Fans are back but not as we know it, and it is a very different game if you have to worry about high-fiving a stranger
Football – we have been told repeatedly – is “nothing without fans”. On Wednesday they finally returned – evenly spaced in their tier 2 world. Such is the nature of how quickly we adapt to things, it almost came as a shock seeing human beings standing behind the goal as I watched Cambridge United’s 1-0 defeat to Mansfield on my laptop.
It was strangely emotional as the U’s walked out from underneath the main stand to generous applause. Within a minute of Carlisle’s game with Salford, fans were booing the referee. Perhaps it won’t take long to get back to normal.