Nobody is choosing to cancel or delay this, as the case may be, for sporting reasons.
If the situation allows, the season would continue as normal. The Premier League and EFL have seen sense and decided this isn't the case, delaying everything for 3 weeks. If it isn't safe by that date, then it will be delayed until such a time as it can continue. If, come June / July the season still can't re-start safely because of the virus, then there's an exceptional chance it will be cancelled and voided.
It's insensitive and disingenuous to push for an immediate cancellation just because it suits your agenda or the agenda of other clubs, rather than for the safety and health concerns that is the ultimate reason for this.
The league have been much too slow to react at each stage, and that has caused this disaster. The decision to delay, in the hope that the 50+ people who are quarantined at Arsenal are going to be right s reign in 3 weeks is absolutely ridiculous. It's panic and they are trying to drip feed the bad news to sponsors and fans.
Arteta is not going to have filly recovered in 3 weeks. Neither is Hudson- Odoi. There is no ethical basis to continue if they are not fully fit.
As for the other stuff, your time scales are out mate. If we get to July, this will be in a discussion about what we can do to salvage next season. By July it would be 4 months of not playing, so we would need to have a prolonged pre-season and try to get it started by late September. It would be touch and go.
In essence they've got until mid April I would say to make a decision. Other competitions are not going to cancel if the PL doesn't (the idea UEFA cancel everything to help their rivals is ludicrous). The negotiations would be protruded and take several days, if not weeks. You would not be able to start the following game week, even if they wanted too, as the players would need a bit of time to re-acclimitise to playing. So Mid April would (best case) lead to a start in May, which should allow for a finish in late June (providing the players were happy to do that, I don't know if the contracts allow them some element of rest time in June).
Anything much later than these time scales, and you are running into July, and players are out of contract, which will invalidate the season.
Essentially we need a sharp reversal in England of cases, and cases to massively decline between now and the middle of April. While I don't think anything should be considered impossible, it is highly unlikely we get that at present with the way the government are going about things.
