The completion of the 2019-20 Premier League season hangs in the balance, with football suspended everywhere in Europe - apart from Belarus - due to the global coronavirus pandemic. With the 2020-21 season scheduled to start on Saturday August 8th, time is running out to finish the current campaign. However in his column this morning, Ken Early suggests it might make more sense to do so, rather than start all over again. He writes: “Yet this logic also depends on the assumption that it will be possible to begin the 20-21 season on time. If distancing measures are still needed in August - and if the virus continues to circulate in the community, then why wouldn’t they be?

Source: The Irish Times March 30, 2020 06:56 UTC