FOOTBALL: Covid 1, rest of the world 0
With fans and players in lockdown, the immediate future of football is in limbo
07 May 2020 - 05:00
I’m feeling guilty. In the face of the awful number of lives lost, and so much economic devastation, football seems an irrelevant triviality. Yet I miss the fix of the beautiful game, and can’t help fearing for its future.
Football’s prize global audience and financial drawcards, the major European leagues, remain unfinished as the business of football has — like all enterprise — ground to an unceremonious halt...
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