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English football during World War II showed how sport can heal and unify during times of crisis

Julien Laurens thinks this Premier League season should be abandoned so future schedules are not affected. With the Bundesliga set for a May 16 return, Jan Aage Fjortoft joins Gab & Juls to assess the title race. It's no wonder that football leagues across Europe are getting more serious about trying to resume the 2019-20 season behind closed doors. The coronavirus pandemic is the first time in history that virtually all European professional football (except the Belarussian league) has closed down. While researching my book "Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Soccer in Europe During the Second World War," I discovered that the ball rolled on even during both world wars. If the game's closure continues, we may...

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