Covid-19 affected Kaizer Chiefs.“I think that it would be easy for me to grasp that as an excuse,” Baxter said. “Global football has been suffering. What I would say is that many leagues have been learning as they have gone along. They’ve made a ruling and then they’ve realised, ‘We’ve got to be more flexible than that’.
“I would just hope that we can do that in SA. And I realise there’s arbitration and all these things so I can’t say too much. But I would hope that would be what comes out of this — that we move along with the knowledge we have of the situation.
“I don’t think there’s anybody in the Premiership who had anywhere near what we had. But there have been clubs who had their games postponed and rearranged.
“I hope that we get to that point. If we don’t we’ll have to deal with it. I’m not going to use it as an excuse. “But it would have been absolutely nice to have played those games and to exact a bit more pressure on Sundowns, because at the moment they’re playing with no-one breathing down their necks.
“Chiefs — and it is hypothetical, because you have to play the games — potentially could have been doing that.”
“I hope not,” Baxter said. “I hope I’m big and ugly enough to put that behind me no matter what happens. I don’t want to carry that stone. I’ll put that down if it goes that way. And then I just hope that whatever comes out of it we learn and we adapt.”
