I was in the North stand (Chicken Run
) on Tuesday evening.
As creatures of habit we stood in out normal place, opposite the tunnel.
At kick off the area where the KLTFC Choir stand was clearly going against social distancing guidelines. Now whilst I have some sympathy for the stewards and club officials (it must be like trying to heard cats with any fans, let alone us lot) they should have known what would inevitably happen and made some plans to mitigate against it. Segregation of each area and limits on the amount of people in each are a good idea but need to be controlled by the stewards starting from when the gates are opened, not from half time, and this needs to be clearly communicated to people when they enter the ground.
As a business the club has a duty of care to anyone who enters the ground, so all of the above should have been know about and planned for in some form of procedure or crowd control policy. If this was subcontracted out to an events management company then they would have to provide this documentation to the club. It seems that a link in the chain has broken somewhere and this either hasn't happened or wasn't actioned.
Either way, whilst I acknowledge that the KLTFC Choir were in the wrong, they shouldn't have been allowed to get into that situation in the first place.