It seems to me that as panic is now more endemic than Corvid-19, which sounds like a bad science fiction planet anyway, is pandemic, the League season is effectively over as regards Football. We should declare leagues in which crowds might be tempted to attend OVER. As teams will have played different numbers of games positions should be decided by the rate at which a team has been accumulating points. In the National League the only controversy this would cause is that Barnet would take Stockport's current play-off place, but as they are currently only 4 points behind with 4 games in hand Stockport wouldn't have much of a case.
All play-offs and finals could be scheduled for mid to the end of May, by which time we'll have had the sense to follow South Korea's lead, which has cut infection rates and created one of the world's lowest fatality rates, after Corvid-19 had looked as though it was going to be absolutely rampant. They haven't gone into lockdown, but have implemented mass, even drive-through, testing, social distancing and voluntary working from home where possible. More controversially they used technology, GPS data from phones and cars, CCTV footage, and card transactions of those confirmed to be infectious to track the at-risk. Their mass-testing regime is free for those suspected of being infectious and those who opt for testing and turn out to be positive. If you ask to be tested and turn out only to be one of the worried well you have to pay, but you've had good news!
So even if it infuriates my good friend Dancing there's the best solution I can come up with. Stop all big football till mid-May which will effectively end Chesterfield's season and copy a successful country, so stop talking about being weeks behind Italy and start transforming ourselves into South Korea. AND sensibly for once we could start the cricket season once the pitches are ready in MID MAY too, rather than freezing-cold early April!
All play-offs and finals could be scheduled for mid to the end of May, by which time we'll have had the sense to follow South Korea's lead, which has cut infection rates and created one of the world's lowest fatality rates, after Corvid-19 had looked as though it was going to be absolutely rampant. They haven't gone into lockdown, but have implemented mass, even drive-through, testing, social distancing and voluntary working from home where possible. More controversially they used technology, GPS data from phones and cars, CCTV footage, and card transactions of those confirmed to be infectious to track the at-risk. Their mass-testing regime is free for those suspected of being infectious and those who opt for testing and turn out to be positive. If you ask to be tested and turn out only to be one of the worried well you have to pay, but you've had good news!
So even if it infuriates my good friend Dancing there's the best solution I can come up with. Stop all big football till mid-May which will effectively end Chesterfield's season and copy a successful country, so stop talking about being weeks behind Italy and start transforming ourselves into South Korea. AND sensibly for once we could start the cricket season once the pitches are ready in MID MAY too, rather than freezing-cold early April!