Bob Westerdale: After Covid subsides, let's win the title for Tron
and live on Freeview channel 276
Except you can do one, but not really the other in ice hockey, right now.
While Sheffield Steelers have been in exciting form for most of the EIHL season, they cannot guarantee it will continue.
That isn't a sporting decision, it's a public health one.
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So 70,000 people can cram into Old Trafford for an open-air football match - and scream their lungs out - but the Government focus could likely hurt minority sports like ice hockey, boxing, and basketball, much more.
Tony Smith, the Steelers' owner, and League chairman knows what it's like to see a season go up in smoke. Covid prematurely ended the 2019-20 term.