David Woods

Fri 25 September 2020 18:30, UK

Leeds United and the rest of the Premier League are voting on a proposed rule change next week. 

With Coronavirus numbers on the rise again, there’s a vote to decide what will happen if the season is ended early.

Times journalist Martyn Ziegler has said that “a proposal for points-per-game to decide the outcome of the season if it is curtailed after a minimum of 75 per cent of matches have been played.”

The rule change needs 14 of the 20 clubs to agree for it to be ratified.

Ziegler also said that if the season was ended before 75% of games had been played, it would be declared null & void, with no relegation.

The rule change could see Leeds relegated off the pitch if they were in the bottom three when the season was ended.

The rule change is needed after threats of legal action from relegation-threatened clubs last season if the Premier League was ended early and decided on points-per-game.

In the end, the season was completed on the pitch and three clubs relegated as normal.

In theory, it means Leeds could be relegated off the pitch – but only if 75% of the games have been played.

We agree with the rule change and, at this stage of the season, it’s tough to see which clubs would object to it.

It’s also hard to see the situation get so bad that games couldn’t be completed, but the UK is expecting a second wave of Coronavirus over the winter.

The UK has also just recorded its largest daily tally of new cases.

In the football world, West Ham were rocked when David Moyes, Josh Cullen and Issa Diop tested positive ahead of their EFL Cup tie.

And the return of fans to football stadiums, expected in October, has been postponed indefinitely.

It’s a miserable state of affairs but we’re fully behind the Premier League proposal and think that certainty now is much better than deciding things on the fly if the worst happens.

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