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Barney Ronay worth reading on sport with reduced crowds 09:28 - Sep 5 with 711 views

I think he’s right, it’s just not going to work as planned and won’t be worth going to. Not sure there’s an easy solution though in the continued absence of our “world beating” track and trace programme.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/05/reduced-crowds-at-sport-feel-like-

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Barney Ronay worth reading on sport with reduced crowds on 09:49 - Sep 5 with 648 views

Marshalls_Mullet

Everyone knows that it's not perfect, but it's a means to an end.

There's no way that sport would just go straight back at full capacity, so he needs to see this exercise for what it is.

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Barney Ronay worth reading on sport with reduced crowds on 09:55 - Sep 5 with 621 views

J2BLUE

A lot of his ideas for rules needed are being implemented at Portman Road.

Sport will take a few wrong turns before finding what works as it always does. It will be fine.

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Barney Ronay worth reading on sport with reduced crowds on 10:09 - Sep 5 with 604 views

Ace_High1

Barney Ronay worth reading on sport with reduced crowds on 09:55 - Sep 5 by J2BLUE
A lot of his ideas for rules needed are being implemented at Portman Road. Sport will take a few wrong turns before finding what works as it always does. It will be fine.

But who is going to want to go?

You go to sport to see an event, to be part of the day/atmosphere. All games will be like friendlies with hardly any crowd in and then factor in all the extra hassle and rules - why bother?

Barney Ronay worth reading on sport with reduced crowds on 11:06 - Sep 5 with 546 views

LankHenners

Yeah he's basically right but at the same time I'm not really sure what people expected, especially for a first attempt at getting people back in stadia. As you say though, this sort of thing would be a lot easier and more efficient to manage if there was a proper system in place.

Starting to get people gathering in larger numbers as we head into winter does seem like a bit of a recipe for disaster which will undo all the half-@rsed work that the country has been bundling through for the past few months.

However, as Ronay alludes to, there's definitely a balance to be struck between taking things seriously and safely, and the whole thing having a detrimental effect on people's mental health, hence the need to have some sort of 'normality' back. As above, an inept government doesn't help to find that balance comfortably.

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Barney Ronay worth reading on sport with reduced crowds on 11:29 - Sep 5 with 518 views

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And when ‘Operation moonshot’ delivers weekly mandatory saliva testing for all then some ppl will inevitably refuse because they ‘don’t want to government getting their DNA’.

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