Watford coaching assistant Hayden Mullins has joined calls for the current Premier League season to be finished, after it was suspended by the coronavirus outbreak, but knows playing behind closed doors may be the only option available.

Reports online yesterday suggested that the league was considering a 'World Cup-style' TV mega event, in order to get games finished, with teams kept in isolation on hotels while games are played out daily in empty stadiums.

Mullins said that he hoped a solution could be found to help get the remaining 92 games played and restore a shred of normality.

"We need to play this season out, this season has to be finished," he said.

"[The suspension of the league] looks like it's going to go on a lot longer than what it originally set out to be, but everyone understands that, the players and myself and the staff and people I work with in the game, understand that we're in a difficult situation. But we also understand that people want to get back to normal as soon as they can and hopefully the government and the NHS can get some kind of way that we can all get back to a little bit of normality and we can resume the season again, however long that takes. I don't know how, but I do believe the season needs to be finished and teams need to play out and see how we get on."

While Mullins agreed that games ought to be played in front of supporters, he also said he would support that measure being taken, if it was the only way for the league to be completed.

"The players and the fans go together," he said.

"It's not the same playing in a stadium without having your fans there and having an atmosphere because the fans do make the league and it makes it special having your fans there.

"But if it comes to a situation where we have got to play games and we have got to get the season done behind closed doors, then I think if that's the only way we can do it then so be it, I would support that. Just in terms of getting the season finished and we know where we stand for the following season."