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Fanzones are something sports in US have been doing for sometime.
Some PL clubs have started to embrace it and as has been noted other sports including rugby.
F1 Grand Prix is really the benchmark. They turn each race into a three day event akin to a festival.
I'm not advocating anything to grand but there's lots the club could do on a budget.

 

Agree, has to be outsourced to limit wastage re food, beer etc..

 

@Rogered Tart hinted at it in this thread but the bulls match day events were second to none, I was still a kid at the time but match days had me completely hooked. If City can replicate a tiny bit of that atmosphere it's a win.

 

Imagine the size of the crowd v Bolton in a few weeks time !

 

From having it broken in to and stereo etc stolen as has happened round the ground at times, Oh and safe from riff raff trying to park in your spot or steal your car

 

Was it not on Sky too..?

 

I think realistically, in order to ensure everyone is as safe as they can be from Coronavirus variants, it's best to keep stadiums shut and everyone can continue to watch from home in a Covid-secure environment.

The club can and will still earn a considerably amount of money from i-Follow.

 

They will not keep stadia empty again, i'm guessing a reduced capacity to begin with then a gradual increase as the season goes on.

 

Until someone tells me that the ‘Indian variant’ can cause serious illness in under 30’s or fully vaccinated people then I refuse to take it seriously.
‘In the interests of fairness’ doesn’t matter.

 

They will have been vaccinated by the start of the season. Case numbers up, deaths down. The Indian variant "scare" is just that.

 

Sorry but I disagree.

 

Because the

Because the facts, rather than the Internet rhetoric, suggest that it is no more deadly in terms of deaths than the predominant Kent strain, and the facts also suggest that the vaccine is equally effective on it. Yes its spreading, but its only causing hospitalizations in the unvaccinated. Therefore it is no more dangerous than any other strain. Unlike you, I'm not buying the left wing media panic

 

It has to happen, we can't afford for it not to do. I aint paying for a season ticket if there is no guarantee of live football. I've done it once this season for me and my lad but not again.

 

I hope it happens mate and I too won't pay for Ifollow again but I am not banking on it happening.

The government are covering their backs. Not promising theses things will happen and saying four things need to happen before certain things can open up.

If I am Ryan Sparks I am taking it with a pinch of salt knowing how much the club spent to become covid secure in the first place and then I would be putting season ticket sells in June if everything is fine.

 

They're counting on four things.

No longer is it getting the infection rate down. It's that and three other things.

I've no confidence at all at this moment because its been u turn after u turn and things pulled away all the time. Lockdown after lockdown.

Brave person if you are confident these things will happen near the government timeframe.

 

Problem is Park for the football clubs to be able to plan financially we can't keep having conditional dates. By the start of the upcoming season there should be enough vaccinated and the figure should be low enough to allow some form of normality. Yes, there has to be vigilant processes in place such as the usual handwashing faciities but we cannot allow businesses to restart again only for them to shut down again as some nutty professor starts hogging the limelight.