Vital rules which must be obeyed or KILL the season

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I believe that unless ALL the following criteria are met, then the 2019/20 must be null/voided:

1) all games must take place in the same time frame they were originally due to. Players must be given the time to recuperate between games. To do otherwise shows the integrity of the competition to be severely tarnished.

2) every Premier League team must have EXACTLY the same first team squad as it did when football stopped. If just one player from any team isn’t in the squad then it renders the competition as altered. Ie: if, for example, Willan/Vertongan etc decide not to play beyond their contract, then whoever Chelsea/Spurs etc play, it will be to the oppositions advantage thereby skewering the integrity of the games.

Chelsea’s Willian and others should still be with their squads.

3) All games MUST be with supporters in attendance. For three quarters of the season supporters have been in attendance. Those supporters had the opportunity to have a bearing on their team’s performance and possibly the result. To play behind closed doors for the remainder is a disadvantage to all teams but more to some and not others. Again this wrecks the integrity of the competition.

We have come to the business end of the season. To change any of the above in any way would in effect render the season as totally flawed. You cannot ask players to play three  games a week for three  weeks.. Some players can but some cannot.

Those who cannot could have played in all the games if the timescale was as originally set by the Premier League. Imagine an important player in a team going for glory or fighting relegation who is perhaps older and cannot play three games a week. That has a bearing on the results and thereby the league table.

And clubs/Uefa/FIFA cannot by law stop players from leaving their current club on 30th June so that alters the mix too.

In short, I think that if the season cannot be finished as it was set out originally with all the same players and the fans in attendance, then the integrity of the competition is gone.

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