Premier League season could finish after just two more fixtures

Leicester City may not have any further part to play in the Premier League season, according to the Sunday Times.

With the number of COVID-19 cases only burgeoning in the UK, any possibility of football resuming after April 30 is next to zero.

The UEFA have come up with three plans to bring the league campaigns to a close as of now: a mid-May resumption, an early-June resumption and an end-of-June resumption.

However, not even an optimist would be of the opinion that any of these plans would hold relevance come June. Put another way, we are looking at a long, long period before normality is restored.

So we now have whispers that the Premier League are planning to end the campaign once each club has played 29 games.

Arsenal, Aston Villa, Manchester City and Sheffield United are the only clubs who fall short of that mark, meaning that we will only have two more matches and Leicester won’t be a part of any of them.

Thankfully, if this is how it ends, then Leicester will finish third and qualify for the UEFA Champions League for only the second time in their history.

But we also cannot ignore the fact that the clubs fighting for survival – or even a European spot – will feel hard done by with all sorts of scenarios still possible.

So all things considered – even the financial repercussions – the only fair decision here would still be to void the season.

Of course, the PL’s brand will take a battering but then again, the clubs’ interests cannot be ignored.