If there’s one thing we’ve grown accustomed to in modern football, it’s that it never really stops. The Champions League final, the traditional curtain drop for the club football season, typically takes place on the first Saturday in June and qualifying for the next season begins barely a month later. Over the summer fans can typically enjoy the World Cup, the European Championship or the Copa America and if those aren’t on the world’s biggest club sides will be playing glamour friendlies across the globe.
On almost any day, at any time of the year, you can bet that someone, somewhere, is playing profes-sional football. Then, in the space of just a few days, everything stopped.
The crucial date was March 13. It seems almost impossible to believe now that…
