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The cabinet will report at a special press conference on Monday evening at 7 p.m. that no more public is allowed in professional football, it claims. Algemeen Dagblad. According to the NOS fans are no longer welcome at all sporting events for at least the next three weeks; not in professional competitions and not in amateur competitions. This possible decision by the cabinet is met with a lot of resistance. On social media, people wonder why politics is intervening in (professional) football right now.
The behavior of football fans around the matches Feyenoord – FC Twente and Willem II – Rangers FC was heavily criticized. Several politicians warned ahead of the weekend that fans should behave. In the past weekend, the supporters behaved well in the various stadiums, so it was expected that the cabinet would stop at a warning. However, it now seems that the public is still banned from sporting events.
AD: Cabinet will ban the public at football
The cabinet is reportedly going to intervene hard and ban fans from sporting events.
“Football is apparently screwed again by this cabinet”, complains Jeroen Kapteijns, sports journalist of The Telegraph, on Twitter. “Despite all the efforts that have been made to ensure that the matches are corona-proof, which has also been achieved in the vast majority of cases. This has all the appearance of symbolic politics. , that keep your distance and the outside air minimize the chances of contamination. ” Rik Elfrink, journalist of the Eindhovens Dagblad, speaks of a huge blow to football. “PSV wanted to scale up to nine thousand spectators on Sunday. It has all been for nothing. (….) A huge blow for the sector and a damper for supporters.”
Also Reon Boeringa from Football International does not understand. “Dozens of duels go smoothly, the audience behaves (except that one percent) neatly. And most importantly: there is not a single infection chain that can be traced back to a stadium visit. Symbol policy with potentially disastrous consequences. What you get in the bargain from the audience Keeping out of stadiums is the exact opposite of what you want: clandestine gatherings that you don’t supervise. So you go from a controllable situation outside to an uncontrollable situation inside. ”
In recent weeks, the government has been confronted with a rapid increase in the number of infections. There are currently 660 corona patients in Dutch hospitals, 142 of which are in intensive care. The number of infections increased by 2,914 in the past 24 hours.