My Football (Watching) Career!
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- Created: Saturday, 02 May 2020 12:51
- Written by Darren Douglas
After the last few weeks, I'm sure many of us are pretty fed up by now. Not only has Coronavirus led to dramatic changes to our everyday, normal lives, but it's also led to the word 'unprecedented' being used so much that I am now doing my best to use alternative phrases to make the point!
All jokes aside, the current situation is undoubtedly dramatic, and people will naturally be pining for things that we've never had to do without before. Whenever some form of normality returns, the fallout will prolong difficulties for some time, but we can only make the best of it and adapt. Football is just 1 commodity that has left a gaping hole in society, and so whilst I can no longer watch live football, I have taken the opportunity to look back at my own 'football watching career' for the 1st time...
As something of a lapsed Championship/Football Manager player, the suspension of real-world football in light of the coronavirus has given many cause to look back- in between harking to the real world of the game as it was in the early Nineties. That was my own coming of age as a fan, & conversations with an old friend brought up our old Friday night ritual of revisiting the Champ games of a similar vintage, hours spent in his study poring over what, to the non- initiated, might have looked like a sort of virtual Ceefax...
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