Liam Mackey: From Turner’s Cross to Anfield, longing for football's new old normal to return

Fans virtually watch the Premier League meeting of Manchester City and Arsenal FC at Etihad Stadium   (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

After months that felt like years of the small screen in our little home stadium being colonised by ‘Normal People’, ‘Better Call Saul’, ‘Ozark’, ‘The Last Dance’ and re-runs of ‘Modern Family’ and ‘Friends’, I had issued a General Alert at the start of this week warning that, from Wednesday onwards, the collective would need to brace itself for an extended period of bingeing on a six-yard box set, a wholesale conversion to back of the Netflix.