Liverpool Preparing “New Processes and Systems” for Eventual Fan Return

The club say they’re hard at work getting everything in order
for the day fans are able to return to Anfield.

Before the 2020-21 season started, the hope some was for fans to
return quickly albeit in limited numbers, with the most optimistic
plans even suggesting there could be fans in the stands for the
Community Shield between Liverpool and Arsenal as a test run.

That never happened, but when the season started, the hope was
for fans to return by the start of October. We’re now at the end of
that month and a return for the fans looks farther off than ever
with cases of coronavirus on the rise in England and around the
world.

Despite that, the Premier League and their member clubs insist
that they’re continuing to explore ways to bring the fans back—and
to ensure that when it is possible for them to start to return to
stadiums, it can be done in a manner that’s safe for all
involved.

“It was expected that the opening fixtures of the 2020-21 season
would take place behind closed doors until at least October,” read
a from the club today, “with the likelihood
that stadiums would then initially operate at reduced capacity.

“As of the end of September, this plan was postponed due to
increasing cases of COVID-19. However, we are continuing to work to
ensure that when the time is right for spectators to return, we are
in the best possible position to welcome fans back to Anfield.

“We are working on a number of new processes and systems, which
will be introduced in the coming weeks, that will enable us to be
properly prepared to welcome fans back to Anfield as safely and
efficiently as possible when government guidelines allow.”

Given the current situation, it’s difficult to imagine any
processes or systems that would make it possible for fans to return
any time soon. Still, if the club does have a plan that doesn’t
involve waiting for things to improve, it will be interesting to
hear what it is.

Realistically, though, it seems unlikely at this stage that fans
could return in any numbers in 2020, with it fair to wonder at this
point if fans will be able to return at all this season and a
return in the new year likely dependant on the formulation of a
vaccine.

The legal profession has once again scooped the top prize for
the most arrogant profession for the 78^th year running,
beating even policemen and witches, According to
postamate reports^[1]

In the annual awards for the most arrogant professionals,
lawyers and their kind took all the possible awards, beating the
politicians who came a distant second. To put things into
perspective, the legal professionals were found to be six times
more arrogant than policemen and 42 times more arrogant than the
matatu (transport) industry in Kenya.

While the results were expected, it is a situation that
continues to baffle many normal people who just love minding their
own business. “How can people be so arrogant when they neither
understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics nor understand the Germ
theory of diseases?” Wondered one small scale farmer who is not
into politics and institutionalized gossip. “Doesn’t it even bother
them that someone wearing a horse wig on the head should not speak
too loudly when our grandmothers with their hand knit caps are
around?”

Unmoved by Covid-19

Not even the fact that majority of them still use Windows
XP^[2] could
help tame their arrogance.

Even with Covid-19 which led to closure of courts rendering many
lawyers irrelevant, many continued to maintain their arrogant tone
and looking down on other lesser professionals, in spite of the
fact that lawyers could barely put food in their mouth.

“They continued to speak fluent arrogance even when the law
societies were frantically trying to scramble for coins to help
them pay their rent. In Kenya, poor relatives in the village were
also sustaining them by sending them maize and beans, but the
lawyers in their impeccable suits continued to boast of their
mastery of the queen’s language on social media.”

Experts opine that this is a problem that is likely to last for
many years as it seems to be rooted in their DNA.

It is not limited to practising professionals only. Even law
students continue to regard themselves as better than all other
comrades, with reports that some of them consider themselves more
important to the learning institutions than Music Professors.

The same award awaits them next year.