Tommy Martin: Was our passion for the Nations League just a summer fling?
UEFA Nations League Group B1, LKS Stadium, Lodz, Poland 14/6/2022
Your correspondent got a good sense of where the UEFA Nations League stands in the greater scheme of things when the bosses at the TV day job told us that we were being bumped off Virgin Media Two in favour of Love Island.
Our regular live football slot, we were informed, would be taken over by shirtless hunks and pouting jezebels, an invasive species against which the fag end of football season stood no chance. Other than asking Brian Kerr to don speedos and douse himself in fake tan, we had to accept that UEFA’s much-maligned summer jamboree would be shown in the perfectly acceptable but slightly humbler surroundings of Virgin Media Three. With the pursuit of romance a bigger ratings-winner, the Nations League was the love that dare not speak its name.
