Bill Shankly didn't get much wrong in his managerial career - with one exception. He once stated football was more serious than life and death.
Perhaps he was being flippant. Perhaps he had got his priorities in a twist. Perhaps he had become so seduced by all his success that he actually believed this to be true.
We will never know, because Shankly died in Liverpool's Broadgreen Hospital in 1981. What we do know is that even a visionary like him could never have imagined a time when not just football, but sport in general would find itself in such unprecedented circumstances as it does now.
The coronavirus crisis is like nothing we have experienced before in modern times. Not since the last World War has the sporting calendar faced such a
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