Bamber Bridge boss Jamie Milligan calls for division to be split

Bamber Bridge boss Jamie Milligan believes the current non-league football season will be lucky to reach a conclusion due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Brig boss Jamie MilliganBrig boss Jamie Milligan
Brig boss Jamie Milligan

The NPL Premier Division – along with every division at the same level and below – has been placed in cold storage for a month due to the second national lockdown.

The campaign was brought to a halt at the beginning of November and will not reconvene until December 5 at the earliest.

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With a fixture backlog to catch up on, all clubs will face a hectic schedule and Milligan believes it will be highly dangerous for players if they were expected to return straight back into competitive action after being sidelined for a month.

This is the second time this season already that Brig have had an interruption to their season.

After winning their opening game of the campaign, the whole club had to shut down its football operations after a member of its squad was tested positive for Covid-19.

Milligan believes there is scope for splitting up the division in order to help the campaign reach a conclusion

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“If it carries on the way it’s going, I don’t think the season will finish,” he said.

“I think it could end up where we have a situation where it gets null and void again and the season is scrapped completely.

“They have got to change something because we are going to be playing Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday pretty much throughout.

“If you think about it, we have lost seven or eight games through this lockdown, where are we going to fit these games in? It’s just going to be impossible.”