Forced to play in empty grounds, a lot of smaller football clubs are going bankrupt. Clubs at the top of the pyramid are more fortunate. Even without fans paying to come through the turnstiles, the big clubs can rely on TV money to fund the grotesque transfer fees and players’ wages. Mesut Özil, the Arsenal midfielder, is currently being paid £18m a year to not play football; the last time he warmed the substitutes’ bench was back in March. At the same time, Arsenal, pleading penury, have sacked 55 members of their backroom staff and the club’s dinosaur mascot. Fantasy football is alive and well; it’s called the Premier League.
Licensed today: a farmhouse under construction near Caldbeck, Cumbria…
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