Football's return could move another step closer today as the British Government decides on whether to ease the lockdown.

'Project Restart', as it is known, is designed to get football ready to resume. However, many are questioning whether it’s possible firstly in a logistical manner and secondly, in a moral one.

The first major football league back will be Germany’s Bundesliga, which is due to resume without fans on May 16.

At least, that was the case until second division side Dynamo Dresden placed its entire team in a two-week quarantine yesterday after two players tested positive for coronavirus.

The English Premier League, who are so desperate to complete the season and avoid a potential £762m rebate on their broadcast income, is also working on a plan that would see top-flight football resume in England from June 12.

Other European professional football leagues including Spain’s La Liga and Italy’s Serie A are now also working on plans to return this summer although other governments – such as in French and Holland – have decided that the risk is too great and that their seasons should immediately be ended.

Michel D’Hooghe, the chair of FIFA’s medical committee, last week said that football should instead focus on preparing the start of next season and find a ‘sporting solution’ to end the 2019-20 season. He said that it was a “fight between health and economic values”.

Quite frankly, it’s a precarious situation for all. It’s going to be a lot of risk management and trying to rush to get to a finished season with the fewest casualties.

Players might be expected to play three times in a week to squash all the games in. Even disregarding coronavirus, that’s going to lead to a plethora of torn hamstrings, pulled groins and twanged knees. That then bleeds into next season with a very short turnaround expected to get the next season running by the end of August at the latest.

It’s obvious that clubs want to press forward and recuperate some of the financial losses they’ve taken, whilst fans are terribly bored and want the passion and excitement of sport back in their lives.

But is it really worth the risk, when just one case of coronavirus within a team could see the house of cards come tumbling down again? Is it fair that medical staff should be on hand at football matches and a precious hospital bed be taken up if, heaven forbid, a player breaks a leg?

As a writer for a British newspaper put it so succinctly this week: “You know that the situation is getting desperate and, frankly, ridiculous when the authorities are talking of a ‘football biosphere.’”

It’s hard not to agree. A sport that thrives on fans huddled together like cattle swilling cold beverages, guzzling pies watching players who are sliding on turf covered in spit and sweat. A biosphere? No chance.

That’s not the only daftness that’s been mooted recently. Consider the following as ideas from senior figures which have been tabled, to varying degrees of credibility.

Change the rules of the game. Make the halves shorter, just because some people seem to think that might stop the transmission of the virus. Introduce more substitutions throughout the game.

What’s next? Make the footballers wear masks? Stop tackling and marking at corners? Yellow cards for heavy breathing? Wash the ball down with an antibacterial wipe every time somebody heads it or picks it up for a throw in?

There are some money men who would probably agree to these caveats. By goodness, just get the games played, they might say. Play it abroad, perhaps on Antarctica, because we have to play the game. Somebody once said football is more important than life itself so we have to respect that, and because nothing is more important than money.

Of course, such talk is a nonsense. I would say I’m genuinely concerned that there are some valuing football and money over life, but I’m not ‘concerned’. It’s simply fact.

The UK has been nowhere near Germany's standard in its response to dealing with this virus, and should not be thinking they're in any position to follow them just because they're in a position to play football again. Or so they think.

Britain hasn’t got the virus under any sort of control; there’s not enough testing, people are still dying and people aren’t even allowed out of their homes freely yet (well, aside from the ones who think having a jolly on their local park and a picnic on the beach is acceptable).

Even as I write this article, it has emerged that a Brighton player has tested positive for coronavirus. Yet all the talk is getting football back and not protecting these players?

But it'll be back. Because of the money. We'll get what we all want because of the money. Mark my words.