The Euro 2020 competition has been rescheduled to this year.
Unlike traditional World Cups and Euros this one wasn't to be hosted in any particular country but instead hosted all across Europe, with teams flying all around Europe for their games.
Seven fixtures are scheduled to be in the UK ending with the Semi Finals and the Final.
Obviously this pan European high travel, lots of flights scheme was designed pre pandemic. Given the state of the pandemic surely it would make more sense for this competition to be hosted in the UK exclusively like a traditional competition and have a pan European one in a future year when the world isn't undergoing a global pandemic?
The UK was already going to host the final and semi finals anyway. By the Summer the UK vaccinations should have largely eliminated the virus from this country, it should be possible to have crowds in the stadiums and surely most importantly it would give a single country that all teams could enter early, have quarantine (if quarantines are still required by then) and not need to mess around with quarantines or flights during a pandemic during the competition itself?
The idea of a pan European Cup was a fun one I was looking forward to and it should be revived in a future year. But during a pandemic surely there are better ideas?