Gary Sweet says the Conference campaign needs to be completed to protect the integrity of the football and spare legal the game of legal challenges from unhappy clubs.
League Two has already voted to curtail the season, though that still has to be ratified by the EFL, but Luton and other second tier clubs will return to training on Monday, with a view to restarting the season sometime next month.
“I’ve always said I think the season should play out, the season has to close on merit if at all possible and I’ve even gone as far to say I’d rather take our chances than retain our Championship place if there was a cancellation,” Sweet explained.
“Looking at how League Two is likely to vote this week, League Two is likely to conclude with promotions and relegations, so I think it’s highly likely if the season was cancelled Luton would be relegated, but clearly we shouldn’t be happy about.
“At the end of the day, football has got to finish the season, the integrity of the sport, even if it goes beyond July, I think is more intact by playing the season out than having a whole host of litigations from various clubs on leagues and clubs on clubs, because people are looking after their own interests.
“What’s got to happen here is we’ve got to look after our own society first, football second and then our own clubs third, so from that point of view, absolutely we want to play out.”
Town have nine games left to play and are second from bottom, six points from safety and Sweet said: “The Championship is really pretty much all steam ahead. There are obviously clubs, managers, coaches and players that have concerns, that we, as clubs and the League, are seeking to rectify and settle any nerves that are out there.
“But, generally, I’ve got to say that everybody’s desperate to get back actually, from where we are. I think it’s a case of, let’s just get back training for a couple of weeks.
“I think three to four weeks is the minimum amount of training time you can give players before you expect them to play competitively, so if they’re coming back next week, the earliest you could really feasibly return is the middle of June, to play.
“So, that is an approximate period of time that’s in our eye, as the League, to try and target for a first game.
“But nothing has been set at this time and I don’t think it would be sensible to do that until we have some training under our belt and we know everything’s fine.”
