Looking for crumbs of comfort in the postponement of Euro 2020 is one way of coping as football becomes an immense irrelevance ... but get real
Say what you will about our monumentally mind-warping new reality but it certainty offers the opportunity to type sentences that might have appeared to be facetious attempts at satire a mere fortnight ago. Sentences like “Manchester United are working from home.” Or “West Ham’s Karren Brady has suggested there is an antidote to the deadly coronavirus pandemic.”
If the latter reference puzzles you, let’s see it in action in Karren’s critically misunderstood Sun column from last weekend (in which she decided, among other things, that the Premier League season should be declared null and void and Liverpool denied the title despite being 25 points clear at the top).
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