Boris Johnson announces football fans should be allowed back into stadiums by October

Seems a bit early to tell when fans will be allowed back in, especially as they are anticipating another wave around that time.

I can only assume it will be at 30-50% capacity.

Covered End J Block won't be the same for me.

You can just imagine the fixture list for next season: one of the first games after fans allowed back into grounds will be a trip to the Rusty Toolbox.

At the final whistle the local constabulary will announce that there's been a localised COVID outbreak in the away end and keep all the Charlton fans in lockdown for seven days, a new record for being trapped in that hell-hole.

Must be alright if Boris  says it is then.

If it is 50% of capacity, I wonder how they will work that out in terms of which season ticket holders can go to which games, and if you've paid for an expensive ticket but get moved to a cheaper area of the ground to enforce social distancing?

Who are you going to listen to?
Patrick Vallance says there are no grounds to change where we work and Chris Witty is uneasy about changes from current protocols
Football matches in October?  It's just crowd pleasing spin - a simple enough populist notion but far enough into the future to be hopelessly vapid. 
Boris says a lot of things
Most of them straight from despicable Dom's agenda
Some of them out of the dusty sheltered detached recesses of his overeducated noggin
Pay attention to Boris only to stay up to date on his version of reality
Where public health and important day to day real life stuff is concerned check the facts with any competent source then make up your own mind - Boris knows the square root of fuck all that's useful and cares even less.  He's a gob on a stick spouting bilge at the behest of a cynical corrupt elitist bunch of scum.

StigThundercock said:

Who are you going to listen to?
Patrick Vallance says there are no grounds to change where we work and Chris Witty is uneasy about changes from current protocols
Football matches in October?  It's just crowd pleasing spin - a simple enough populist notion but far enough into the future to be hopelessly vapid. 
Boris says a lot of things
Most of them straight from despicable Dom's agenda
Some of them out of the dusty sheltered detached recesses of his overeducated noggin
Pay attention to Boris only to stay up to date on his version of reality
Where public health and important day to day real life stuff is concerned check the facts with any competent source then make up your own mind - Boris knows the square root of fuck all that's useful and cares even less.  He's a gob on a stick spouting bilge at the behest of a cynical corrupt elitist bunch of scum.

No tory politician gives a shit about anyone apart from the people putting the money in their pocket. They will continue to lie and gaslight as there are people that still want to vote for them for some reason. They are all despicable bastards and this should not be forgotten come the next election. It most certainly will though

Ross said:

If it is 50% of capacity, I wonder how they will work that out in terms of which season ticket holders can go to which games, and if you've paid for an expensive ticket but get moved to a cheaper area of the ground to enforce social distancing?

Well thats a problem we won't have to worry about ! 

christmas.Leroy Ambrose said:

He said everything will be back to normal by Christmas. Just in time for the second wave then. Bloke's a muppet

He clearly stated it was a plan to be back to normal by Christmas.
Why twist the words?

Yes, as he says, a plan for normality.
Which bit of the word plan are you struggling with?
It's even in the title of your reference.

shine166 said:

Nice to have a normal Xmas to look forward to, before lockdown jan-march.. will make sure I ask for a ps5 this year and not holiday vouchers 

PS5 over the new Xbox.... controversial!

Bit like the Waggy v Green argument!

MrWalker said:

Yes, as he says, a plan for normality.
Which bit of the word plan are you struggling with?
It's even in the title of your reference.

You're being deliberately disingenuous, wilfully obtuse or simply dense. Since I don't believe the latter, it's one of the others, so stop it. 

I pointed out the difference in the semantics in my post above. Simply put - he is not suggesting that we have a plan for normality by Christmas, but that the plan he is putting in place will bring normality (or a 'significant amount' of normality, whatever that means) by Christmas.

This isn't Chizz you're dealing with FFS - I'm not in the habit of just engaging in pointless debates. 

Fanny Fanackapan said:

I'm making a wild prediction that the club will email all current season ticket holders now to advise that if  they want to secure their place in  limited attendance matches come the restart, they need to renew ASAP....

If I remember correctly, the Early Bird prices end next week ? 

31st that deal finishes, so we could find ourselves relegated next week and prices going up the week after lol. A half season ticket seems a good option atm, at this rate youl get use out of it until March!

Not exactly going to rush and buy a St on that man's view... 

This will have dire consequences, as seen in the USA already, A problem for sport will also be the local lock downs when viral out breaks occur in a town or city, How do you get the season done when games will be postponed at the last moment and players of a team in such a place will not be allowed to travel.