I thought, if this Cheltenham stuff was a scene in a disaster movie, it wouldn’t make sense. Of course movies have to make some kind of sense on their own terms, whereas real life just happens. Would anyone be surprised if the Cheltenham crowd turned out to contain an above-average proportion of the type of people who become furious when their car pings to remind them to fasten their seat belt? It turned out that, whatever “the science” was telling Johnson, the players were not excited about the part earmarked for them in his government’s grand experiment. But the PFA marches to the beat of a different drum; this is England.

Source: The Irish Times March 16, 2020 07:00 UTC