I don't know about you lot, but my worry (football-wise) is what the immediate future looks like for us as supporters.
It’s becoming clear that the game as we knew it, or should I say the idea of supporting a club in a top league, is going be very different as long as this damn virus is still around.
We’re all excited by the idea of football returning in the next few weeks. But let’s face it, until a vaccine is created, what we’ll be served up just ain’t acceptable.
I say that again after another round of pathetic Bundesliga matches this past weekend. I just can’t get into it.
Will that same feeling apply when the Premier League gets going and Chelsea play Liverpool or Spurs?
Unfortunately for me, I think it will.
There’s no doubt that the EPL will start again. In a couple of weeks La Liga kicks off, which for me almost guarantees top-flight football in England.
It’s amazing, just two months ago, Spain was being ravaged by Covid-19, with 10s of thousands of infections weekly and a daily death toll hovering around 1 000.
SOULLESS GAME: Chelsea and Spurs
But here we are, on the verge of their season restarting.
The big positive I’m taking out from the Spanish situation is that it appears their stringent lockdown has worked. It curbed the spread, they hit their peak and are now seemingly beginning to normalise.
That should be a signal to the predominantly white business world in South Africa to just pipe down for a minute and adhere to government advice. When will people get it into their heads that the more cautious we are now, the quicker we’ll get out of this mess?
The impact of lockdown on my life has been made that much easier as I am able to work from home (and have a small backyard)
But I don’t underestimate the devastation lockdown is causing for the less fortunate.
On a low-level example, I don’t fully understand the rationale behind the tobacco ban, not all of us “zol” and put “saliva on the paper” but unfortunately we will see many questionable decisions.
However, all-in-all, politics aside, I feel we’re in good hands leadership-wise.
The same can’t be said for the UK. There’ve been a catalogue of handling errors and restarting the Premier League appears to be one of them.
At last count, eight players had tested positive for the virus. And besides that, some players are refusing to train.
That number multiplies massively when considering the amount of players unhappy about the idea of competing, Danny Rose, Troy Deeney and Sergio Aguero being some of the most vocal.
VOCAL OPPONENT: Man City striker Sergio Aguero, left
What we’ll possibly be left with is a spectacle even worse than the Bundesliga.
There is a justified and growing sentiment amongst many players that money is more important than lives.
I was greatly disappointed with last week’s news that the “hugely encouraging” initial findings by a top team of scientists at Oxford University (tasked with developing a vaccine) turned out to be over-enthusiasm, with lab monkeys still susceptible to Covid-19 after receiving test doses.
However, on the flipside of my animosity towards capitalism, I’m hoping that the huge money being pumped into the race to find the magic serum will ensure a cure.
Until then, conservatively estimated at 12 months, there won’t be much to love about the game we love.