The former Portsmouth defender who believes this season has to be declared null and void

The ex-Pompey defender reckons it’s the only fair way – and a better solution than using a points-per-game (PPG) method amid the coronavirus crisis.

It’s looking likely that League One and League Two will end next week, with the logistical issues and a shift in player mood key reasons.

It’s been mooted that the favoured way of deciding league positions will be a weighted PPG system - which would see Coventry, Rotherham and Oxford go up.

What’s more, the method would mean Pompey finish seventh, despite only sitting two points outside the promotion spots with nine games remaining.

Moore’s Doncaster also had an outside chance of finishing in the play-offs.

But he feels the season should be expunged.

Speaking to the Doncaster Free Press, Moore said: ‘I think the only way you can get out of it now is just saying “it is what it is, it’s one of those things”. Even looking at Liverpool in their current situation (25 points clear at the top of the Premier League), I think you can only null and void it.

‘Even though people might kick off, how could people turn around if the government said for the safety of all we think it should shut down and we’ll look at a later date about how and when the new season can start.

‘You’re opening up a whole can of worms if you’re promoting and relegating teams.

‘If you send the top two up from the Championship and bring the bottom two down from the Premier League for example. The team third bottom are given a stay of execution because there’s going to be no play-offs - but Aston Villa could then turn around and say they’ve got a game in hand.

‘If you’re going down the points per game route, it’s a real can of worms.’

Moore pinpointed that anything can happen in the business end of the campaign – and that’s why PPG shouldn't be used.

He added: ‘This is the time of the season where, as a player, you can get a mental block and you can get funny results,” he said.

‘It’s the time of the season where you find yourself going ‘where have they come from? They’ve put an incredible run together.’ A lot of it is mental.

‘So how can you reward teams because of form?

‘Leeds, West Brom and Fulham are all contesting the automatic spots in the Championship at the moment. There’s seven points in it but there are still nine games left.

‘How can you say any team will definitely get promoted? At this stage of the season when you can see the finishing line, you just don’t know.

‘If you’re going down that route you’re opening up a can of worms and you’ve got to be very careful.’