You don't know what you've got as a sports fan till it's gone | Max Rushden


For all the creative ideas to get us through this – Fifa marathons, free Football Manager, James Milner’s Instagram – I will never moan again when Super Sunday is ‘only’ West Ham v Everton

What the world needs is a vaccine for Covid-19. What it categorically doesn’t need is another person telling you they miss sport. Sadly, right now, that is all I can offer.

While we all try to navigate our way through the biggest global crisis in decades and what it means in our homes and across the planet, what percentage of our brains, if any, can be used up on our greatest passions?

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Of course it goes beyond football. When will we next hear Marais Erasmus saying 'rock and roll it' from the third umpire’s booth?

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