I can see the season finishing behind closed doors..I would accept that right now.
Would you expect, bearing in mind the position we’re in, for thousands of fans to turn out at the stadium. I’d hope/expect not but that is a potential fear
No I don't think that will happen now - or at least, nowhere anywhere near the levels it might have done before. And here's why.
While football has been off the scene everything has changed; changed from those far-off days of just a few weeks ago when fans of some clubs were congregating outside their grounds as the games were played BCD. Since those seemingly distant-but-in-fact-still-very-recent-days everyone in the world, just about, has realised the seriousness of the situation and everyone here has had a proper taste of lockdown.
I think if, hypothetically and optimistically (and I know how much optimism seems to annoy some here, but nevertheless), if games were to resume BCD in the next couple of months and the clubs all publicly requested fans to stay away and not congregate, then I think fans now
would stay away. Yes, even Liverpool fans during the title winning game.
That's one of the beneficial consequences that have accrued from postponing play for a while, until everyone has come up to speed with the seriousness of the situation, such that peer pressure will also work to ensure that people don't ''I'm alright Jack'' their way to doing things they have been told not to. Certainly if the club has asked us not to congregate and someone here were to announce that they were going to, they'd soon get told.
Of course it would be sad to win the title without fans present, and without mass nights out on the ale to celebrate, and without a parade to end all parades, but that's the hand we've been dealt so we would just need to get one with it. If there's any consolation, such a win would, in hindsight, become another incredible ''you'd-never-have-believed-it-if-it-hadn't-happened'' part of our already rich history. Hopefully it would end up being a unique, never-to-be-repeated title winning situation, unlike any other.