IT’S not often that I agree with Karren Brady, Sun columnist, Tory Peer and West Ham’s vice-chair, but when she argued the best option for football was to null and void the 2019-20 football season I thought she was at least being honest about the urgency and scale of what football is facing.

I prefer the term “incomplete,” the season ends now, forget about any resumption, the league places frozen in time, no champions, no Champions League places, no relegations, no promotions. 

Of course some fans accused her of naked self-interest. West Ham currently hover above the drop zone only on goal difference. But the point is such a cessation, forever, of this one season will produce good results for some bad results for others, Liverpool and Leeds especially, that’s the point of being “all in it together.”