Tickets Prime Minister: Fans to return in October

[Saoirse]

Boris has just addressed plans for fans to return to stadia in his speech. "From October we intend to bring back audiences in stadia... in a Covid secure way subject to the successful outcome of pilots". Given the English FA announced their friendly against Wales in October yesterday and said they expected no fans, it sounds like they're talking about slightly after that date - potentially the fixture weekend beginning on the 17th of October, which would also be just in time for our European group stage campaign should we qualify.

(Tottenham could make a lot of sense for such a pilot too?)

 

[HildoSpur]

You have to wonder how this will work in reality

 

[Saoirse]

Pilots to begin in August - the Community Shield would make sense as one for football at that stage? Or even the FA Cup Final, which is on the 1st of August exactly

“From 1 August...we will pilot larger gatherings in venues like sports stadia with a view to a wider reopening in the autumn”

 

[JCRD]

I am presuming the season would start before October...

Personally none of that was convincing... But I think football fans do need to go back...

 

[Saoirse]

I am presuming the season would start before October...

Personally none of that was convincing... But I think football fans do need to go back...

Yep - September 12th for the Premier League restart. But the midweeks are UEFA slots for qualifying rounds, so that'll only be 3 PL matches before October and another 1 in early October. We might get 17 of our 19 home matches with at least some fans in the ground.

 

[PLTuck]

I'm all for this but have to wonder what they expect to be different in October than now in terms of the covid situation. If anything its precisely the wrong time of year to start opening mass gatherings as its getting towards flu season.

 

[C0YS]

I assume we are talking about half capacity stadiums, with compulsory masks (until in your seat). The UK's recovery is very slow, and October is in a long time. We would need the death numbers to be under 5 or so a day before being confident of making mass gatherings safe.

 

[thekneaf]

He's making it up as he goes along, I wouldn't get too excited about it

 

[Shadydan]

You have to wonder how this will work in reality

Probably will do 25% full stadiums or something and build up from there depending on the rate of infections.

 

[wrd]

Probably will do 25% full stadiums or something and build up from there depending on the rate of infections.

Be like how we opened the stadium initially I guess.

 

[Shadydan]

Be like how we opened the stadium initially I guess.

Yeah minus the killer virus.

 

[Gareth88]

Double talking clown cant believe anything out of his mouth

 

[Metalhead]

Boris has just addressed plans for fans to return to stadia in his speech. "From October we intend to bring back audiences in stadia... in a Covid secure way subject to the successful outcome of pilots". Given the English FA announced their friendly against Wales in October yesterday and said they expected no fans, it sounds like they're talking about slightly after that date - potentially the fixture weekend beginning on the 17th of October, which would also be just in time for our European group stage campaign should we qualify.

(Tottenham could make a lot of sense for such a pilot too?)

“Audiences” ha ha ha.

 

[Col_M]

“Audiences” ha ha ha.

Obviously taking input from the Baroness

 

[Trotter]

He's making it up as he goes along, I wouldn't get too excited about it

Not for this section of the forum

 

[thekneaf]

Not for this section of the forum

Umm, what?

 

[Trotter]

Umm, what?

This is not the politics section.
If you want to make statements about whether you think Polticians are making things up, go over there, leave this for actually discussing the potential impact to football and the spectators.

 

[thekneaf]

This is not the politics section.
If you want to make statements about whether you think Polticians are making things up, go over there, leave this for actually discussing the potential impact to football and the spectators.

Apologies, I mistook this for a forum for discussion. It wasn't me that started a thread about a political statement. It seemed like a odd fit.

It's not even party political to question the veracity of this statement. I just don't think we should get our hopes up.

And where people bring up politics I will engage, suggest you don't if you don't want to.

 

[Trotter]

Apologies, I mistook this for a forum for discussion. It wasn't me that started a thread about a political statement. It seemed like a odd fit.

It's not even party political to question the veracity of this statement. I just don't think we should get our hopes up.

And where people bring up politics I will engage, suggest you don't if you don't want to.

Apology accepted, although know you were being facetious but actually you should apologise to the board as a whole.
A thread was started to discuss the fact that sports, including football will hopefully soon be open for public consumption as announced today.
Of course it is party political to discuss the veracity of the statement.
Nobody brought politics into this thread apart from you and subsequently Gareth88 who I have also spam rated for the same reason.
Talk about politics till your heart is content by all means (people didn't by the way, only you did), but in the right forum, which is certainly not the Spurs Chat forum.

 

[thekneaf]

Apology accepted, although know you were being facetious but actually you should apologise to the board as a whole.
A thread was started to discuss the fact that sports, including football will hopefully soon be open for public consumption as announced today.
Of course it is party political to discuss the veracity of the statement.
Nobody brought politics into this thread apart from you and subsequently Gareth88 who I have also spam rated for the same reason.
Talk about politics till your heart is content by all means (people didn't by the way, only you did), but in the right forum, which is certainly not the Spurs Chat forum.

How is this not political, it's literally a statement made by a politician?

I will give my non political response then.

I would be very surprised if we were back in the stadium in essentially 3 months.

Briefings suggest that there will be a second wave, virulent I believe some guy said at 11am today, and this seems at odds with a return to bums on seats. I obviously want it to happen, I just think it's not credible.

That being said, as with it all, if there's a vaccine it changes everything.