Chris Kamara: ‘It would be heartbreaking’ for West Brom if season is voided
Chris Kamara has been a firm believer that West Brom and Leeds United will win automatic promotion to the Premier League this season.
As it stands, both clubs have nine matches to play as Leeds sit top of the Championship, one point clear of second-placed West Brom, who are six points ahead of Fulham in third.
Albion and the Whites have been in the top-two almost all season and many would expect them to continue their impressive campaigns once the EFL is able to resume fixtures.
However there is still a lingering threat of the season being declared null and void, as it has done in the lower reaches of English football and at the elite level of Dutch football last week.
Dutch second-tier side Cambuur were on course for promotion to the Eredivisie but have been denied of that happening due to the KNVB scrapping the entire 2019/20 campaign as though it never happened.
Sky Sports commentator Kamara is worried that something similar could happen to West Brom and his former club Leeds.
“That would be a mega shame,” Kamara told FootballFanCast. “From September, people were saying West Brom and Leeds will go up automatically, and that didn’t change, even when they had sticky periods.
“It would be heartbreaking for them if the season was declared null and void. But we haven’t reached that point yet so who knows.”
We hope it doesn’t get to the point where that happens but if it does then the EFL, FA and Premier League can expect legal action from teams like West Brom, Leeds and other promotion-chasing clubs in the Championship.
It would be one of the biggest injustices in Albion’s history and hopefully the threat of potential lawsuits is what stops the EFL from taking that course of action.
In other West Brom news, Ally Robertson is thrilled by the EFL’s most recent update.