THE RETURN OF WHAT?

So what do we all think about the return of the Premier League and The Arsenal playing a minimum of 11 matches (this includes the FA Cup quarter final) and most other teams playing 9 games? The time frame that I have seen quoted seems a bit ambitious. 

Is this about commerce, sport, uplifting the nation or something else? Is it about the economy?

I’m assuming that this will coincide with pubs reopening and some people getting carried away, after all football on the telly with this schedule is unprecedented:

Games on a Friday will kick off at 8pm.

Saturday matches will start either at 12.30pm, 3pm, 5.30pm and 8pm.

Sunday matches will kick off at either 12pm, 2pm, 4.30pm and 7pm.

Games on a Friday will kick off at 8pm.

Midweek games on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays will kick off at either 6pm or 8pm.

I haven’t even mentioned the European Tournaments and how it would be possible to fulfil those fixtures. 

I also wonder if it will be a success or a reminder of how far football, Pre-Covid, has eaten itself? Avaricious agents, sky high ticket prices, fixtures moved at the whim of broadcasters, the fan being treated as customer: and not a very valued customer at that. The match day experience costing an arm and a leg and the corporate boxes full of bystanders, will this pandemic with it's inevitable self reflection have an impact on all that?

For whoever goes on to win the League & FA Cup will those victories feel tainted to the fans of those clubs or will it be a moment of joy in what has been a pretty joyless year?

I can’t help but think that this commencement of football is all about money. Money for the clubs, the TV companies, the breweries, the advertisers and all the cogs in the football machine

Maybe I’m over thinking it and it’s simply about getting the football back on the box and the pubs back open. After all this would be a great distraction from this government's chicanery!