While the country is heading towards a complete lockdown and the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is said to be coming, reports in the media on Sunday claimed that one plan on the table involved a return to Premier League football as early as June 1.
The plan, as reported in the Telegraph, suggested a six-week blitz of football, all behind closed doors, to get the entirity of the 2019/20 season completed by July 11 with the aim starting the new season on time on August 8.
Football is currently suspended until April 30 at the earliest, but all the indication are that the worst is yet to come in terms of COVID-19 spreading across the country, and the reported plan to start in June has been met with some scepticism.
The Premier League and EFL have both agreed to delay the current season indefinitely, and the wide consensus is that the 2019/20 season must be completed before the new season can get underway - regardless of how long that takes.
Football in denial
These proposed plans of returning in June have seemingly no chance of coming to fruition, according to several journalists appearing on Sky Sports' Sunday Supplement.
"Our leagues, and football in general, is still in a little bit of denial about what is going on," Oliver Holt told the Sunday Supplement.
"There is an element of people trying to keep up their morale here but, in reality, these ideas of playing behind closed doors in a few weeks' time are not going to happen. The timeframes we are looking at are several months until there is a chance of football coming back.
