Hello, this is The Game Podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer.

joining Gregor Robinson and I today it is Alison Rudd.

Alison, hello, how are you? How was your weekend?

It was good. I went to my first lockdown game and I was, I will admit, I was nervous.

I just, I don't know why I expected to be sat in the middle of a stand with no desk,

no wifi, no power, and for it to be a nightmare, but Bournemouth, they really looked after the media.

We had special little desks and I think they put in new plugs and we had big TV screens,

so it was nice, they made it as nice as they could.

So it was a sort of extended press area for you by the sound of it that managed to accomplish?

Yeah, we sat opposite the real press box.

The real press box was occupied by the staff of the clubs, but they made sure that the

make-believe press area was workable and that's all you want, you want to be able to do your job

and not think I'm going to file this, so they were good and apologetic that all they could give us

was water but that was the rule and it was fine. Okay, well it sounds very good at Bournemouth

and of course you were at Craven Cottage, Gregor, was it similar circumstances for you?

Yes, yes, everyone was spread out, very much around the stand, although we didn't have a

weed desk, we were sitting on Foulham's old wooden seats unfortunately, but they did produce

power for us, so it was all very strange, the game was very entertaining and I'm sure you

were very entertained watching it, particularly at the end. How did you guess?

Yes, but it was just, I don't know, there was something sort of huge was missing and that's

obviously what that was and I think it will affect the players for as long as this continues, I think

to kind of reach in the very, very peak performance and the highest levels that footballers can,

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