What Sheffield Wednesday legend Chris Waddle believes should happen to the rest of the football season

And the former England international, known to many as the best player ever to pull on a Wednesday shirt, believes the season should be cancelled.

It comes as leagues across Europe make tough decisions on the conclusion of their programmes as the coronavirus continues in its grip over the football schedule.

“Personally, I think they should pull the plug on all the leagues and start again in August,” Waddle told the BBC.

“The Dutch have said they are finishing their league and the French have said they are finishing their league.

“This is where the trouble starts now. Just an example, Paris, are still the best team in France, but they haven’t been as good this year as in previous years.

“But say they lost two in a row, which they could do. Marseille then go on a run and catch them. Same with bottom of the league. We could make that up with the 10 or nine games left.”

The 1993 FA Cup runner-up accepts that no way of finishing the season will be completely fair on all teams. Wednesday, whose post-Christmas form saw them nosedive into 15th place in the Championship, would avoid a nervy final nine games of the campaign.

Waddle went on to say: “I just think it is an unbelievable season and no one saw this coming and me personally I think all the leagues should do like Holland and say 'we are stopping it'.

“You can’t expect players to play in June and then what are we going to do to put the season back a month or so?

“What if it is not available in June? What if this is still around? People don’t want to play behind closed doors.

“It has become farcical and I respect what Holland and the French have done. I think that is the way forward.

“Unfortunately you have got to put it down to circumstances and say this is a one-off, hopefully, and it never happened."