Nuetral grounds might be an idea outside of the PL, as I'm guessing once you get a certain way down it will actually save clubs money through not having to make half of them getting their failities up and running for the day...and the number of games/different venues does become a problem once you factor in all of the legue system.
For PL teams I just can't make any sense of it. You can't be sending people back to work, telling them to gather in parks, etc...then say you're worried about them specifically lingering outside a football ground. You also can't seriously claim the police can't keep an eye on 10 locations for a couple of hours each over the course of a weekend, when they've apparently had time to patrol around empty forest areas and send drones up looking for people in the fecking hills. Espeically not as the police funding for games largely comes from the clubs themselves, not the government. You'd just make it clear people shouldn't be there and then clear off anyone who turns up. It's not like you're going to get 40,000 fans marching up to the stadium.
I also don't get all the whining about player safety. If there is an adequate testing system in place there is virtually no risk. Anyone who does catch the virus wont have caught iit because they played against Arsenal at the weekend. Plus, some of us have had to go to work the whole time. Most of us have to cram into supermarkets every week. A lot of us are being "encouraged" to go back to work, right now, not in a month. It's not really a good look to hear about millionaire footballers being victimised because they might have to play a football game. I'm sur emost of them are actually quite desperate to play.
For PL teams I just can't make any sense of it. You can't be sending people back to work, telling them to gather in parks, etc...then say you're worried about them specifically lingering outside a football ground. You also can't seriously claim the police can't keep an eye on 10 locations for a couple of hours each over the course of a weekend, when they've apparently had time to patrol around empty forest areas and send drones up looking for people in the fecking hills. Espeically not as the police funding for games largely comes from the clubs themselves, not the government. You'd just make it clear people shouldn't be there and then clear off anyone who turns up. It's not like you're going to get 40,000 fans marching up to the stadium.
I also don't get all the whining about player safety. If there is an adequate testing system in place there is virtually no risk. Anyone who does catch the virus wont have caught iit because they played against Arsenal at the weekend. Plus, some of us have had to go to work the whole time. Most of us have to cram into supermarkets every week. A lot of us are being "encouraged" to go back to work, right now, not in a month. It's not really a good look to hear about millionaire footballers being victimised because they might have to play a football game. I'm sur emost of them are actually quite desperate to play.
