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All season long the only thing standing between Leeds United and the Premier League has been Leeds United, until the C-word came along.

This isn’t, unfortunately, a column about Cardiff City and the mental pain they inflicted on everyone associated with the Whites back in December, and the opportunity Leeds will have, this Sunday, to complete the story arc and lay to rest the ghosts of December 14.

Coronavirus is already dominating the football news cycle and it appears almost inevitable that it will play merry hell with the football calendar.

Fixtures have fallen victim to it at home and abroad and the revelation that a club owner contracted it – and inadvertently took it to Nottingham Forest’s game against Millwall – brought it all very close to home. Coronavirus has visited the Championship.

Leeds United, Coronavirus, reasonable steps, grim possibilities and futility - Graham Smyth