We must accept that it will be many months before packed crowds will be returning to watch live competition
We still don’t get it. Even now, as death tolls rise exponentially across Europe and the greatest economic crisis of our age deepens, the white lies persist. That the football season could be completed by mid‑July. That the Olympics could take place a week or two after. That a bumper summer of sport will give the nation the mother of all pick‑me‑ups. It is an epic delusion. And, frankly, we have had enough of them already.
Over the weekend I spoke to a leading expert, who is involved with the national response to the coronavirus pandemic, to ask him when sport as we know it – in front of packed crowds – might return. His response was sober and downbeat. “My expectation is that this is something that is going to be around for a long period of time,” he said. “There are no silver bullets on the horizon. We are talking months and months – and perhaps even next year and beyond.”
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/23/coronavirus-sport-premier-league-tokyo-olympics under the title “Enough of this epic delusion: coronavirus makes sport in front of fans a long way off”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
