Alan Shearer speaks on cancellation of EPL

Newcastle legend, Alan Shearer has said that if the football season in England is cancelled over coronavirus pandemic, club's like Liverpool and Leeds will feel hard done by.

The English Premier League chiefs are awaiting a speech by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his plans to reopen activities in the country after a period of lockdown.

If the league resumes, games would have to be played on neutral grounds.

"In an ideal world every club would play their remaining games at the stadiums they are scheduled to do so," Shearer wrote in The Sun.

"But if that’s not possible, there will have to be some give or take from clubs in terms of playing at neutral venues.

"Players being quarantined away in order to complete the season is one thing that is being looked at.

"It is hardly ideal but these are unprecedented times that will need drastic solutions if the season is to be finished.

"If it isn't completed, which still looks very possible, then I can't see how you can give clubs what they may or may not have won.

"We all agree Liverpool are going to win the league but would they really want to be handed the title?

"There are going to be clubs left feeling hard done by.

"Whether that's Liverpool not winning the league, Leeds not getting promoted or a team being relegated having had to play their remaining games at a neutral venue, there will be losers to this."