Government officials are warning that coronavirus restrictions could continue for another six months and yet we're continually hearing plans to conclude the football season.
Initial hopes that the domestic campaign in England, and perhaps the European competitions as well, could be completed by the summer now look increasingly optimistic.
With social distancing restrictions making any sport impossible, football's authorities face a reckoning over whether to simply cancel the season right away or play to a finish when the situation becomes safer.
But, as Sportsmail revealed on Tuesday, the Premier League are working on an ambitious plan to restart the season behind closed doors on the first weekend of May and finish it on July 12.