Neil Warnock blasts ‘unnecessary’ decisions with so much at stake for Leeds
Neil Warnock has blasted the FA’s decision to cut short seasons below the National League North and South, claiming that each club at that level has as much at stake as teams like Leeds United.
With the Championship season currently suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, a lot of Leeds fans are worried that their club’s bid for promotion will be written off as though it never happened.
Leeds are top of the second-tier, seven points clear of third with nine matches to play in their push to return to the Premier League after 16 years outside of it.
Warnock has called on football’s governing bodies to find a way to complete the current 2019/20 season because there is so much at stake for teams like Leeds and second-placed West Brom.
“Why make a decision like that now? Whenever this pandemic is over and people feel that it is right that we can go and watch football again, then let’s finish the season then,” Warnock told the Daily Mail. “That applies to the Premier League, too. It is unnecessary to make decisions now. I don’t think the authorities realise how much fans in general invest in their clubs.
“There is so much at stake for clubs throughout the leagues. That applies to Truro City and it applies to Leeds and West Brom and Plymouth and Exeter and Swindon and Rotherham and Oxford United and Portsmouth. Those are just the clubs at the top. Surely, you just play it to a finish, whenever that may be, even if it’s the end of the year.’”
Warnock mentioned Truro City because they are a team that are based 50 miles from where he lives in Cornwall and were top of their league before the FA cancelled the Southern League Premier South.
Truro were only two points clear of the team in second but the point remains that they were on course for promotion.
South Shields were arguably the hardest done by with the FA declaring their season null and void despite them being just one point away from winning promotion to the Evo-Stik Premier Division.
Imagine if that happens to Leeds? There would be uproar and major legal battles between the other impacted clubs and football’s authorities.
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