Former Newcastle United boss Sam Allardyce has expressed his fears over whether the Premier League season will be concluded.
The ex-Toon and Sunderland manager - speaking to beIN Sports - does not expect football to get back to normal until medication is made available to eliminate the threat of COVID-19.
With the game's chiefs in England insisting it is feasible to finish the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two, Allardyce said: "We’d all love for the season to finish, and nobody as much as me,” he said.
"But how can we even think about it?
"We’re lambasting everyone in this country for not doing enough social distancing, there are lockdowns far worse than this in other countries, so how can we think about going back and playing football?
"I can’t see us getting back to playing football until such time as we have a vaccination that clears up this virus.
"That makes life very difficult for everyone to say we want to finish every division and match in this country."
And given Newcastle season ticket holders have asked the club for refunds and many have scrapped their Sky Sports subscriptions, Big Sam feels that the paying public's change in salaries and loss of jobs mean the game's face could change for some time to come.
Allardyce said: "The global devastation we’re suffering means that everybody’s income will probably reduce dramatically.
"We’re all feeling the benefit - or have felt the benefit - of subscribers paying to watch Premier League football throughout the world.
"But will that happen again? Will people have the money to say that we can pay that much this month to watch the Premier League?
"I’m not so sure. It may come back eventually when the country turns around, but for the time being, I think there’s going to be a shortage of finance.
"We may all have to adjust for a while before that comes back."
