Leothebear wrote:
What I struggle to see is who'd want to watch crowdless football on TV?
At this moment in time, I think I'd watch a game on one of those animated flick-books if someone gave me the chance...
Joking aside, I think you've got a good point, and we've all experienced those matches where the lack of crowds severely affects both the atmosphere of the game, and which also of course always seems to have a negative rub-off onto any players involved in those games, so it is likely to be a very strange situation, even if they are actually able to get the games off the ground even in that strictly limited capacity.
I suspect that they'll look to make wide and simultaneous use of the many TV football pundits who are currently sat around with nothing to commentate on, and hopefully create as good an 'in-game' situation as possible, given the clearly unfortunate circumstances, and it wouldn't surprise me to see some sort of 'socially-distanced' studio, or even perhaps on-line, live vocal audience set-up, to maybe at least give
some ongoing and live background atmosphere to the matches.
If that were to be made possible, I'd imagine Joe-Public not to be allowed anywhere near a live microphone, but perhaps there might be options for groups of pundits and commentators to provide something useful and enjoyable for each game, and it's clear that this must be an area that's already been discussed at length, given it's huge implications for the potential enjoyment of such games...
I suppose we should hope to just trust the broadcasters here - this is the sort of issue that they're being paid to work out....
Cheers,
Itsallaguess