Despite no sign of an end to the two-year civil war destroying Syria, there was a little sign of normality on Tuesday as the new football season got underway. Two thousand spectators, mostly people displaced by the conflict that was estimated by the United Nations on Tuesday to have claimed 70,000 lives, turned up at a stadium in Damascus to watch Al-Wathba from Homs play Al-Jazeera of Al-Hasakah.