1) I didn't suggest anything about supermarkets. Supermarkets are essential, they have more space to be able to effectively socially distance, they pay their staff quite well. I don't think what I said about Mcd's is waffle. it's based on first hand experience of seeing how it works. Do you think a tightly congested kitchen area with multiple surfaces and employees (who aren't going to be tested) touching a number of items, their faces and surfaces in close proximity for between 12-18 hours a day is less likely to be a breeding ground for the virus then football with the measures they’re putting in place?
If your answer is yes then stop reading from here.....
It doesn’t matter how many lines McDonalds draw on their shop floors, by the nature of the work in McDonald’s, staff will break distancing and hygienic measures multiple times through their shift. They’re only human, they’re not robots.
You can make your qualms about believing football have different rules to it, I disagree but for arguments sake even if youre right what choice do they have? Until a vaccine this is how it would be. You literally cannot play football and not make contact with other players.
2) nobody actually knows the man power required for this. What I would say is it’s not gonna be a simple case of football taking busy nurses from covid wards or testing centres as seems to be the implication. We have no idea what pool their staff are coming from, it may not even be NHS employees. There is a massive world of private medical companies and staff outside the NHS (many of which aren’t currently working). Shortage of PPE? Really? I would think by this stage, worldwide we have enough PPE to last us some time.
And if there are still places not getting them then the issue lies at the fault of the government, not the football.
3) Well if we want to go deep into football, we can do that. Football have staff who aren’t footballers who will be attending these games, these people require wages. In order for the PL to financially secure the long term futures of EFL clubs who don’t get tv money and won’t be getting gate receipts they need more money. EFL clubs have to pay their players, at below Championship level, players really aren’t that wealthy and I’m sure nobody wants these community clubs being put out of business.
People like to make out as if football is just 22 multimillionaire PL players kicking a ball about but there is much more to it and as a football fan you should know that. But to be fair I’ve seen people on this forum state that the FA and league cup should be cancelled (before corona outbreak) which tells me these people have little understanding of the little man in football.
PL appears to be doing nothing to help out the NHS?
https://www.premierleague.com/news/1659199
Please read.... I’ve seen that statement batted about a lot. I think it’s really poor form.
