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The climate crisis is hitting football – but the global game has time to take action | David Goldblatt

The sport offers hope to millions. Now it can lead the way in taking radical steps to create a carbon-neutral world

Like everything else in 2020, the football season in Europe has been unusual. The Champions League final this Sunday, its traditional climax, is three months late. All eight quarter-finalists have been quarantined in Lisbon. What normally are two-legged home-and-away ties have been reduced to one match played in an eerie, empty and neutral stadium. Even games of the calibre of Bayern Munich’s 8-2 evisceration of Barcelona were rendered hollow and bizarre.

Related: The football industry needs to wake up to the climate emergency

Continue reading…The sport offers hope to millions. Now it can lead the way in taking radical steps to create a carbon-neutral worldLike everything else in 2020, the football season in Europe has been unusual. The Champions League final this Sunday, its traditional climax, is three months late. All eight quarter-finalists have been quarantined in Lisbon. What normally are two-legged home-and-away ties have been reduced to one match played in an eerie, empty and neutral stadium. Even games of the calibre of Bayern Munich’s 8-2 evisceration of Barcelona were rendered hollow and bizarre. Related: The football industry needs to wake up to the climate emergency Continue reading…

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