The wait for soccer to return is frustration enough. But throw in home schooling his two sons, Taj, eight, and Harvi, six with teaching special needs students at The Bidgee School, plus a fortnight in quarantine after a trip overseas, and it's more than understandable.

"We've been doing some online learning at home and trying to do some video conferences with kids, but it's difficult at times," Angel said.

"We've only got 49 kids, a lot of high needs and varying levels of abilities. We sometimes get parents calling saying 'we can't get them to do anything' (learning at home), and I fully understand that.

"There's days where I can stand next to a kid for two hours and not get them to do anything.

"A lot of the time the parents can't keep them going, the kids rule the roost and if they don't want to do it, it doesn't get done."

"I think I use all my patience at school. I've been trying to home school my own kids and my frustrations sometimes get the better of me there."

The 37-year-old went on a trip to Sri Lanka and had to quarantine for two weeks upon his return.

He did so in a caravan on his mum and dad's farm at Lake Albert, staving off the tedium as best he could.

"It was as boring as bat s***," he said.

"I was trying to get out and run on the farm every day for some exercise, and caught up on a lot of stuff you always say you're going to do like getting rid of the crap pictures on your phone..

"I tried to learn a bit of Spanish and kept up to date with what was going on at school, helping a few teachers via Zoom conferences.

"I was very happy for that to finish. It sounds good in theory having two weeks away from your kids and the sleep ins were good for that first week, then I was just ready to go home.

"I slept in the caravan and spent the daylight hours just sitting on mum and dad's back verandah."

Angel is "desperate" for soccer to resume and said some suggestions within Pascoe Cup circles that finals be ditched this year have merit.

"I'm desperate for it, a lot of my social interactions with people is just though sport," he said.

"I saw people talking about a season without finals, it's probably an option given it's going to be a long time, probably a couple of months until we can start.

"You play everyone once Premier League style and if you finish on top you get it, that's probably a good outcome.

"You'll almost have a grand final every week because you can't afford to drop many points during the season.

"Everyone's learnt they have to be flexible and accept what they can get. I'd happily lift the trophy at training the week after, it doesn't matter where it is."

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