Why should footballers be used as guinea pigs for society?
Plenty of reasons for the Premier League to finish but players’ wishes are being ignored
Premier League football was suspended when Mikel Arteta tested positive but now there is a desperation to restart. Photo: Martin Rickett/PA Wire
Anyone who has spent the best part of an hour just waiting to cross a supermarket threshold in the past few weeks will be aware how quickly the outlandish becomes the new normal. Yet even in these strange days it was still odd to hear Gordon Taylor pop up on the radio with the suggestion that shortened games might be the solution to finishing the Premier League season sometime before the clocks go back.
How that would have helped maintain the integrity of the competition or assisted those clubs worried they might be relegated in less than optimum circumstances remained unclear, for the Premier League was pooh-poohing the idea proposed by the Professional Footballers’ Association’s leader as ridiculous and unfounded within hours.