While football fans continue to sit at home and cannot enter the football pitches, even if they are vaccinated or meet all the conditions of the green mark, due to the Ministry of Health’s insistence not to approve the outline proposed by the Football Leagues Director, next Friday, Saturday and Sunday Bloomfield Football Stadium will serve as a square for singers’ performances, with the culture crowd getting to enter a stadium where football fans have not walked for an entire year.
The Tel Aviv Municipality has rented the Bloomfield Stadium for performances by Ivri Lider, Yardena Arazi and Dikla. The three artists will perform this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the entrance to the event will be by presenting a green card and ID only when it is mandatory to wear a mask throughout the event, keep distance throughout the event to be seated by marked places and no food sales will be allowed.
Now, what exactly is the difference between whoever comes to see these shows and the football fans? There seems to be no difference. The stadiums in Israel are already prepared and ready to receive spectators according to the outline requested by the league director, an income of one third of the content of each stand, a number that is about 6,000 spectators at Bloomfield Stadium for that matter, but the director’s requests are not approved by the Ministry of Health.
Only last Saturday, Maccabi Haifa conducted a pilot to enforce the admission of fans to the Sami Ofer Stadium and the stadium managers there have long claimed that they are ready for the moment when they will be allowed to bring in fans. Chairman Erez Kalfon defined this as the most important task these days. The layout he offers has not yet been accepted and football fans will be able to buy a ticket for a performance by Jordana Arazi, Dikla or Ivri Lider to enter Bloomfield, but football they will have to keep watching from the armchairs at home.
While all this was going on, there was a failed initiative, in which Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem fans called on fans to come to Bloomfield this coming Monday, a day after the last cultural event to take place at the stadium, to demonstrate and demand that their right to return to the pitches be exercised. This one. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated at the time that when he received the first vaccine dose that “the vaccines will allow us to return to the pitches,” he apparently meant that we would return to the pitches to hear Yardena Arazi.
At the same time, and alongside everything written in the above lines, the owners of the groups were expected to make joint calls, to pump up the outline of the principal, to apply great pressure, not to stop talking about the issue. Unfortunately, the Israeli football fan public, this does not happen and leads to the conclusion that maybe one of the fans may not really care. Not to the clubs, not to the government and not to the Ministry of Health. Everyone is to blame for the failure that prevents football fans from returning to the field.