I wonder if the public acceptance would have been different if they had gone earlier. Would the Scousers have quietly accepted their match with Athletico being cancelled?
You can't quarantine Ireland because they have a land border that thousands of people cross everyday to go to work/shopping or in some cases one part of their farm to another.
According to this morning's Telegraph BT Sport and Sky are currently demanding a £350M rebate from the PL even if there is a restart with behind-closed-doors matches
Liabilities to sponsors, advertisers, broadcasters, players and agents will all have to be met. If there is no resumption they will sue for breach of contract and will win.
I think the whole thing is f##ked. There is no consensus over moving forward. It is all going to dissolve in a blizzard of lawsuits and a lot of clubs are going to go out of business. Some PL clubs included.