Why can only efl clubs trial this 1000 fans thing, why not prem league clubs?
I think - and I stand to be corrected on this - that the PL pushed back on the government regarding the limit of 1,000 spectators as this would be a loss-making exercise, wouldn't be a true test of what crowd size can be safely handled, and therefore pointless.
I'm sure the PL themselves sent a letter to the government about this and scrapped test events with 1k fans, requesting they were allowed to do test events with much larger numbers as they felt they were able to do this safely.