Cursed Euro 2020 might just give us what we need next year - MW

The light is off. They will be re-lit across Europe - in 15 months if the current time continues. Despite what has hurt the 12 host cities of Uefa Lam, euros everywhere can suffer after that remains open to uncomfortable speculation.

Until now, the piazzas in Rome have been empty. Bucharest has declared a state of emergency. Madrid feels like a meteor is falling on us. As for the last place, London, well, this place comes like a ghost town.




The decision to postpone Euro 2020 was announced Tuesday afternoon after a video link conference of the member associations of Uefaùi. But it didn't surprise anyone.

It's the rhythm of the news cycle, it's hard to remember the giant sports news that looks like such a thought.

Last week, Liverpool were preparing to take over Atlético Madrid at Anfield and the established version of sports reality seems to be taking place, roughly. It took us a week to get from here to here. What paradigm shifts will take place in the next five weeks? European football has at least a start date for this healthy and bulky sports elephant. Euro 2020 is now officially Euro 2021, which will take place from June 11 to July 11, with the details and logistics to take over.

What to do with it? It has become a reflexive act to curdle and elicit the decision of each operator in each area. In fact, there is no good solution to this problem, as the postponement of European football, the 2 billion pound cash cow becomes negligible in addition to the wider effects of the virus's current decline.

Like any other football industry confronted with conjectures, compromises and a lively face revealing the wealth and the remaining space.

At least have time to collect and save something from the great world circus; and make fragile plans. The Champions League final has been postponed, with some speculation about a high summer final, but it should be remembered that such statements are not only intended for the public.

The main discussions are now with rights holders, sponsors, insurance companies and especially lawyers. The best efforts are made, just as the best efforts should always be made when the main contractual payments are in difficulty. Pencil that day. But not too heavy. In fact, we are all subject to events now and with a changing perspective.

For those who are consumed by the weekly football operetta, it seems predictable that national competitions must be ended, that the world arises from certain things. It should be recalled that the current forecast relates to the peak of infection which will arrive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of June. health potential, collapse service? Have some time to play the game. Despite the illusion of control, we are all the spectators of this vast film.

Beyond next summer, the Uefa will have to decide what it wants to do with the women's team of Euros, which will be superimposed on this revised men's tournament in four days.

The day may come sooner than later, because in tennis, the male and female tournaments can be played almost simultaneously, although it is a larger debate about vision and forecasting. In addition, there is the National League (has won some people who think of the National Union?) Will be piled up and the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup will be negotiated.

These planning issues can all be resolved. The larger problem once the seasons are disrupted and loss mitigation is exactly where we are left. Football in the epidemic era; in the era of anti-globalism; in an increasingly dangerous world How should it work? What is the plan? It surely always looks like a cursed tournament. Welcome to the cursed Euro. Do we ever get rid of it? At the beginning of everything, this Michel Platini called his pan a European spectacle, but it was a good idea. In fact, it was not.

The Uefa Rib Plan is a product of the banking crisis in Europe, which has deprived the football of a proper and lavish homeowner. Border jumps, low-cost air - travel compromises are a response to this. Eight years on Euros of Everywhere occupied a neat but pathetic position, battered by two global crises.

There was something deeper in their defeat. The original European Championship was inspired by a spirit of hope and internationalism. Henri Delaunay, Uefa's first general secretary, was fascinated by the ideals of the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of the EU. His championship, the first version that finally kicked off two years after his death, was somewhat a force for integration and progress.

Of course, that idealism has been consumed by the urge to expand and make money from this brilliantly successful branch of the entertainment industry.

At the end of which UEFA ended up giving us this ludicrously inflated version, with the match set up 3,200 miles apart, and a quarter-final scheduled to take place at a crowded spot of Riyadh.

Even before the current crisis, this is not a story of endless growth. Euros was looking for a time like a sickly, overwhelming concept. Last time the players were tired, the football was boisterous, the 24 team structure failed.

MW