“You see‚ football brings together up to 90 000 people and if you can have a football match‚ then that means you can also have a church service.
“It means you can have a political rally‚ you can also have a big church mass service because the highest number of people who gather at any particular place will always be football.
“Even rugby or cricket will have 30 000 or 40 000 people excited about those sports‚ but football is the one code (you go to) if you want to test whether things are back to normal.
“Then you can have your factory of 1000 workers together because now you can 90 000 spectators together. It means we are back to normal.
“In a sense football will be the indicator if we are back to normal as a country.”