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“Scandalous” – Leeds Favourite Slams ‘Null & Void’ Suggestions With A Very Good Point

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Former Leeds United striker Jermaine Beckford isn’t slow in coming forward with his thoughts on the club, and given the current suspension in the fixture list and doubts remaining about what will happen with the 2019-20 campaign, he recently offered additional thoughts as to why the season cannot be ended on the ‘null and void’ basis.

With nobody knowing when football will return given the effective lockdown we are all living in at the moment, various suggestions are being offered about how we can end the year and one favoured option for many is the ‘null and void’ theory – not least given the ructions it would cause to Leeds and Liverpool (given current table positions) which seems to entertain some.

Speaking to the Yorkshire Evening Post this week, Beckford explained that the only solution that made sense to him was to end the season with current positions deciding future fates.

“I think there’s only really two viable options. The first one, if the league is cancelled because we can’t see when we are going to get over this whole coronavirus issue I think the season should either be cancelled and the standings as they are are the ones that should be set for next season. It means Liverpool winning the Premier League and all the spots stay as they are with the Champions League and Europa League in the Premier League. Teams that are in those relegation places now should be relegated. I know it’s not a nice situation but we are in unprecedented times.”

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Beckford admits it’s not a perfect solution and the EFL divisions are more complicated because of the Play-Offs, but even there you can flip a coin.

“I think that in the Championship, it should be the standings that they are with promotion. It’s difficult with the play-offs but I am going to go out on a limb here and say do a lucky dip with the four teams that are in there. Each team has a number and you have a lucky dip to determine who progresses into the final with another lucky dip for who wins the final.”

Talking more specifically about the ‘null and void’ option, he rightly offers additional complications such an outcome would bring.

“That would be scandalous. I genuinely and honestly don’t think that should be a viable option, I really don’t. If you think about it, if the whole season gets null and voided, all the TV revenue that has come in, all the transfers that have come in January, they shouldn’t be allowed to stand. All of that TV revenue money, close to a billion pounds possibly across all leagues – who is going to take the hit for that? I am sure someone is not going to want to just say alright we will just write off a billion plus pounds.”

It’s a fair point, if the season is basically wiped from history then everything relating to the season has to be voided, doesn’t it.

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