The risk is minimal is it? Okay let’s play a fantasy game...
We’re allowed a full stadium, the stadium is full every game and it is your choice to go, but you must attend all home games.
EVERY home game over the season Huge Ferret announces 14 seat numbers (just like they have done occasionally when someone out of the family stand usually wins) only this time it really is random. The occupiers of those seats have to go down to the pitch, young, old, disabled, fit; it doesn’t matter, but you only have to play the game once. You are led to the centre circle and stand approx. 4 metres apart. In the centre is a maladjusted cyborg gunslinger (Yul Brynner in Westworld). On the whistle you are allowed to move/ run away. The gunslinger starts firing at the 14 people and doesn’t stop until 2 are killed.
Some are injured and may be maimed for life, some don’t get injured, but 2 always get killed, every home game. Your chances of survival are better the quicker and more agile you are, but the chances of you being one of the 14 selected remain almost the same for each one of the 19 games.
There are 14 times you could be selected each game, 266 (278 predicted cases) chances over the season and of these 14 people 2 will end up dead, 38 (34 predicted deaths) over the season.
This game is based on the number of people in the UK affected and killed by COVID-19 in the 1st 8 months of 2020, the number of deaths from COVID-19, the league season having 19 home games and the Etihad holding 55,000 people each game.
So now, do you think you will not be one of the 278 people that will catch the virus over the season (~14 each match). Do you think that you are strong enough once you’ve caught it to recover considering that we don’t know future consequences of being infected or do you think that being older or with an underlying health condition you are going to be one of the 2 we’ll be paying tribute to at the next match?
For me, I’m recovering from major surgery and have 2 other underlying health conditions, so it’s a risk averse choice, I don’t want ‘Carver, shot by A gunslinger 2020-21’ on the video screen and won’t be going. However, I’ve still got that niggle ‘but what about the Derby, dippers and missing a random 10 goal haul.
Just back from Poland where I went to 3 games. They're allowing 50% of capacity. Face mask required when you're going in and in the concourse, but not required in your seat.
The advantage they had was that - at least at the places I went (Gdansk and Poznan), they average below 50% of capacity, so didn't have the "who gets a ticket" problem.
The ultras sections didn't seem to be complying with social distancing at times, but I suppose their balaclavas were the original face coverings.
To be honest (aside from the ultras sections), I felt far better about being sat in an open air arena, with seats between me and other people than I do when I'm in a bar, restaurant, gym, or shop over here.
Considering another trip there for the 1st weekend of October around Krakow/Wroclaw. We're away to Leeds but don't think we'll be able to go.Sounds a great trip. Mirrors mine in July.
Think if we design a stadium using a bar or beach as a template we should be fine with 100% capacity games.
Thinking of going Poland again Sept as struggling elsewhere and its a great place!
I honestly think it will be at least a year until football fans are properly let in.
This government are no friends of the fans and have their own stereotypical view of us.
Those seat-based competitions are always won by someone in the Family Stand anyway so most of us would be fine...The risk is minimal is it? Okay let’s play a fantasy game...
We’re allowed a full stadium, the stadium is full every game and it is your choice to go, but you must attend all home games.
EVERY home game over the season Huge Ferret announces 14 seat numbers (just like they have done occasionally when someone out of the family stand usually wins) only this time it really is random. The occupiers of those seats have to go down to the pitch, young, old, disabled, fit; it doesn’t matter, but you only have to play the game once. You are led to the centre circle and stand approx. 4 metres apart. In the centre is a maladjusted cyborg gunslinger (Yul Brynner in Westworld). On the whistle you are allowed to move/ run away. The gunslinger starts firing at the 14 people and doesn’t stop until 2 are killed.
Some are injured and may be maimed for life, some don’t get injured, but 2 always get killed, every home game. Your chances of survival are better the quicker and more agile you are, but the chances of you being one of the 14 selected remain almost the same for each one of the 19 games.
There are 14 times you could be selected each game, 266 (278 predicted cases) chances over the season and of these 14 people 2 will end up dead, 38 (34 predicted deaths) over the season.
This game is based on the number of people in the UK affected and killed by COVID-19 in the 1st 8 months of 2020, the number of deaths from COVID-19, the league season having 19 home games and the Etihad holding 55,000 people each game.
So now, do you think you will not be one of the 278 people that will catch the virus over the season (~14 each match). Do you think that you are strong enough once you’ve caught it to recover considering that we don’t know future consequences of being infected or do you think that being older or with an underlying health condition you are going to be one of the 2 we’ll be paying tribute to at the next match?
For me, I’m recovering from major surgery and have 2 other underlying health conditions, so it’s a risk averse choice, I don’t want ‘Carver, shot by A gunslinger 2020-21’ on the video screen and won’t be going. However, I’ve still got that niggle ‘but what about the Derby, dippers and missing a random 10 goal haul.
Just back from Poland where I went to 3 games. They're allowing 50% of capacity. Face mask required when you're going in and in the concourse, but not required in your seat.
The advantage they had was that - at least at the places I went (Gdansk and Poznan), they average below 50% of capacity, so didn't have the "who gets a ticket" problem.
The ultras sections didn't seem to be complying with social distancing at times, but I suppose their balaclavas were the original face coverings.
To be honest (aside from the ultras sections), I felt far better about being sat in an open air arena, with seats between me and other people than I do when I'm in a bar, restaurant, gym, or shop over here.