Today's News: Potential Impact On Forthcoming City Matches

My view is that should extend to all Sporting Events, not just football, and indeed all ‘Entertainment Venues’ (as designated by Local Authority Legislation).

One Off, all Off.

I am sure several on here would agree that a ‘Mark of Respect” should not be limited to Football!

 

As I’ve said it almost certainly went down to grassroots because of the limited time to make a level by level. Take the National league, you go from Wrexham who get nearly 10k a match down to Boreham wood who get just over 1k. In the National League North and South you have Hereford and Dulwich who get over 2K but Cruzon and Oxford around 300. While the step below that the Northern Premier - Premier has attendances similar to National League North/South but the other 3 leagues have just a single team break 1k and the rest are between 800 and 120. Deciding what leagues need policing and if they do what’s a viable level isn’t something you can decide in less than a day so a blanket postponement just makes more sense.

If it had been about a week I suspect we would have seen some lower level football allowed but don’t feel either then EFL or PL would be allowed (I don’t expect the/weds EFL games to go ahead). With your games I would guess both Mansfield and Tranmere would be borderline (and you take more than most at this level to away games I believe). The home game on Saturday you would imagine is off just because 17k is more than all but league, 12 Championship teams and 2 Premier League ones then you will surely be over then viable amount of policing needed

 

Again though they had limited time to make the decision on where the cutoff comes. And seeing as by all accounts in the EFL meeting one of the clubs started trying to arrange friendlies before being forbidden that without a blanket ban any rushed attempt to allow some under a certain level would have tried to be abused by some. I would imagine it needs time for discussions between the FA, the Leagues and the police so it could be more targeted

 

Again, they didn't have the time to do it on a match-by-match basis. Queensbury Celtic u7 to u16 might be fine but it's a different kettle of fish to say Man Utd u7s to u16. Maybe some of those age groups even at PL clubs might still be fine but you can just go u16's are fine when there is a difference between the levels. You also have to ensure it cant be abused which again they didn't have time to work that out

 

No, they haven't. All you have is Simon Stone in the Athletic saying

That's not an official announcement and the policing/security get out is pretty big