Football news: Jurgen Klopp: Null and void the Premier League? That would be unfair

The Premier League is stepping up its plans to return, with small group training allowed from Tuesday.

However, following the postponement in March due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, there were some calls, albeit largely from social media, to call the season ‘null and void’ with no champion and no relegation, a notion Klopp could not understand.

"There was talk that people wanted to declare the season null and void. So you thought: 'Huh? We have played 76 percent of the season and you just want to delete the thing?'” Klopp said at a talk at the DFB Academy, per Goal.

"That would have been something that I personally would find unfair, to just say that it didn't happen.”

Liverpool are 25 points clear at the top of the table with nine games remaining to Manchester City’s eight, meaning they are on the brink of a first league title since 1990.

Klopp added: "We are first in the home table, we are first in the away table. It is a season in which we should become champions.

"I think there are worse things in life than not becoming champions. A lot of people around us have big problems. People die, it always happens, but at the moment because of a virus that we all didn't know and for which nobody could be prepared.

"We cannot prepare for everything, but also have to react often. That’s the biggest part of my life, reacting to things that I didn’t expect."