Head scratcher as cinema football gets go ahead
It’s not the job of this site to get into politics but in circumstances such as those you begin to wonder – not for the first time since the virus hit – exactly what’s what.
Various cinema chains have been so badly hit by the present situation they are closing down as is the case where I live.
Yet the Vue group have decided to show the Irons v Man City at £6.99 in their various movie houses.
Oh, and by the way none of the proceeds – minimal in football terms of course – will go into either West Ham or City’s bank accounts. Some private entrepreneur will be the beneficiary.
No doubt the cinema admin staff will claim the audience will be strictly social distanced and I’m sure that will be the case yet when football’s authorities offered the same sort of deal to government it went down like a lead balloon.
Whatever view one may feel on whether fans should be allowed back into stadiums, the fact remains that this situation doesn’t make much sense.
Social distancing can be applied in both situations so it would be nice to get an explanation from government or those involved in the enterprise on why cinema football is okay but stadium football isn’t.
Like much else we are seeing and hearing from on high about how we to beat the virus, this doesn’t make a lot of sense.