by Fatihah
photo by google
Do we dwell on the sport that was played between COVID disruptions and in unusual circumstances, or the events that were not?
While normally this is a matter of sorting through the customary triumphs and tragedies, identifying heroes and villains, and squabbling about respective merit on partisan lines, this year's retrospective will be, yes, unprecedented.
Any reminiscence of 2020 will begin with the eerie sight of games played in empty stadiums during that mid-March twilight zone when the pandemic had descended but we had not quite grasped its full implications.
Then the great sporting drought — the hiatus during which we did not merely ponder life without professional and recreational sport but its absence became a reality of our newly distanced and isolated lives.
The first will be to return the game to a sense of normality and to avoid the temptation to repeat COVID-season innovations such as the "festival of footy" fixture that pleased broadcasters but left players hopelessly fatigued.
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