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Josh Challies & Steve Wollaston

'Pointless' - Nottingham Forest rival's boss says what most fans are thinking

Every football fan in the country understands the severity of the pandemic currently sweeping the country.

The same fans are missing their football and waiting to see how the season will end.

Cancelled? Continued? Everyone has a view.

Former Derby County, and current Millwall boss Gary Rowett, is the latest to voice his opinions.

Rowett believes the Championship season should be completed to maintain the integrity of the competition.

It's a view that many Nottingham Forest fans will agree with as they wait to find out what happens to their promotion challenge.

Leagues across England are currently suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis, with the National League announcing yesterday that their campaign has been cancelled with immediate effect.

There is still plenty of uncertainty surrounding what will happen with the EFL and the Premier League but Rowett believes, if possible, that the season must be completed.

(Mike Egerton/PA Wire.)

“I’ve always felt from an integrity point of view, and this is taking away all the scientific experts, I’ve always felt that it would feel pointless starting the next season without completing this one,” he told Sky Sports.

“For me, the priority has always been to complete it but I don’t know if I’ll still have the same views potentially after our first game behind closed doors with none of our fans there, maybe at the end of that we’ll all feel like it’s not real football and it’s very difficult.

“I was surprised when the lower leagues cancelled their season and almost null and voided them, which is very strange as if the Premier League should finish, why can’t the lower leagues as well because it means just as much to the fans there and the local communities as well.

“I think the season has to finish somehow. If we can finish the season in June or July, you only have to start the new season in September, we’re not a million miles behind where we’d be in the first place.”

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