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 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...