The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) looks set to host the world’s biggest sports crowd since the start of the pandemic, with up to 75,000 footy fans allowed into the stadium from this Thursday. The move comes just hours after the Australian Football League (AFL) conceded that crowd numbers for round two between Carlton and Collingwood this Thursday would remain at 50 percent (or 50,000 spectators), under the Victorian government’s COVIDsafe guidelines. But on Tuesday, the Victorian government announced an easing of the state’s COVID restrictions that included a 25 percent crowd increase to Thursday’s game. “That’s a big moment in this country, and to increase that further this weekend with a couple of really big games starting this Thursday night will be a wonderful achievement for the people of Melbourne and more broadly for this country,” AFL fixture boss Travis Auld said. Auld added that having the world’s biggest crowd …