The big kick off

The past weekend saw the whole of professional football in England start the new season.

It is just six weeks after the end of the old one. Promotions and relegations have been confirmed, fixture lists compiled and published.

And away we go.

I still have my subscription to Sky Sports, but I did not watch any of the live games over the weekend, though there were many. Because as per the restart, all games are live on TV, mostly Sky but on BT too, all staggard kick offs so that , if you wanted, you could have spent ten hours on the sofa watching footy.

I neither watch MOTD, though I have taped it and could do, but if there are no fans to watch it, does it matter? Or matter so much?

I don’t really care, and now that I have no personal interest in the Prem, I went out on Saturday taking pictures, and on Sunday we had friends round; games went unwatched. If the weather gets really crappy, I might watch some, but for now……..

That is true of the Premier League, anyway.

For the rest of football, and Norwich, the season started too, but with, as usual, most games kicking off at three on Saturday afternoon.

No games in the Prem or the Football league had any fans attending, and a partial return to some fans attending from next month has been abandoned as infection rate rise day on day. This could be the normal all through the season.

The Prem could survive the whole season being fan-free, and some Championship teams could survive too, maybe Norwich with their parachute payments. But others won’t, and the further you go down the pyramid, the more precarious it becomes. Once one club folds that will impact the rest in the division. A second goes and well it could be like a row of dominoes.

But maybe the Government knows what its doing and the second wave won’t come.