If there is one thing that a pandemic can, or should be able to, teach football fans, it’s that you can’t always escape the world through sports. Sports can serve as a fantastic escape from our everyday lives, and I talk about this a lot, but life has a funny way of intervening from the things that we rely upon as diversions from the norm.
Take Covid-19. As Cameron Heyward said recently, you can’t fend the virus around football. You have to bend football around the virus, because it doesn’t care about what anybody wants to do. It’s going to do what it’s going to do, and it won’t slow down just because it’s inconvenient for you.