During Covid times when the Premier League’s chief executives and chairmen used to meet remotely via Zoom to talk about the many problems associated with lockdown and football behind closed doors, there was a running joke between a couple of them.
‘When stadiums were slowly opening up with reduced capacities we had to decide who to allocate tickets to first,’ one executive told me.
‘We talked about key workers and things like that. And the gag was that Daniel Levy would welcome his corporates back before anyone else.’
And that’s the thing about Levy.