This was the year when sport truly rediscovered its voice. By the spring of this year those fans began to be heard again – initially outside rather than inside the venues. But they had also clearly not taken the pulse of their own fans, whose outrage was unequivocal. The voice of fans was heard too in a significant piece of work led by Conservative MP Tracey Crouch. As 2021 ends, the omicron variant casts a fresh shadow over what has felt like a return to something approaching ‘normal’ in sport.

Source: Express December 16, 2021 06:09 UTC