Villa CEO Purslow critical of reduced fan limit for test events

Aston Villa CEO Christian Purslow has criticised the government's decision to limit sporting pilot test events to a maximum of 1,000 fans for the rest of September.

The new Premier League campaign begins this weekend without fans - the same scenario clubs faced after the resumption of last season following a three-month hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.In July the government said fans could possibly return to stadiums by Oct. 1 following a series of pilot events in various sports, but that is now under review after a rise in infections.

"The only thing you will learn from having 1,000 fans in a stadium in a football test event is that football clubs lose huge amounts of money when their stadiums are empty and that has a profound impact on the economy of football." "The government have been in possession for over two months of a wide-ranging proposal for a set of test events that should have taken place in September, including what we thought of as a pioneering event in central London to try and move away from this social distancing limitation as the basis of which to determine how many fans can come in," Purslow said.

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