The EFL Chairman Rick Parry said yesterday that the season has to be over by 31st July but club doctors are in doubt that this could happen.
Dr Ahmad who is head of medical at Queens Park Rangers told BBC Sport that league club doctors have different opinions about how and when the season should end.
Dr Ahmad says that the Premier League are taking the lead in putting together a ‘medical protocol’ for when and how teams will return to training and expects the EFL club doctors to use it as a template. But he also expects it to take some time – probably more like months than weeks – and thinks that even then some of the lower league sides could find the rules put in place difficult to adhere too saying ‘it’s the time the players come in, how they can stay away from each other, where do they get changed, getting changed at home, how they actually leave the training ground’ thinking that there are clubs that haven’t got large enough facilities to do all this.
It will be awkward for fans who see the Premier League returning when our own teams are still not able to get together. But, the big clubs have big spaces and it will be easier for those team’s players to apply social distancing. Although I still don’t see how a game of football can take place while still social distancing but …..
Once again it looks like the smaller clubs are going to be the ones suffering.
Isn’t it about time something was done about this? Isn’t there a way the ‘big’ clubs could help the ‘little’ clubs? In a world that needs people to stick together there can’t be a better time to send the ‘be kind’ message out – or maybe we need to beg by saying ‘please help us’.
Stay Safe.
Up The Millers.
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