A month has now passed since the last football matches were played before packed stadiums in Europe, and the havoc wrought by the coronavirus ...
A month has now passed since football in Europe, and across the world, ground to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic. PARIS: A month has now passed since the last football matches were played before packed stadiums in Europe, and the havoc wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic means that nobody can say with any certainty when the sport might return.
Nobody knows when sport will be allowed to restart behind closed doors let alone before crowds. The psychological impact of the current situation means many people may well now have second thoughts about mixing with vast crowds at a football match in future. In England, football will not return until it is"safe and appropriate"to do so, authorities have said.
Scrapping a season that was close to its conclusion would not make sense, but it remains to be seen if the campaign can resume."No match, no competition, no league is worth risking a single human life," FIFA president Gianni Infantino has said."It would be more than irresponsible to force competitions to resume if things are not 100 per cent safe."
Leading football players and figures - from Juventus and France star Blaise Matuidi to Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta - have tested positive for the virus. Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz died.UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin remains hopeful this season can be completed eventually. There has been an unseemly dispute in England after UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock called for Premier League players to accept wage cuts.
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