Tuesday 20th October 2020, 7.15pm (day 3,344)
Going to see a football match is such a simple, harmless thing, and no one is compelled to do it. Our Glorious Leader and some associated bureaucrats, desperate to deflect blame away from the fact they’ve all been promoted above their level of competence, are desperate to take this pleasure away. Region is being played off against region, town against town, neighbour against neighbour even, and simple, harmless things are suddenly not so simple any more. What a farce all this has been, and a no-deal Brexit still to come.
This is about half an hour before kick off at Atherton Collieries’ very fine little ground, by the way. The hosts were smiling at the end — the scoreboard read 5-0 by full time.
Too much coming together of communities in the first lockdown. Left the blues and their leader feeling twitchy. Now they have decided to pick off region by region in the area they hate the most. More like Andy Burnham and the Middlesborough mayor are needed to push back and tell them that they are wrong