Ex-Peterborough United manager says football should ‘hibernate’ for the summer

Evans, who now manages Posh’s League One rivals Gillingham, made his comments to Kent Online.

He believes next season could be pushed back to January 2021 and

Evans said “Let’s get to a period of time when we can safely finish the season and nobody can query anyone’s success or failure.

“Let’s go into hibernation, let’s go away for three or four months. We know we would be coming back with different types of player, but we can come back with the integrity to finish the season like we set out to do last August.

“We could go back on say October 1, by mid-November we have got our season sorted, promotions and relegation and then bang, you could be going again in January for a new season, then a summer break at the end of that, but we need to do something.”

Evans is currently planning for a return to training on May 15, but few expect the UK Government to give the green light to that plan.