Wolves legend Kenny Hibbitt: Void season for sake of OAPs

Fixtures across the Premier League, EFL and non-league are currently suspended until early April, after a surge in coronavirus cases across the UK.

That date could be extended after the government championed ‘social distancing’ and Hibbitt – who spent 16 years as a Wolves player – has called on the Premier League to cancel all of the remaining fixtures.

“It’s a very strange time, but we have to brush sport to one side – people’s lives are more important,” he said.

“If by cancelling the league or all the fixtures, in sport in general where crowds get together, then that has to happen.

“It’ll be null and void and we start again next season when everything has settled down and got better.

“We really have to look after our older generation, it’s a serious matter and sport comes second.

“It’s something that we’ve never experienced before, I never saw it in my playing days.”

Meanwhile, Hibbitt has heaped praise on the current Wolves team as one to rival the historic squads of old.

The 69-year-old won the League Cup in both 1974 and 1980, and came runner up in the Uefa Cup in 1972, during his time in the old gold and black.

The current Wolves team have been replicating past heroics after reaching the last 16 of the Europa League and Hibbitt is pleased for the fans, more than anything.

“Everybody is afraid to play us,” he added. “Not just at Molineux, which is a fortress again.

“We lost that, it used to be like that in the 1970s, no team liked coming to Molineux.

“Now we have that back and you have to give full credit to the owners, manager and players.

“We should have spent a bit more money after we won the League Cup in 1980, but it wasn’t there, and we have that now.

“The fans deserve it because they’ve been through thick and thin.

“They’ve been very patient and they’re getting their rewards now, it’s a wonderful place to be.

“They deserve this. They have been to hell and back and now they are reaping the rewards of their support over the years and the younger generation are lapping it up – the older generation are loving it.

“The club has turned it around, big time.”