PL can’t be allowed to make mega Cheltenham mistake

Cheltenham crowd just ahead of the emergency measures

The Cheltenham Festival is an abiding memory and example of why nobody in sport – or the ‘determined to finish the season’ Premier League – can pressure for a rush to a return for action.

Piers Morgan is not a man I can stand but it’s impossible to argue with his view that racing’s biggest National Hunt event of the Year should have been cancelled before attracting around a quarter of a million over its duration.

I love horse racing and use a 22Bet Bonus from time to time but I was truly shocked when the decision was made – and unlike Morgan – I won’t make this political.

But I have no doubts that the fearful bug which has sent us all into lockdown had a ‘field day’ during the four days and that finding the winner of the Gold Cup was a nonsense in such circumstances.

There can be no further -and I’m sure there won’t be – massive mistakes in allowing  sport to take place before crowds until we have the very best advice that its safe to do so.

The Premier League is still holding on desperately to the determination that the current season will finish but this isn’t rocket science! No way – one death as a result should ensure that doesn’t happen.

We are all capable of making an assessment on the position by checking the daily figures and once, as they have done elsewhere, they start declining there is obvious reason for hope.

But football and those responsible for allowing it will not – or deserve to be – forgiven if a second mega Cheltenham disaster is allowed.