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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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John Aldridge

Liverpool claims just unbelievable and anyone saying so is wrong

Hopefully Liverpool get exactly what they deserve this season and that is the Premier League title.

People talk about how this league season won't get finished, but it has to. Next year's league shouldn't start if this one cannot finish.

What is the point? What is the point in starting a season and scrapping it 75 per cent of the way through?

Forget about next year's competition. What has been started simply has to finish. Whether that is two, three, four months down the line, it just has to finish.

Next season is the one that can be retracted or reformed for whatever reason. If it starts at Christmas, for example, then split it in half and have the top half compete for the title or Europe.

The bottom half will be forced to battle for survival. You just can't stop a season without a conclusion. Anyone suggesting it can is wrong.

I cannot believe that it has even been suggested.

The most important thing, of course, is to get people well.

Let's get this country back on its feet and get the world back on track. That, 100 per cent, comes before football and everyone would agree with that.

But when it is all ready to return, it is next season that takes the hit. Not this season.

So everyone will be on the fairly even keel before it all starts and everyone knows what concessions have been put in place.

This season now cannot be impacted any more than it has already. Leeds United or West Brom, for example, try telling those two great clubs that they cannot come up to the Premier League.

It is worth too much money to these clubs and they deserve the chance to try and finish it off to get back into the top flight.

People are still talking about voiding the season, I just cannot understand that. As I say, get the world back on track and then complete the season.

Cancelling three quarters of a season to start a fresh one is frankly ridiculous. It really is.

It's not set in stone that every season has to begin in August. These are unprecedented times and it should be amended to suit the season that is already being played out.

Next season can start when it is permitted, everyone begins a fresh at the same time and it's all on a level playing field.

This season that is here now, it needs finishing. Hopefully common sense will prevail.

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