When Will We See Our Football Friends Again?

The Football Association Chairman Greg Clarke has admitted to the the BBC that he doesn’t expect fans to be able to watch their teams ‘any time soon’ with the Premier League already planning to play the 2020/1 season behind closed doors too.

Mr Clarke said, ‘The reality is that we don’t know how things are going to pan out’.

And haven’t we all been saying the same thing? It’s OK saying ‘players are returning to training’ and ‘we are going to start playing games on such-and-such a date’ when, in all honesty, nothing, because of the coronavirus, can be set in stone.

We don’t know when we will get our lives back and, in fact, if they will ever get back to normal again. We don’t know what the effect of the virus will have on any of us. We don’t know how long it will stay here, when it will leave, if ever.

We hope but we don’t know.

As football fans of course we want to be able to see our teams compete again, we want to be there to cheer them on, sing, chant, applaud. But we also want everybody to be safe. Football, I hear you say, isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything but football does bring a lot of revenue into this country one way and another.

I think most of us have been watching old football clips on YouTube and the like, keeping in contact with our footy chums on social media and I’ve even found myself taking my season ticket out and looking at it (don’t ask me why!) I’m feeling quite lost on Saturday’s and even contemplated putting my ‘going to football’ clothes on (I didn’t!) There are people who sit around me at the New York Stadium who I don’t have contact numbers or are Facebook friends and I do wonder how they are going on.

But I am safe and in these times I’m happy to be able to say that.

Now, all we can do is keep listening and reading to what the Football Authorities are telling us – whether we believe them is another matter!

Stay Safe.

Up The Millers.