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23-03-2020 | 21:13 • Football
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Rio Ferdinand explains why 'Premier League should just be voided'
Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand believes the Premier League 2019/20 season should be nulled and voided.
Since the games have been stopped in the Premier League, the main question is whether Liverpool could get their first title in 30 years, if matches don’t restart. Some suggest that the 25-point advantage over Manchester City is enough to consider them champions, while others are completely against this idea.
Ferdinand says there are more important things now than football, and if necessary, the season should be stopped, which means no team will be relegated or become a champion.
“I just think the Premier League should just be voided," Ferdinand said (via Daily Star)
"Just void it. I know there are going to be a lot of Liverpool fans going 'Oh Rio, it's just because you support Manchester United and it's Liverpool'.
"It's not that, it's just that I don't see a way that it can be done, where health isn't compromised. Simple as that. All this behind closed doors business, you're still going to have the players there. What, are the players not classed as part of society?
"There are players who are going to go down lame from the illness, who might not have recovered or who will catch it from someone. Then it spreads to other players, so it won't be fair, it's not a level playing field, I just don't feel it's right.
"And there's going to have to be people in that stadium to man the stadium – security, etcetera, as well in there, which puts everyone at risk.
"At this time, all this 'we're gonna win this or so and so might not go down or so and so might not get promoted', you've got to put those type of things to one side.
"This is about life and death situations, about society and the wider grand scheme of things. So, football, it ain't that serious in that sense.
"Listen, we all love it. I love football, we all love it. But it ain't life or death. When it comes to matters like these, you've got to put people's health before anything and I just think that's the way it should be.
"Start the season with a clean slate. Once this health situation is all ironed out, all sorted out, then we can start a new season, because I just don't see it happening in that time.
"Now if we wake up in the next month and it's all gone and the country can get back to normal immediately, then I think a conversation can then happen about that.
"But I don't see that happening, not from what we're being told."
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