The return of the English Premier League is a drama that has almost been as tense as last-season’s title race between Liverpool and Manchester City. It’s certainly more entertaining than this season’s title race between Liverpool and Coronavirus.

With three weeks until UEFA’s deadline for receiving plans from the major European league as to whether they are able to resume or not, time is running out for the Premier League. Over the weekend, the problem of time has been added to by several other bumps in what is already a rocky road ahead.

There are so many factors that need to align for this season’s Premier League to return that it is starting to seem like the impossible job to reschedule the game we all love until next season. Even then, the season would usually start in August, with pre-season kicking off in six weeks time. That seems like dreamland with COVID-19 reportedly having infected 3.5 million people worldwide and led to the deaths of around 250,000 people.

Last week, Sergio Aguero expressed for the first time the concerns that players at all clubs must be having, saying that he and many of his teammates were ‘scared’ about the consequences of playing out the Premier League season. Kevin De Bruyne paused between hinting that a UEFA Champions League ban for Manchester City might lead to him leaving the Citizens to admit that the fear his Argentinian teammate at City spoke about was how anyone who caught the disease might affect their families.