Angus Kinnear: FA decision met with anger, disappointment and inevitable legal challenge

Leeds United chief executive Angus Kinnear has warned that there will be mayhem if the Premier League and EFL seasons are declared null and void.

The Guardian reported earlier this week that over 60 non-league clubs have written to the FA to condemn them for scrapping all seasons below the National League North and South.

There are worries that the FA’s decision on non-league football will, eventually, creep it’s way up the football pyramid, which would cause Leeds’ promotion charge to come to the least fair of endings.

Elland Road chief Kinnear has reiterated Leeds’ desire to get the season finished, warning that there will be a major uproar if the Championship season was to be cancelled.

“The FA’s decision to void all leagues below the National South and North, including the season of our table-topping Leeds United Ladies team, was met with a mixture of anger, disappointment and inevitable legal challenge which barely hints at the bedlam that will unfold if this approach was adopted higher up the pyramid,” Kinnear wrote on the Yorkshire Evening Post website.

“However, the UEFA president, Alexander Cerefin, has reiterated the importance of finishing leagues across Europe and laid out options of games in June and July or a delayed start to next season with the season completing in August.

“Whilst the shared priority of the Leeds United family now should be keeping each other safe, staying at home, protecting the NHS and saving lives, we should also look forward to the resumption of football and finding out both the destination of this season’s journey and whether Luke Ayling runs out of goal celebrations before he runs out of goals.”

The EFL are yet to make a decision on what to do with the currently-suspended season and that is understandable because it’s such a tough decision to make.

But at the end of the day, there is a far bigger picture for people to worry about.

Football cannot resume until normal life can resume safely.

Until it is safe for everyone, there is no way that a proper decision on the football can be made.