'Chinese tourists started turning up in facemasks, that was the first I heard of it... then they stopped coming': Life around Old Trafford during a pandemic
manchestereveningnews.co.ukstraight to your inbox every day for freeIt's Wednesday - derby day - and the streets around Old Trafford are all but deserted.In more normal times Sir Matt Busby Way would be thronged with thousands of expectant supporters making their way to the ground for one of the biggest games of the year.But since the pandemic struck and professional football was initially suspended, then allowed to continue without fans, it's been a different story.Matt Bonilla is the general manager of The Trafford, a long-standing supporters' pub just a stone's throw from the stadium on Chester Road.On match days the cavernous boozer - its walls lined with United memorabilia and signs saying "half and half scarves" which are beloved by tourists are banned - would.
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