The cover of the latest edition of the football magazine Four Four Two captures it best. “Going Back To The Match’ is the headline with an illustration in the style of the great painter of industrialised northern England, LS Lowry. The matchstalk men and women, if not the matchstalk cats and dogs, gather outside the stadium and prepare to go into the ground. What was once ordinary may this season seem extraordinary. The Premier League plans to have full attendances for its fixtures this season. Plans have had a way of being upended by the pandemic but it may be…

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