Keir RADNEDGE

Project Restart

Sooner or later, one week or month or another, normal service had to be resumed. That applied for sport in general and football in particular as much as everyday life in cities, towns, villages and communities across Britain, Europe and the world in general.

Coronavirus has not killed at the massive rate of so-called “Spanish flu,” which claimed 50 million victims worldwide just after the First World War. But it has undermined daily life in a manner unimaginable even as it began to take its fatal grip. Worldwide and national economies have been radically altered, and inevitably that has included sport.

In England, Friday, March13, was the date football stopped. Three Brighton players tested positive for COVID-19 and so did Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta. Two weeks earlier, the