What if fans choose not to go back when stadiums reopen, in protest?

[SirAnderson]

Read this article from the guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ower-staying-away-grounds-reopen-fa-cup-final

While I don't think it would ever happen, it does ask an important question. Fans have more power than they realize, but just won't get to the point where it is used for making the game better.

For example, an extract from end of the article:

Imagine a scenario where they mobilised and decided enough is enough. One in which, upon being welcomed back into their vast and long-vacant enormo-domes in the coming months, they chose instead to stay away subject to a list of not entirely unreasonable demands being met.
Much cheaper tickets. No more paywalls, or at the very least a significant reduction in TV subscriptions, which would then be capped. An end to club gouging, the disturbing recent proliferation of gambling advertising and the rescheduling of matches for the benefit of armchair viewers at the expense of matchgoing fans. A guaranteed and substantial trickle-down redistribution of wealth from the top of the game to grassroots that, if needs be, comes out of the pockets of players, agents and owners who earn more money than any one person could possibly need. And they’re just a few off the top of the collective head for starters.

What's your thoughts? Specifically match going fans. Some may be happy with their club but would they do it if it could bring about meaningful change to the beautiful game?

While it probably would never happened, but for discussion sake, what changes do you think could be made if something like this happened?

 

[SuperiorXI]

Not enough people will do it and clubs make too much money aside from match day revenue to care about this.

 

[sewey89]

It'll never ever happen, but what this pandemic should've hopefully showed clubs is that they can survive without matchday fans, so why not lower the prices.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

It'll never happen... as with everything else, as soon as something is open then people flock to it.

 

[LoneStar]

Yeah never going to happen, especially in the PL. If one person doesn’t go, there are two people waiting for the ticket.

 

[United58]

It'll never ever happen, but what this pandemic should've hopefully showed clubs is that they can survive without matchday fans, so why not lower the prices.

The big clubs can, but smaller clubs certainly struggle without it - even Wigan went into adminstration.

Here in Ireland, most clubs left all their staff go, including players

 

[Solius]

If they opened up a stadium and said 'free hotdogs but also rife with coronavirus' it would sell out.

 

[Red_toad]

If clubs are forced to choose between match day fans and tv revenue, then there’s only 1 winner. TV revenue is far more financially beneficial to clubs.

 

[Dancfc]

It wouldn't happen, many people were supposedly going to refuse to watch football's restart out of some sort of moral protest and I've not come across one who stuck to that vow.

 

[Bastian]

If they opened up a stadium and said 'free hotdogs but also rife with coronavirus' it would sell out.

 

[Tiber]

United fans can't even all unite over the clubs ownership, but they are calling on fans of all clubs to join some crusade against Sky prices and Ladbrokes Adverts? Good luck.