Almost buried beneath the fall-out from Friday’s Premier League meeting was the most salient fact of the day. Just two paragraphs in the Daily Mail on Saturday. One fat one in The Times. But crucial, nevertheless. In Germany, three Cologne players had tested positive for Covid-19.
As English football conjures ever more fanciful ways to conclude an interrupted season, this is the problem.
Anyone can get it — as the Government slogan goes — and that includes footballers. And it’s the footballers we need. We cannot do this without them.
We cannot find a way to conclude an interrupted season unless the footballers are on board
We cannot find a solution.