Coronavirus hit football hard as it suspended the season for three months with lockdown restrictions turning off the country.
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What comes with this pandemic is football without fans. Fans are what make football what it is today and it would be nothing without them.
The atmosphere in football games are now replaced by cardboard cutouts of supporters and in some cases fans noises in a desperate bid to make football feel normal again, but it never will be, it’s just not the same.
Doesn’t take my attention away from it one bit though, but I’m sure there’s not one person who actually likes the way football is right now.
The game needs the fans, the clubs need the fans and hopefully this nightmare of not being able to go to a football match will be over soon.
Lee Bowyer had his say on the new format of football as he spoke to Valley Pass and here is what he had to say
“It was fine, you have to adapt. We played a few games, one at our place and one at Arsenal just to get them used to it.
“It is strange and crazy because if I were to shout something on then no one really can hear apart from the person I’m trying to tell, but now if I were to shout something on the next bench hear what I’m trying to give as an instruction, so that’s something we need to be careful of.
“It’s strange times but the important thing is we’re back playing and we got off to a winning start.”
What a start it was to the new format of football as we swept aside Hull City 1-0, however it did feel like an U23s game without the fans, that’s the only thing that was strange about it, but we got there in the end.
Who knows maybe we will end up playing better without the fans, I do hope that’s true for now, but not when it comes back properly for obvious reasons.
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