ABSTRACT

Football is currently given a significance it just does not deserve. To many fans now, it seems to have an obsessional, unhealthy importance. The current Covid-19 pandemic is an opportunity to gain a renewed perspective on football. It is just a game. We can easily live without it – if we have to. During the Second World War, for example, professional league football stopped in England for seven years. The current disruption of the game may enable us to see and value the game in a different, healthier way. This commentary explores the impact of Covid-19 on the game in England, in part by using a historical perspective, drawing upon events which have significantly disrupted the game in the country in the past. To put events in England in a wider perspective, I also then include some reflections on the impact of Covid-19, other pandemics and other events, which have disrupted football around the world.

摘要

足球目前被赋予了它不应该拥有的意义。现在对于许多粉丝来说，它似乎具有令人着迷的，不健康的重要性。当前的Covid-19流行病是一个机会，可以让人们重新了解足球。这是只是一个游戏。如果需要，我们可以轻松地没有它。例如，在第二次世界大战期间，职业足球联赛在英格兰停了七年。当前对游戏的破坏可能使我们能够以不同，更健康的方式观看和评价游戏。这篇评论探讨了Covid-19对英格兰游戏的影响，部分是从历史角度出发，借鉴了过去曾严重破坏该国游戏的事件。为了更广泛地介绍英格兰的赛事，我还对Covid-19，其他大流行病和其他事件的影响进行了一些反思，这些影响已经破坏了全世界的足球。