It’s a step in the right direction.
Now we just have to see whether or not the other authorities will take up the baton and use it to try and start some sort of action on their own.
A letter was released yesterday by the chairman of the EFL Rick Parry, in which they lined out how the EFL season could potentially restart, with the key points of the letter being that they intend to finish the season within a 56 day window with all games being played behind closed doors, and a tentative start date of early June.
How does this effect Sheffield United and the rest of the Premier League?
Well seeing as how the EFL and Premier League work together when it comes to promotion and relegation, this now means that Premier League clubs should ideally be pushed into some form of action of their own.
Now that the EFL are setting out their plan, it’s time that the Premier League set out one of their own. Even if it is something that has to be changed at some point down the road. As American Football coach Herm Edwards once put it, ‘a plan that can’t be changed is a bad plan’, so even if it’s something tentative, at least it’s something.
Will the 19/20 season actually be completed?
Yes
No
I have spoken before about how we as a society could really do with having football back in our lives in some fashion, even if it does have to all take place behind closed doors, and now those at the top in the EFL are starting to put plans together to make sure that all takes place, it’s time that those in the same position in the Premier League put similar things in place.
What about you? Do you think that the EFL putting plans together will encourage those in the Premier League to do the same? Or do you think that they will keep their plans relatively separate?