Coronavirus and football.

[StensonRam]

The owners of F1 Liberty Media charge the promotor a hosting fee of many many millions and each year the fee increases by about 3%, those countries that get government subsidies have to file the costs so with a bit of digging you can find out what it cost, Silverstone on the otherhand gets no government help so their hosting fee is somewhat a secret or difficult to guess, again it'll be on a sliding scale at 3% increase a year so on a 10 year contract they'll end up paying 30% more than they started out at but we don't know what they started at. However paying this is the easy part of the process. The race organisers then have to sell all the tickets, pay staff, Police and ambulance including 2 air ambulances, insurances etc and then promote the event and hope people come, and they do, they normally sell out yet Silverstone rarely break even, sometimes make a loss so without any spectators, holding a race behind closed doors certainly Silverstone well it wouldn't exsist.....it can't.

On a much smaller scale it makes you wonder how much it hurts a club to have a match played behind closed doors, if the govermant ban mass movement of people I think we'll soon find out

[ramAnag]

The owners of F1 Liberty Media charge the promotor a hosting fee of many many millions and each year the fee increases by about 3%, those countries that get government subsidies have to file the costs so with a bit of digging you can find out what it cost, Silverstone on the otherhand gets no government help so their hosting fee is somewhat a secret or difficult to guess, again it'll be on a sliding scale at 3% increase a year so on a 10 year contract they'll end up paying 30% more than they started out at but we don't know what they started at. However paying this is the easy part of the process. The race organisers then have to sell all the tickets, pay staff, Police and ambulance including 2 air ambulances, insurances etc and then promote the event and hope people come, and they do, they normally sell out yet Silverstone rarely break even, sometimes make a loss so without any spectators, holding a race behind closed doors certainly Silverstone well it wouldn't exsist.....it can't.

On a much smaller scale it makes you wonder how much it hurts a club to have a match played behind closed doors, if the govermant ban mass movement of people I think we'll soon find out

Big implications anyway.
We’ve lived through scares such as Polio, Smallpox, AIDS, Swine flu, Bird flu, Ebola, Chernobyl, terrorism etc, but this is the first time I can remember sports events being cancelled apart from, as a preventative measure in some areas, to prevent the spread of foot and mouth.
Not sure what that tells us or if those that still think it’s all an overreaction may still have a point.