Sport in lockdown: 'Someone pulled the rug out from under the summer'

Our sports team on how they have kept readers supplied with nostalgia, commentary, humour – and even the odd exclusive

Sport’s unravelling happened haphazardly – and then suddenly. With Champions League and Europa League games behind played behind closed doors or postponed, and plenty of debate about whether other sports should continue, the turning point was Arsenal’s head coach Mikel Arteta’s diagnosis with coronavirus, which popped up on Thursday 12 March, a few hours after Boris Johnson had warned that many families would lose their loved ones. The next day, everything fell away.

Match reports have to be filed against tight deadlines. They always involve a mild sense of panic. I miss that

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