Brighton seem safe now but beware...look what's happened to Bournemouth

To reiterate, it’s abundantly clear that football is nothing without supporters, although having said that I’d imagine the majority of Tottenham fans are glad they don’t have to go to their new stadium to watch Jose’s team?

As for the Albion, the Covid 19 Pandemic and the subsequent restart could represent a pivotal moment in the club establishing themselves long term as a Premier League.

There’s no way of getting round it, prior to the Arsenal game, Graham Potter’s team were the only professional football club in England who had won in the league in 2020.

Many people, both amongst the Albion faithful and beyond, were of the opinion that only being two points above the drop zone, the Albion would be pushed to guarantee a fourth season in the top flight.

I knew it wasn’t going to be a cake walk, but with 36 points on the board, prior to champions Liverpool’s visit to the Amex, I, and many others, believe there will be Premier League football in Sussex next season.

I still think the Albion will pick up points in the games against Southampton, Newcastle and Burnley, so we could yet see the Albion passing the 40 point mark.

Moving on to the new campaign, lessons have to be learnt, and a cursory look at the wheels coming off down the coast at Bournemouth, the Albion need to make sure they don’t go down the same route as the Cherries.

As for the Amex, will be the fans be back there for the scheduled start of season 20/21 in September?

The limitations in our pubs and shops indicate that we certainly not ‘out of the trees’ when it comes to Covid 19, I would be amazed if we are back at the Amex watching the Albion from ‘week one’ but would hope that the situation would have eased enough to have spectators back in all professional grounds by late November early December.

As for Non League football the fans adage is even more significant, basically non league football can not operate without fans coming through the gate, talk of a nationwide October start right across the pyramid is both encouraging and essential as the very future of many non league clubs depends on it, let’s just hope and pray we don’t get a second spike!

And finally, Test cricket is back albeit behind closed doors. I’ve no doubt the £2.5million inducement to the West Indies Cricket Board was a big factor in the tourists coming over to England this summer, but needs must.

It will be different, but ultimately it’s still cricket and another step towards normality, or whatever that is post Covid.