The climate crisis is hitting football – but the global game has time to take action David Goldblatt
almost 5 years in The guardian
The sport offers hope to millions. Now it can lead the way in taking radical steps to create a carbon-neutral world
Like everything else in 2020, the football season in Europe has been unusual. The Champions League final this Sunday, its traditional climax, is three months late. All eight quarter-finalists have been quarantined in Lisbon. What normally are two-legged home-and-away ties have been reduced to one match played in an eerie, empty and neutral stadium. Even games of the calibre of Bayern Munich’s 8-2 evisceration of Barcelona were rendered hollow and bizarre.
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