Gary Taylor-Fletcher column: Blackpool’s anniversary celebrations look to be on hold given the coronavirus pandemic

I was meant to be organising something, but with all that’s happened within the club with me and Brett Ormerod, we’re now out of the loop a little bit.

I think the club is trying to organise something themselves but, as players, we’ll be trying to organise something if and when we can.

It’s massively important we do something to mark the occasion and as players we’ll make sure there is something for the supporters.

We’ll just have to move forward and see what we can do when the timing is right.

It’s totally unprecedented times and something that’s never happened in any of our lifetimes before.

In 40 or 50 years’ time we’ll be looking back and comparing it to events like the plague and things like that, it’s that serious.

At this time football takes a back seat. Right now people’s health is far more important than football.

At the end of the day, you’ve just got to look after each other, stay safe and I’m sure football will carry on as normal once it’s all over.

The footballing authorities have now said there’s going to be no matches until April 30 at the earliest, although you’d imagine that will get pushed back as well.

You’d also think clubs might tell their players to stay at home for a couple of weeks and do nothing, just take care of themselves and stay healthy.

The way the players look after themselves nowadays, they shouldn’t lose too much fitness.

They will have programmes to do at home and that sort of stuff, while any work they need to do as a team can be continued when they get back to the training ground.

As for the domestic football season and what should happen, there’s no way they can’t finish the campaign – there’s too much at stake for the teams at the top and the bottom.

When you look at promotions and relegations, this season is more important to finish than thinking about starting the next season.

One thing I’m surprised they haven’t looked at yet is putting the Euros at the same time as the African Cup of Nations in January.

They could play a bit of the season and then extend the next season a little bit and catch up at a later date.

You don’t know what the Premier League and the EFL are thinking but whatever they decide will affect a number of teams, not just Liverpool whom I obviously support!

There’s teams at the bottom, teams at the top of the Championship, League One, League Two and so on who will all be targeting good ends to their respective seasons.

There’s also those clubs that will be looking to qualify for the Champions League, sides like Sheffield United who are up there flying.

If the season is declared null and void, are they going to have another season as good as this one?

You just don’t know, so there’s massive implications on so many teams.

Financially, if Sheffield United were to qualify for the Champions League or the Europa League, it would boost them even more and help them kick on like it did for Leicester City.

At least for Blackpool there wasn’t a great deal on the line for them in their final nine games of the League One season.

They weren’t going to get promoted or relegated, so it was always going to be a case of seeing the season out and letting Neil Critchley assess the players at his disposal, bedding players into the squad and implementing his tactics.

Whether the season is going to finish in June, July, August or whenever, no matter what you’ve just got to carry on and see the season out.

This is all going to have a massive effect on clubs financially, we’ve already seen non-league clubs letting staff go.

It will have an impact on the employees, any part-time staff, everything really, so it’s good to see the EFL have announced they’ve taken measures to try and help clubs.

However, I do believe there needs to be more support from the Premier League and higher up.