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London Stadium to be divided into zones

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The London Stadium will be divided into three zones when West Ham season restarts on Saturday 20th June as the Premier League work towards agreeing on matchday protocols.

Clubs met on Thursday to discuss some of the logistics and West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady has revealed how stadiums will be split into red, amber and green zones.

Writing in her Sun column Brady revealed:

RED ZONE will be the most severely restricted area, including the pitch, the tunnel, technical areas, changing rooms will be limited to 105 people maximum, to include players, coaching staff, match officials and all the essential staff only.

And only those who have tested negative for Covid-19 in the past five days can enter this area.

We will be creating a Clinical Passport System for those who will need to have access to the Red Zone.

The AMBER ZONE will be restricted to the minimum number of staff required to meet contractual requirements for broadcasting, media and club staff.

And the GREEN ZONE is the stadium exterior, eg car parking.

In all areas, social distancing needs to be observed and a series of one-way systems and other procedures need to be incorporated to ensure that it is.

This includes in the dressing room (save for 15 minutes for the pre-match tactical talk by the manager) and the showers.

A new strict accreditation process will be developed, including an isolation room should someone unfortunately develop symptoms whilst within the stadium.

We also have to ensure players refrain from spitting and everything must be disinfected, including the corner flags and match balls.

There can be no sharing of drinks and no handshaking.

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