Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur, Anfield, Saturday, 7.45 – Live on BT SportIt was the worst of times. And it was also the worst of times. It is easy – and also probably best – to forget the most recent spike of Premier League Covid chaos, a febrile few weeks of Omicron-mayhem either side of Christmas that has now dissolved into just another note in the mildly hallucinogenic flipchart of crises and collapses that comprises the last two and a half years.
Scroll back five months and those dark December weeks were deeply unsettled. There were whispers of another cancelled Christmas, of surges and spikes and circuit-breaker lockdowns. And of course in the …
- May 7, 2022
