The Fiver | Irrelevant at the best of times, which these emphatically are not

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It doesn’t take much to discombobulate the Fiver. Usually just saying the word “discombobulate” is enough to get the job done. So imagine the state of our noggin with all the confusion and upheaval caused by Covid. We’re used to not knowing what day it is; now we don’t even know what season it is. 2019-20? 2020-21? 2314/97? And when we looked at the fixtures for this weekend and saw Chelsea v Manchester City and Arsenal v Liverpool, we didn’t know whether it was men’s football, women’s football or another televised festival of esports.

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