Football in the time of corona

There is no certainty how this season will pan out.

These, to use a cliché, are surreal times. A month or so after the end of the last season the new Premier League season is just two weeks away. In between there have been the final stages of the Champions and Europa leagues. Other European leagues like the Scottish League and French Ligue 1 are already underway. The Community Shield, the traditional curtain raiser in the English game, has been brought forward by a week, to make way for international matches taking place next week, and is being played this weekend.