This will take some getting used to. The substitutes and coaches sat at metres’ distance from each other, all wearing face masks. Pre-match festivities did not extend beyond the piping-in of music that rattled the rafters of Signal Iduna Park. The only fans visible were those featuring on video screen footage.
And the shouts of players and coaches were underlaid by the constant hum of the electrics that power a stadium built for 80,000 fans that should have filled it for the Revierderby originally scheduled to have been played in March.
Written by John Brewin
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