Johnny Nicholson: Even Covid can’t slow the football behemoth

Tottenham Hotspur's Lucas Moura gestures into a TV camera during a Premier League match. Even if almost no-one watched on Sky or BT Sport, it would keep paying to show football, says our columnist.

There will come a time when we will all return. From John O’Groats to Lands’ End, from sea to shining sea, we will once again go to football grounds, large and small to watch a game, trudging through the damp and cold, complaining that the forecast only predicted an 11% chance of rain.

It is the smallness of football that makes it great. The details that it provides a home to are part of the fabric we weave the story of our life around.