As the world continues to fight the Covid-19 pandemic as best it can, many are awaiting one decision: whether or not the Premier League season will resume at a later date or not.
The big question is what happens to clubs if it doesn’t, and would Liverpool be given the title they deserve after creating a 25 point lead on Manchester City after 29 games.
However, the aim from the Premier League for now appears to be to finish the campaign, with just nine games left to play, and clubs are also planning for that as things stand, as explained by Liverpool physio José Luis Parada on Cadena COPE.
He said: “Now we’re going towards the phase of individual training on a pitch. One player per pitch with extreme measures, with a temporary shower or a bathroom on the pitch so that no one needs to go inside the building.”
Parada explained there were five pitches equipped in this way to allow players to return on the pitch, with five players allowed to come in at one time and train for 45 minutes, with the players coming from their car, training and returning to their car ‘without crossing any other player’.
As for Liverpool winning the league, the physio simply felt bad for those who have waited so long to see their team win the Premier League and being unable to celebrate the title properly.
He said: “Imagine those who have waited 30 years. It’s a bit ugly. They can’t celebrate. They’re going to watch it on a big screen and jump around their house? Come on man…”
Parada also added such a way of winning the title without mass celebrations would take a lot away from it, unable to ‘participate in that picture that would stay in the history of the club forever’.
He is also aware that any sort of actual celebration would be incredibly difficult to control, but he wasn’t worried about not being crowned champions.
As he said, ‘no one in Liverpool is thinking we will be left without winning the title’.
Now, it’s up to the government and the FA to make a decision, but either way, even if it’s a case of playing in neutral venues and empty stadiums, it’s fair to say celebrations as we know them, such as open top bus parades, will be very difficult, if not impossible, to pull off this year.
