The beauty, the grace, the basic pleasure of these gaudy entertainments will remain unaffected though help needs to go to everyone, not just the loudest
And, breathe. Preferably, it goes without saying, into a vacant space. At the end of a week when the sporting news cycle has seemed to pulse and spread and multiply like a malevolent bacillus, two things are abundantly clear. The correct decision on containment has – and this is important: only reluctantly – been made. And professional sport has never known a week like this.
But then, no one in Europe has known a week like this. Welcome to the world of the post-modern pandemic, where anxiety spreads ahead of the tideline, where unravelling the semiotics of plague and plague politics seems to be almost as pressing as the plague itself. And where even sport, the great distractor, can be cancelled at a stroke.
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