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Silence not golden for sport

ON the 17th May this year, on these very pages, I wrote the following opening paragraph: Sport with no fans? Get used to it people. Make peace.

It was one thing to write it, another to quite believe it and it has proved impossible to live those words.

I can’t get used to professional sport’s ‘new normal’. I can’t make peace with it.

I want to go to the stadium and watch matches. I want the television experience of watching

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