Alex Miller's Sheffield Wednesday column: The EFL are correct to keep trying to forge a way forward this season

Player contracts? Minefield. Void the season? Minefield. FFP? As ever, it’s a minefield. There are countless other sticking points and legal questions that nobody could have planned for.

As the FA and the EFL present their latest roadmap for a potential way forward to clubs, resistance to the forethought rippled its way through social media.

A letter delivered to Championship clubs including Sheffield Wednesday was exclusively revealed by JPI Media titles on Thursday and spelt out a plan to conclude the 2019/20 season within 56 days of when it is agreed to be safe to do so.

That eight-week period would be designed to include play-off semi-finals and finals and matches, they suggested, would be played behind closed doors. The plans got a bit of a kicking online.

The fact that the unprecedented position we find ourselves in will never produce an alternative to please everyone.

In a football sense at least, a voided season may not mean much to midtable Sheffield Wednesday, but a glance at the losses posted by table-topping Leeds United this week showcasing the financial commitments clubs have made to achieving promotion as soon as possible.

It’s difficult to imagine the weight of lawsuit thrown the authorities’ way if that was to be pulled from beneath them. The extreme chances are that the forces of broadcast money and club litigation will see this season finished in some form.

Whether the latest plans are thrown to the wayside with those before as this killer illness continues to sweep its way through our society we don’t know and of course there are far, far more important things at play.

And when it comes to criticising the EFL or the FA for their administration of the game over the years there has been plenty of subject matter.

But livelihoods, communities and entire industries depend on football being played and even if played behind closed doors, it would provide escapism the nation so badly needs. An attempt to forge a safe way forward is vital.