Football league clubs will face a lopsided schedule next season following the Government’s announcement yesterday that fans will not be permitted to attend matches until october at the earliest. and there is the resultant danger of burnout and injury from fixture congestion towards the end of the campaign. the EFl board are currently consulting clubs over whether to start the 2020-21 season on august 29 or September 12, the date on which the Premier league will resume. Either way the fixture list will see significantly more matches played after Christmas in an attempt to maximise revenue from gate receipts. Clubs had been lobbying the Government for spectators to be admitted to games in September so the announcement of an october return is a blow, particularly given crowds are likely to be limited to 25 per cent of capacity due to the ongoing requirement for social distancing. It is hoped that bigger crowds will be permitted next year, which is why more than half the games will take place after Christmas.
They will have changed their minds on Monday...or make Football clubs responsible. They will have to make sure no-one gets Covid at their games or some garbled rubbish.
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SAVE GAMES FOR FANS’ RETURN
Daily Mail 18 Jul 2020
Football league clubs will face a lopsided schedule next season following the Government’s announcement yesterday that fans will not be permitted to attend matches until october at the earliest. and there is the resultant danger of burnout and injury from fixture congestion towards the end of the campaign. the EFl board are currently consulting clubs over whether to start the 2020-21 season on august 29 or September 12, the date on which the Premier league will resume. Either way the fixture list will see significantly more matches played after Christmas in an attempt to maximise revenue from gate receipts. Clubs had been lobbying the Government for spectators to be admitted to games in September so the announcement of an october return is a blow, particularly given crowds are likely to be limited to 25 per cent of capacity due to the ongoing requirement for social distancing. It is hoped that bigger crowds will be permitted next year, which is why more than half the games will take place after Christmas.
They will have changed their minds on Monday...or make Football clubs responsible. They will have to make sure no-one gets Covid at their games or some garbled rubbish.