The Last Word With... Joe Sullivan

I remember back at the start of all this, I was wondering when it was all going to end, and I’m still none the wiser although definitive progress has been made, not just in football, but in many other walks of life and we can only hope that we can all come through this pandemic safely.

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I recall once the furlough was nearing 10 weeks, I was at home thinking that If I had to write a Last Word column, I would be stating that this was the longest I have ever been away from Celtic Park since I was about 10 years old. Up until this furlough, the longest I had been away from the stadium was during the close-season, and that, as you know has got even shorter since I first started regularly going to football about 50 years ago.

I thought 10 weeks was a long time, but now, after around six months of furlough, that 10-week absence seems a long time ago and quite short in the big picture as football has begun to take the first tentative steps back to some sort of normality.

My own particular furlough isn’t exactly over, it’s now down to a part-time furlough, but with more staff gradually making their way back in various departments at Celtic Park, it’s another sign that football is hopefully on its way back and it’s why I’m writing a