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Everything from ball boys to lighting and sound people.

I cant pretend to know how many people it would take to run a football match. It seems a fair amount, but I'm just guessing really.

I would say though I'm assuming the majority would be well spread out mind you and hopefully would have appropriate ppe
 
No, football with TV coverage. It's been estimated that at the average PL game it would need between 250 and 300 people to be present.
well i'm sure if required they could easily use less but so what if it does considering some of the factories / warehouse still in operation with very large numbers of people in them . Football is a business same as all others .
 
No, football with TV coverage. It's been estimated that at the average PL game it would need between 250 and 300 people to be present.

Even if all 300 people were on the pitch they'd have 24 square metres each so no problem for distancing
 
Tory government boasting about shoplifting being down. Meanwhile in the real world...

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I do wonder if there will be any enquiry once it's done, or will it be brushed under the carpet and talked away as they tried there best
 
A couple of things I saw over the weekend: first - the pop-up hospital in Birmingham has had no patients since it was opened nearly two weeks ago and second - interesting interview with Swedish virologist who firmly believes that once you have protected the vulnerable, the virus should be allowed to play itself out ie. herd immunity.