Jamie Carragher warns Leeds about bringing accusation on themselves
Jamie Carragher has warned clubs like Leeds United against stating their public desire to finish the currently-suspended season.
Leeds will be one of the biggest losers if the season was to be scrapped in the same way it has been in the Eredivisie with the Whites currently sat top of the Championship and on course for automatic promotion.
It has been almost 16 years since United last played in the Premier League but that wait will have to go on even longer if the 2019/20 campaign is declared null and void.
Liverpool legend Carragher wants to see his former club win the Premier League title, Leicester to qualify for the Champions League and for Leeds to win promotion.
However he says that those clubs cannot come out and say that as it will bring about accusations on where their priorities lie.
“In the current circumstances, it is impossible for clubs with a chance of a trophy, Champions League qualification or promotion to publicly express an eagerness to continue because of the backlash that will follow; the accusation that they care more about their ambitions than the health of the nation,” Carragher wrote on the Telegraph website.
“As a former Liverpool player, I acknowledge that restarting the season helps Liverpool towards the title.
“But based on the 29 games played, who can reasonably say Jurgen Klopp’s side do not deserve it?
“Based on the fixtures played, I also believe Leicester City deserve Champions League football and Leeds United to be promoted to the Premier League.”
Carragher’s point is a fair one because some people – especially those biased against the likes of Leeds and Liverpool – will make that accusation.
However to say that the clubs, the staff, the players, the board members don’t care about beating coronavirus is absolutely wrong.
Everyone wants this illness gone. Everyone wants life to return to how it was.
And part of life returning to normal is having football back.
You can want more than one thing. To want football back doesn’t mean you don’t care about beating the virus.
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