We are not yet exonerated from the pandemic, it is still ravaging the world, with numbers keep on increasing every single.
Many countries have taken measures to relax the lockdown, seeing how it is difficult to compel people to stay in door, where there is no sufficient plans to sustain citizenry.
Relaxing the lockdown is a way to let people, at least get something to hold on to, because if this lockdown continue, those who have nothing to eat, might become a wolf amongst sheep, and everyone wouldn’t talking about the pandemic again, but a different story.
Sports is meaningless without fans. It is really going to be absurd without fans.
Fans can’t really attend it, since the pandemic spread easily where there are crowd.
At this critical point, you need to think about the welfare and well-being of the people, it is definitely too early to talk about restart of sports.
Leagues like English Premier League, Spanish Laliga, Italian Seria A and Bundesliga are pushing plans to restart their leagues despite the pandemic ravaging people.
Sports unites the world, and stakeholders now are absolutely thinking about the loss financially, if the leagues are scrapped.
English left-back Danny Rose has outrightly spoken how it too early to talk about sports and numb to restart, yet neither drugs or vaccine have been for the pandemic.
It is understood that, players will be tested before leagues could restart FA have taken this into notice to an extent guarantee safety of the players against the pandemic.
But situation where majority of first team players are tested positive, what could be the fate of such team will they opt play or not. That’s one of the reasons it is absurd to restart sports, while the pandemic is still at its peak.
Sports should be sidelined for the meantime, until vaccine or drug is found to cure the pandemic, people’s lives are at risk now.
What is the meaning of scrapping initial handshaking before the match while, players still have contacts during the match, then what are they preventing.
It is unhealthy to look at it one-sided, where so many considerations can still be put in place before thinking about restarting sports.
FIFA should be able to have a deep thought about the welfare of the players, it is really disheartening to think about sports while many people are fighting for their lives, those who are willing to come and watch their teams play, due to the pandemic, they couldn’t, what type of message are you sending to them, sports is not all about games, it is more than a game, it nurtures something beyond games.
