It is billed as an 11-city football extravaganza from Baku to Bucharest, Seville to St Petersburg. But when Euro 2020 kicks off a year and a day later than planned in Rome on Friday night, a continent will be holding its breath. For while the tournament is the biggest and most ambitious event since the onset of the pandemic and a significant staging post on the road back to normality, the hope and expectation will inevitably be laced with uncertainty.
How could there not be nervousness, given that 24 teams will be crisscrossing Europe to play 51 matches in the teeth of a global pandemic? When the idea of staging
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