As and when there is more clarity and control over covid-19, a return to football behind closed doors might be prudent As the Coronavirus lockdown looms large, every sporting league today faces a question: to cancel or not?
Nowhere is this question more relevant than in European club football, which has frozen in its tracks towards the business end of the current season.
Football in the major national leagues, and continental competitions have been suspended indefinitely. Given the toll the Coronavirus pandemic has exacted, and the inability of science to tame it yet, full normalcy seems far-fetched.
But the footballing world is sending out feelers. The German Bundesliga allowed clubs to return to team training from April 6, albeit with