English football’s shutdown until April means season may never be completed

• Suspension of Premier League and EFL provides ‘holding period’
• European Championships set to be postponed until 2021

Senior administrators in football already accept that the postponement of the season due to coronavirus is very likely to last longer than the 3 and 4 April dates provisionally scheduled by the EFL and Premier League respectively for their competitions to resume.

One executive at a Premier League club told the Guardian that the decision taken on Friday morning to postpone all men’s and women’s professional football, which was extended to the grassroots game in Scotland and Wales, provided a “holding period” when the sport would give itself more time to consider the implications of the crisis for the sport.

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