Quote Originally Posted by mellowmiller View Post
Picking up from your last paragraph Nardendee, I think that could ultimately be a major problem regardless of how this season is eventually concluded.
Just imagine that the authorities end the season as it currently stands and agree an acceptable formula to decide which clubs will be promoted and relegated throughout all levels of the football pyramid. Fine, thank goodness that's sorted, nothing to see here, let's move on.
But the effects of the coronavirus are still being felt so football can not restart for the foreseeable future and debts are becoming unsustainable.
Then a couple of clubs in League 1 go bust followed by four in League 2 and several in the National League. Football is now in disarray because there are gaps in divisions that need to be filled but the situation is still unravelling as some clubs in the Championship say they are struggling to survive and a Premier League club reveals its losses have exceeded £100 million.
OK this is fiction but its not totally unbelievable in this crisis so where would football go then?
Maybe back to being a business that has to support itself with direct paying customers? I know it's a generational thing but if the last 6 weeks have proved anything it is that I can survive without wall to wall TV coverage of football. Match of the Day and Goals on Sunday was good enough until the satellite and cable boys decided to try and show that it wasn't.