KCOM situation is ‘a nonsense’

I NOTICE a small number of Hull City fans were allowed into the KCOM Stadium on Saturday to watch the game against Peterborough, writes Peter Swan.

No, not in the arena itself, but in the Kingston hospitality suite. While the game was being played live outside, the punters were in an enclosed room watching the live internet feed on a big screen.

Am I the only one that thinks that’s a load of nonsense, absolute nonsense?

It’s safer for fans to go out and sit in the fresh air, if they’re going to allow fans in the stadium.

The club have exploited a loophole, but for me, there should not be any wriggle room. Either fans can come into the stadium to watch the match or they can’t.

To have them sat in a hospitality suite with the curtains closed, watching on the television while the game’s played live outside is just madness, absolute madness, and the sooner this gets resolved the better.

Given where City are, and taking recent average attendances into account, six or seven thousand would be realistic at the moment and you could quite easily do that inside the KCOM, you could have fans spread out and do it safely with access into the stadium being controlled.

I’ve watched the NRL final this weekend and there were 40,000 fans inside an 80,000 seat arena and it was absolutely fine, so what’s the problem, and then I hear of fans watching games live in the cinema because the gates of the ground are closed.

I mean, come on, it’s absolute nonsense, it really is.

The government have got it wrong, they have - it makes a mockery of the whole situation.