Fan blog: £250m bailout package for EFL can't come soon enough as Sunderland and clubs face having no fans inside stadiums
Home comforts would return for the Black Cats' match against Blackpool on October 10th, albeit only around 11,000 to 12,000 Sunderland supporters would be able to socially distance themselves inside of the Stadium of Light.
The club had already began arranging the bubbles for supporters, and fans had chosen between a pro-rata refund or a streaming pass, on the basis that they would be allowed back into the Stadium of Light in October.
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Hide AdThis wasn't just the Black Cats who had started planning how supporters returning to football would look like, although clubs had different approaches, all of them would have had the same attitude towards the news on Tuesday that those plans were to be postponed.
Then, on Saturday, the EFL chairman explained that it was possible fans wouldn't be able to return until March at the earliest.
Every club and supporter is aware of the dangers that COVID-19 has brought over the past six months, but for some lower league clubs, the postponement of fans back at football could be fatal.
Fleetwood manager, Joey Barton, labelled the block on fans as an ‘impending armageddon’, while even lower down the football pyramid, the impacts will be felt.
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Hide AdThe impact for some clubs won't just be because of the lack of fans; the lack of commercial income, such as hospitality and advertising, will be absolutely devastating for some lower-leagues clubs, with the Premier League and the EFL thinking about a £250 million bail-out package.
Despite everyone's frustrations that they will not be able to back at football stadiums to see their side in the next couple of weeks, let's hope that this won't affect the Lads.
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