Premier League ‘should not return’ just to give Liverpool title and promote Leeds from Championship, says Simon Jordan
Simon Jordan has argued that if the football season cannot be completed properly then it should be voided.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused the Premier League and EFL to be suspended since early March.
Simon Jordan says the Premier League season must be scrapped
Discussions are underway between the leagues, clubs and government over how to safely restart the competition.
The Premier League’s ‘Project Restart’ could see games resume in June but behind closed doors and possibly at neutral venues.
Some clubs, such as Brighton, West Ham and Aston Villa, have voiced public opposition to the idea of neutral venues.
Jordan said that the Premier League should not come back merely to protect broadcast deals and so Liverpool can win the title and Leeds be promoted.
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He wrote in The Sun: “The season, for all manner of reasons, needs to be completed properly, not by changing the format. And, as yet, it hasn’t reached the tipping point where that’s an impossibility.
“But, frankly, if a June-only return date is available for football to complete its calendar then the 2019-20 season should be voided.
“In the 1974 Charity Shield, two domestic powerhouses playing in that game, Liverpool and Leeds, would never have thought, 46 years later, one would be vying for their first championship in 30 years and the other out of the elite for nearly two decades.
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“They will both be apoplectic about any voiding notion.
“But bringing back football in the eye of a pandemic, to protect Premier League broadcast deals which can be renegotiated, to give Liverpool the title and perhaps promote Leeds and West Brom, makes scant sense to the majority of the football world.”
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