These Covid times continue to throw up weird and wonderful scenarios.
The 2020/21 edition of Europe’s premier club competition, the Champions League, got under way in Nyon, Switzerland this afternoon, before Barcelona and Bayern Munich had confirmed their places in the quarter-finals of the 2019/20 edition.
Northern Ireland league champions, Linfield secured their place in Tuesday’s preliminary round final by defeating Tre Fiori (Three Flowers) the champion club of San Marino, 2-0. A pair of Frenchmen proved match-winners for the Irish in Bastien Hery and Christy Manzinga, a recent signing from Scottish Premier League side, Motherwell.