Arsenal yesterday announced details of season tickets and how reduced capacity games are going to work. It is pretty complicated, involving ballots and a new Covid Code of Conduct, plus lots of new terms and conditions. The plan is to allow some fans back into the stadium from October 3rd, for our home game against Sheffield United. I wonder what it's going to be like. Football without supporters in the stadium is a obviously very different thing. It's missing something fundamental. I have not been able to watch games with the fake crowd sounds – where possible I always choose the ‘natural' option. To me, the artifice of the engineered soundtrack just doesn't work, it takes away...
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