Bad For Players, Worse For The Fans

Usually about this time the Football managers begin utterances around how many games their teams are to play over the Festive period and it is even worse this year because not only do they have a packed fixture schedule, but many squads are depleted by Coronavirus and the Premier League is standing firm that if there are 13 fit players available, then the games must be played.
I do have some sympathy with strains the amount of games in such a short period of time puts on the teams for the likes of the managers like Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp, Aston Villa's Stephen Gerrard, Arsenal's Mikel Arteta and Chelsea's Thomas Tuchel who have all come out to say the schedule is too harsh made worse by the Covid situation amongst the players, but none of them have questioned the wisdom of allowing tens of thousands of supporters into a ground during these times.
Last night 59,027 fans packed into The Emirates to watch Arsenal beat Sunderland in the Caraboa Cup Quarter Final and tonight there are three more games tonight at Brentford which holds 18,000, Liverpool with a capacity of 53,390 and Tottenham 62,850 which means potentially 134,000 fans sat shoulder to shoulder for two hours.
As the Government seem to afraid of their own MP's to do anything this side of Christmas, that is a lot of people who could be taking something a little bit extra home for their family this Christmas so while i feel sorry for the footballers, my real sympathy goes to the fans paying £60 to get themselves into a situation which screams danger while the highly contagious Omicron is circling.