With little fanfare Amazon has added seven years of gloriously incongruous Masters Football highlights to its online offering

“It’s been some year for the city of Manchester,” trills the narrator, and my mind immediately performs an involuntary scroll through headlines about coronavirus, care homes and Nightingale hospitals, about lockdowns, tiered restrictions and demands for assistance from mayors and footballers. But then it remembers that this programme comes from another reality where none of these things has happened, being as it is the first sentence of the 2011 Masters Football Grand Finals highlights, new to Amazon Prime.

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