
The Magnificent Trivia
The great Scottish writer Hugh McIlvanney once described sport as “magnificent trivia”. Those words have never rung more true than in these disturbing and difficult times. Football , of course, pales into insignificance set aside the life and death matter of a global pandemic which has changed all our lives in the space of a few days. Suddenly it hardly matters whether the European Championships are postponed, who goes up and down , who wins the Champions League, whether