Jurgen Klopp said last week “football always seems the most important of the least important things”.
He is right. Suspending football or even cancelling this season is one of the least important ramifications of this terrible coronavirus.
But one day, football in this country will resume and fans are speculating about how the game will progress.
Will the season continue? Or will it be declared “null and void” as West Ham United’s vice-chairwoman, Karren Brady, suggested it should be?
Under every scenario there will be winners and losers.
My desire is to see the season completed one way or another, but I realise it is more likely that this season will be scrapped.
If the season were declared null and void, the biggest winners would obviously be the relegation-threatened teams, such as West Ham, which is probably why many got so cross at Ms Brady’s suggestion, because it seemed so self-serving.
Other teams that would benefit would be those who qualified for the Champions League last year, but are by no means certain to qualify for it this year, such as Tottenham .
The biggest losers would be the teams fighting for Champions League spots or European qualification, and those striving for promotion in every league. Particularly you would feel for the likes of Leicester City, West Brom, Leeds United and Coventry City.
As a Liverpool fan, I wouldn’t dispute that whoever wins the Premier League title is probably the least important issue that would come from declaring this season null and void.
However, based on the likelihood of what may happen with the nine or 10 games left to play before the end of the season, Klopp would be by far the most hard done by manager if this season was scrapped.
The likelihood of Liverpool officially winning the league is far more likely than any other team qualifying for the Champions League, or any team being promoted or making their play-offs.
Given this, and sounding almost as self-serving as Brady, I would love to see all other 19 Premier League teams agree to surrender their challenge and award the Reds the title.
This would give them the legitimacy they deserve as champions, which would go some way towards offsetting just how anti-climactic a win in this manner would be after 30 years of waiting.
While the fight is still technically going and the final knockout blow hasn’t quite been landed, a deserving winner could still be crowned if all other teams were prepared to throw in the towel unanimously.
No title for Liverpool would be a bitter pill to swallow.
