Choosing to take that seriously for a second… apparently Gates is not that much of a computer wiz (somebody who really does know IT and software told me that, and I trust them on it), but he's an exceptional assembler and organiser of teams that do include real computer wizzes.
Back to the issue in hand.For myself, I'd love to have been at the Leipzig game, but although I've held a season card for several years I don't live in the U.K. Like a nutcase, I've chosen to go back to working on Wednesday mornings, despite being retired, and it would be very, very tight indeed for me to get to the Etihad (from France) for that evening.
I would do it if I lived in greater Manchester, because if there's one thing I've made up my mind about during the Covid/lockdown period – or rather, I've had my mind made up for me – it is that watching matches on a screen at home absolutely does not do it for me (and there's no local bar/pub that was showing the match). Hope to be over soon to see my blues, but as long as your government imposes the little matter of a PCR test both before and after arriving on your shores (at a cool £80 or so a throw), even to those who've had the double jab (I have), well, I think I'll have to pass on it.
As for those who go or don't go, and whether the stadium is full — we absolutely should not allow ourselves to be bothered by this. We're just pleasing our enemies by showing that we're bothered. Fuck em.
