Project Restart has shrunk the sport to an elite pursuit within a sterile bubble, throwing up questions no one can answer
Well done, everyone: we did it. They said it wasn’t possible. They said it wasn’t safe. They said it would be tactless to start up one of the world’s most lucrative sports leagues while thousands are dying. They said it wouldn’t be a fair competition. They may still be right about all of this, of course. More on that in a moment.
But for now, football is back. Watch it. Drink it in. Lose yourself in a pure six-week football bender: 92 Premier League fixtures, spread across every day of the week and every conceivable time slot, all of it live on television, much of it free to air. Take that, null-and-voiders; dry your tears, PPG; up yours, Troy Deeney. Football is back and all it took was the spectre of financial catastrophe and the sight of Germany handling things far more adeptly.
Written by Jonathan Liew
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/may/30/premier-league-restart-spectre-financial-catastrophe under the title “Football is back and all it took was the spectre of financial catastrophe | Jonathan Liew”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
