The current football season must be voided to protect football authorities from a 'corporate manslaughter charge'.
That's according to former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan, who believes the current campaign cannot be finished, behind closed doors or otherwise, and that Leeds United should be denied a return to the Premier League.
The season is currently on hold due to the coronavirus crisis, and Jordan believes authorities must reconsider their preliminary plans to resume in mid-June.
Speaking on talkSPORT , the former Palace said he wants efforts up to this point to be null and void and believes authorities run the risk of getting into legal trouble should they find a way to continue.
“I think we are in a situation where the best-case scenario in my view is that we lose the season,” said Jordan.
“Liverpool aren’t champions, Leeds aren’t promoted, Aston Villa aren’t relegated, Norwich aren’t relegated. We are really into that territory now.
“As much as I don’t want to be a doomsday merchant, we have got a disease we don’t have a vaccine for, while this isn’t a problem in everyone’s workplace, everyone isn’t spitting and kicking each other as footballers do.
“You cannot have a situation where a global sport of this magnitude has a player who becomes infected, which is an absolute inevitability because they are going to get infected until we find a vaccine.
“And what happens then, corporate manslaughter?”
Jordan went on to express his belief that coronavirus will continue to cause issues in the UK for another year.
He added: "Everything falls secondary to public health, players’ health and the health of people who work around the stadium and the health of players’ families because of the policing and management of how players are going to interact with COVID-19 in our eco-system.
“This is going to be there for another 12 months until we work out what it does, how it does it and how we can find out some kind of methodology of how we can live with it. The challenge is what is going to change?
“Is COVID-19 going to go away in the next six weeks? Unlikely.
“If out of the clear blue sky, we have a contagion rate that drops, and we have a viral load in people which has been identified by scientists as being so slow that the RNS rate is 0.1 then possibly, but I think we are really challenged.
“Don’t make any decisions now. But the idea that suddenly we are going to switch the lights on in June to me is inconceivable.”
