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I'm not sure I understand the furore about this. The Job Retention scheme is there to help businesses - any business - whose means of income have been directly affected by Government policies to address the pandemic. Through "no fault of their own" Tottenham (and most sports) are incapable of trade and face ruinous losses.
This isn't going to be for "2 months" - it's possible there will be no mass spectator sport played for up to a YEAR. Or longer. Maybe games can be played behind closed doors achieving some sort of TV income but even that is highly dubious.
It's Daniel Levy's job to ensure the continuation of THFC in what is, to all intents and purposes, an existential threat. Furloughing and pay cuts is not only sensible but essential given the uncertainty facing the club/sport.
These employees will be far worse off if they have no job to come back too. As will we fans if we have no team to support any longer.
This is true of entire swathes of the economy. Theatre - the "West End" faces an existential threat. Cinema venues; tourism; airlines - anything that relies upon the movement and gathering of large numbers of people is, right now, facing existential threat. Now. Not June; not August. Right now. And for up to a year.
There's also the fact that Furloughed staff are allowed to seek work elsewhere while under furlough so can actually increase the income in these uncertain times.
I can't understand why all clubs aren't doing this. There's a general sense that this is a problem lasting a few weeks./months. It's not. It just isn't.
This isn't going to be for "2 months" - it's possible there will be no mass spectator sport played for up to a YEAR. Or longer. Maybe games can be played behind closed doors achieving some sort of TV income but even that is highly dubious.
It's Daniel Levy's job to ensure the continuation of THFC in what is, to all intents and purposes, an existential threat. Furloughing and pay cuts is not only sensible but essential given the uncertainty facing the club/sport.
These employees will be far worse off if they have no job to come back too. As will we fans if we have no team to support any longer.
This is true of entire swathes of the economy. Theatre - the "West End" faces an existential threat. Cinema venues; tourism; airlines - anything that relies upon the movement and gathering of large numbers of people is, right now, facing existential threat. Now. Not June; not August. Right now. And for up to a year.
There's also the fact that Furloughed staff are allowed to seek work elsewhere while under furlough so can actually increase the income in these uncertain times.
I can't understand why all clubs aren't doing this. There's a general sense that this is a problem lasting a few weeks./months. It's not. It just isn't.