Martin Odoni

The implications for club in the medium-to-long term are probably minor, but in the short term, Chelsea is effectively in a limbo.

Surely the greatest spin bowler of all time, and perhaps the most iconic figure of the Australian game in the 1990’s, was found dead at his holiday villa on the Thai island of Koh Samui.

police had closed an outer entry gate, apparently telling the large queues still waiting for access that they would not be let in until half-time in the match. Many who had tickets were understandably furious at that, and, less forgivably, started pushing those ahead of them, and piling pressure on the gate. The gate was reopened to ease pressure, but the fans poured through out of control

It is hard to argue that Benitez really got a chance to fashion a team of his own choosing.

It is likely that Johnson was spinning his infection. He might well have had the SARS-Cov2 virus. But it seems implausible that he had the Covid-19 fever the virus causes, and which is the lethal part.

The hysteria about anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the left would at least have been more forgivable had it been based on the likely threat posed, rather than on mere offensiveness. The reason that the threat was never discussed in any mature depth by the mainstream media was because it was plainly laughable to say there was any threat to Jews from Corbyn’s Labour. That would have required an open and frequent assessment of the real numbers involved – 56 out of over 500,000 – but also the seniority of those involved.

Attitudes to concussion have thankfully transformed completely since the 1980s – an era when, scarily, there was nothing remarkable about players getting concussed, having a head-wash by the physio’s ‘magic sponge,’ and then carrying on playing. Current practice is worlds away from such folly.

It is surprising in this country how we learn to play sports as kids without ever getting to read the rules. The “two-hands-on-it-is-keeper’s-ball” ‘rule’ is one we all get wrong, because the laws of the game do not in fact say that.

Casey describes “rife drunkenness” and “drug-use.” Police dogs were kicked, officers attacked, bodies were “flung to the floor” and families of some of the players were “scared for their lives.”

At no stage between the taking of the corner and the ball crossing the goal-line did the referee blow his whistle. The injury to de Gea, from which he recovered very quickly, did not appear to be serious, and was in any event inflicted by a team-mate.