{"id":1777,"date":"2020-03-23T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2020-03-23T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:26:05","slug":"why-football-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/why-football-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Football Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I wrote a piece asking whether football will ever be the same again<\/a>. The general premise of it was that even once all of this is over, we’ll still feel cautious about spending time in the same space as other people, fearful that Covid-19, or something like it, will always be lurking in the background, ready to strike. I’m still not entirely sure that things will return to anything like normality, but the more I think about it the more important I think football is. Obviously fans of the sport don’t need me to tell them that, but what about people affected by football in a wider sense? Husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends that don’t like the sport but know that their other halves do have spent most of their lives basing decisions around football. When holidays can be taken or events celebrated will have been dictated by what’s going on on the football pitch. That’s to say nothing of people whose mood depends on football results.<\/p>\n

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This Coronavirus has made me realise how much my life revolves around Liverpool FC & Football.#LFC<\/a> #COVID19<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Scouser Chris (@ScouserChrisLFC) March 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n