The Coronavirus has brought chaos to global sport with major football matches played behind closed doors and postponements have been widespread across elite football, despite Government insistence that the show would go on.
Dr Tosh Warwick, Heritage Unlocked founder and Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University , looks at how the threat of COVID-19 has echoes of a Victorian epidemic and twentieth century outbreaks that brought tournament postponements, matches behind closed doors and conflict between clubs and football’s governing bodies…
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