is in any way influencing my thoughts.