Coronavirus: Liverpool mayor dismisses Premier League resumption as ´non-starter´

Liverpool’s mayor has described plans to resume the Premier League season as a “non-starter”.

The campaign was brought to a halt last month when Liverpool led the way by 25 points, needing just two more wins to secure a first top-flight title in 30 years.

It has been suggested fixtures could be played behind closed doors, potentially at a selection of neutral venues, but mayor Joe Anderson fears a “farcical” situation in his own city.

“Even if it was behind closed doors, there’d be many thousands of people who would turn up outside Anfield,” he told BBC Sport.

“There’s not many people who would respect what we were saying and stay away from the ground, a lot of people would come to celebrate so I think it’s a non-starter.

“Even [by using neutral venues], I guess that a lot of people would turn up outside Anfield to celebrate and I understand the police’s concerns around that, so there’s a real difficulty here for us.