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The eerie, tepid games of football played without crowds have been one of the pandemic’s stranger sights. Accompanied by the AI noise engine that provides the soundtrack for football video games, they have been disquieting.
Why should watching Liverpool or Norwich, otherwise unchanged from before lockdown, feel so one-dimensional? What is a football club? The players and coaches come and go, owners and shareholders buy, sell up and move on, and they endure. Stadiums seem to embody them, until they are knocked down and relocated, but the club’s existence is unbroken. Even the legal entity that constitutes a club can be expunged and liquidated, only for the same club to rise again in a new form. Continue reading...