They haven’t had a crowd like this all year here at Bolton Wanderers Football Club. It might only a be a few punters every few minutes but it’s several hundred every day and that’s more than the Trotters have enjoyed this season. There’s room for plenty more, too.
Because while Bolton might be leading the nation in cases of Covid-19 caused by the ‘Indian variant’, this town is also vaccinating the local population faster than you can say Nat Lofthouse.
If you want a Covid vaccination (it’s mainly the Pfizer jab hereabouts) and have some sort of reason, you are likely to get it. I meet 17-year-old Lauren who is not actually from Bolton but a student in Manchester.