Football and the Coronavirus

So no professional clubs are located in tier 1 and many are in tier 3, meaning just a handful of clubs will have supporters and they'll be capped at 2k.
 
Rikmeister said:
Isn't it 4K or 50% of capacity?
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4k is only for tier 1 however no clubs are located in tier 1.

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Tier 2 clubs - 2k supporters: Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, West Ham, Southampton, Brighton, Palace & Fulham.
Tier 3 clubs - 0 supporters: Man Utd, Man City, Newcastle, Leicester, West Brom, Villa, Wolves, Leeds, Sheffield Utd and Burnley.
 
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Shamikebab said:
So some clubs are getting home fans and some aren't....yes that seems very fair. This season is a write-off.
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As omnom says, the only way it's perfectly fair would be if all remaining games are played behind closed doors and with the prospect of restrictions easing more and more, hopefully with full crowds before the end of the season, no club is agreeing to that and writing off £m's in matchday revenue.

The tiers are going to be reviewed every couple of weeks if I'm not mistaken and hopefully it won't be long before more regions move into tier 2 and 1. I'm not sure 1-2 games where a few clubs have had 2k supporters is going to make a noticeable difference either.
 
I'm not too sure about that. I'm sure the government said life won't get back to some degree of normality until after Easter so I'm expecting more counties to enter tier 3 rather than drop to tier 1, if not in December then early next year.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
I'm not too sure about that. I'm sure the government said life won't get back to some degree of normality until after Easter so I'm expecting more counties to enter tier 3 rather than drop to tier 1, if not in December then early next year.
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The virus is expected to hit harder in the cold weather, so expect it to get worse before it gets better. Anything lke normality depends on the success of the vaccine and its role out.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
I'm not too sure about that. I'm sure the government said life won't get back to some degree of normality until after Easter so I'm expecting more counties to enter tier 3 rather than drop to tier 1, if not in December then early next year.
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I guess it will depend on how seriously people follow the restrictions. If you take the Liverpool region as an example, cases have dropped dramatically over the last month or so, since they went into tier 3. The role out of mass testing obviously helped but hopefully more of that is to come in other areas too.

Hopefully this 2-4k cap is just a first step towards supporters returning and this will be ramped up in the coming months, at least at the highest level. Nobody can tell me that 10k socially distanced supporters in a 40k stadium, even in tier 3, is more of a risk than 6 people from different homes sitting next to each other at a restaurant in tier 1
 
Yeah, the whole thing's been poorly thought out.

In two weeks we could have Man United being unable to host a single spectator in 74,000 seat stadium, due to social distancing guidelines, yet Bournemouth, if they were to drop down to Tier 1, could have a 36% full stadium :o
 
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Probably, the goverment do love some double standards.
I heard it from some podcast though talking about the idea of it being unfair for 1 team to have fans etc.

Edit. quick google came up saying fans can sing but not hug.
Edit 2, That google result was The Sun so probably codswallop.
 
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Flik007 said:
Probably, the goverment do love some double standards.
I heard it from some podcast though talking about the idea of it being unfair for 1 team to have fans etc.

Edit. quick google came up saying fans can sing but not hug.
Edit 2, That google result was The Sun so probably codswallop.
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The "Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds" is probably more reliable than The Sun. There's only 2 references to singing that I can see:

Persistent standing
At grounds where persistent standing is a problem, management should be aware of the added risks of spectators moving freely within the seating rows and therefore potentially breaching social distancing. If spectators also sing or shout from a standing position in a seated area there may in addition be a higher risk of projecting respiratory droplets and aerosols that have the potential to spread the virus to those in the vicinity.


Figure SG02 7Sample Spectators’ Code of Conduct
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Take extreme care when shouting, singing or celebrating

https://sgsa.org.uk/wp-content/uplo...g-for-Social-Distancing-at-Sports-Grounds.pdf
 
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