Footballers are often seen as living in a bubble: pampered and preening, with their every whim attended to by an army of fawning assistants and club staff.
Broadly speaking, the perception is that most of the players in the millionaire boys’ club are detached from reality, and thus unafflicted by many of the problems or decisions that the rest of us are often forced to agonize over.
But there are times when we’re reminded that football and its high-level protagonists don’t exist in a complete vacuum, and that the bubble is not as entirely imporous as it sometimes seems.
The coronavirus pandemic is one such instance.
When Covid arrived last year, football shut down, just like factories, shops and countless other industries.
Footballers were left working from home and twiddling their thumbs like millions of others – albeit in far more salubrious surroundings.
In that respect, the pandemic was something of a leveler, a rare shared experience between elite athletes and mere mortals.
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