“It can’t be avoided: the season ends on the June 30 deadline for the presentation of club budgets and player contracts,” he said. “They are arrogant and irresponsible: they only think about their economic interests and the cups.

“But, for the Italian championship, UEFA decides that, to resume, it must end by June?

“Are we going to play every other day? Or does UEFA also have the power to stretch their days and make them 72 hours long?

“If you want to do something with UEFA’s profits, send oxygen cylinders and respirators to Brescia. We would be grateful.

“I speak for Brescia. Here we have the trucks that transport the dead. We are at the centre of the epidemic.

“In any case, the players would come from 45 days of total inactivity, it would take a month of training just to get them back in shape. Otherwise they risk everyone getting injured.”

Cellino has come under fire from Lazio chairman Claudio Lotito, who suggested he wanted the season cancelled because Brescia were bottom of the table.