Levrier wrote:I cannot really see the point in this. If the issue is the transmissibility of the illness then two weeks makes no difference. If it is about getting viewers back in the stadium then once again no real benefit. Unless the players are less likely to get ill less by playing less otherwise I cannot work out what the benefit is.
I'm guessing the premise may be that 12 less games at the start of the season with no fans is 12 more games later on with fans. There's an obvious financial benefit to that even if they have to be squeezed in midweek. We also don't know whether this will be the last delay. Maybe they will gradually push it back as far as they can until either fans are back or they have to play in order to get all the games in before the WC (if that even happens this year). If the WC does get cancelled then they'll have scope to push it back even further, thus increasing the amount of games that will ultimately be played in front of fans.
