Covering professional rugby during the Covid-19 crisis has at times felt like a glimpse of a nightmarish dystopian future
Finally this week will see spectators permitted to return to a rugby union ground in the UK. A few hundred souls will be allowed in to Murrayfield to watch Edinburgh play Glasgow Warriors on Friday, a symbolic moment that deserves more than cheap jokes about it being a bigger crowd than normal. Professional live rugby without fans is like a fried breakfast consisting solely of toast.
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