In the weeks since sport came to an abrupt ending, its only significant story has been its own cancellation
The best way to annoy a group of scholarly historians, if you ever have an urgent need to annoy scholarly historians – perhaps in some kind of emergency situation – is to propose a counterfactual analysis of events.
You know the kind of thing. What if Winston Churchill had died of a heart attack in 1941? What if skiffle, rather than the music of the Beatles, had seized the imagination of the world in 1963?
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2020/apr/10/vacuum-month-sport-that-never-was-barney-ronay under the title “Everything exists in a vacuum in the month that never was | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
