The world's first league is facing paralysis, and this scene has been fully staged on the evening of the 18th. Although on Friday, the last two games of the 17th round of the Premier League were barely played at home to Chelsea and Liverpool, six of the first seven games of the 18th round of the league, starting this Saturday, were postponed and the planned matches could be suspended at any time.
At present, Premier League officials are considering stopping all Premier League leagues for at least the next 3 weeks to cope with the current complex situation. As a result, the Premier League schedule for the season, which was scheduled to end in late May next year, will also be postponed as a whole. The decision was made as early as 12 December when Brighton played Against Tottenham Hotspur, and it was a foregone conclusion that more than half of the matches in this round would not be able to proceed properly. After 17 rounds of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur have gone as many as three games without playing on time.
The scary thing is that the situation is getting worse and could bring the Premier League to a complete halt at any time. The Official Premier League has assessed that it wants to suspend all Premier League matches until January 7 next year, but in fact, not only the Premier League, but also the Championship, League A and League Two leagues at all levels have begun to suspend a large area, and on the 18th alone, a total of 22 games from the Premier League to the Four Levels of League B have been postponed. In the case that the specific extension time has not yet been determined, there will be many rounds of competition in the future that will not be able to be played. The incomplete game has made the fate of each team this season even more difficult to figure out.
In recent league rounds, the Premier League has not only replaced the leader, but also a large number of teams are expected to compete for the 4th place in the league, that is, the competition for Champions League tickets has reached an unprecedented level. At present, Arsenal, which has not been affected by the suspension, has temporarily regained the fourth place, but there are many competitors behind them who have postponed the game, which has made the final ranking of this season more and more variable. The Premier League during the Christmas holidays has been booming in the past, like our Spring Festival, but now this hot season is more likely to become deserted, and a series of economic problems behind it will also put more clubs under pressure to survive.
Although there will still be arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool and other teams to play normally in this round, no one can say for sure whether the Premier League will be completely shut down after this week. Judging from the current overall situation, the Premier League may become the first of the five major leagues to be completely suspended at any time. European football is once again in a complex period of chaos, and the chaos of the first league will inevitably affect all other leagues, including the Champions League. This winter will be another dangerous time for European football to face the test of life and death.