Vaccine passports at football

I can't make sense of these rules.

'Fans will need to show proof of double vaccination or a negative test to attend sporting events with crowds of more than 10,000 people in England under new Covid-19 rules.'

'The Covid pass will also be needed for any unseated indoor venue with more than 500 people attending and any unseated outdoor venue with more than 4,000 people attending.'

So they're saying 10,000 for outdoor 'sporting events' and 4,000 for other outdoor events? None of this is clear.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59602664
"Face coverings are now compulsory in most indoor venues in England, under measures to tackle the Omicron variant. The new rules require people to wear masks in locations including theatres, cinemas, places of worship, museums and indoor sport stadiums."
Will this spread to outdoor sports stadiums? If it does I cannot see it being complied with. We know this government ramps things up so I wonder should we all enjoy football for the next few weeks before we have to dress up like space astronauts to watch a game.

Although I had my booster on Saturday, this omicron variant may well keep me away from games for longer than intended. It wouldn't surprise me if I end up writing off this season. It's not just about my own safety but anyone I might transmit to away from the game.

I look forward to that day very much.  I imagine most of us know someone by now who has had the virus.  A good friend of mine came very close to death some time back (he eventually made an excellent recovery) and was hospitalised for two months.  The drugs they put him on sent him around the twist temporarily and he had to be restrained while in hospital.  The next day a couple of hospital workers were very off with him and someone explained that he had one of them against the wall the day before.  He couldn't recall anything about it.  He looks a bit of a gorilla but is a very gentle guy.  The antiviral drugs messed with his head temporarily.

I probably had it too but far less severely.  I ended up on antibiotics with blood clots and pneumonia in my lungs and a DVT in one of my legs.  I was never hospitalised but have been a regular outpatient for much of the past year.  I will be on a blood thinner for the rest of my life.  The antibiotics they first put me on were bloody awful as I became breathless after walking about a hundred yards.  Fortunately, it was a very short course.  So if anyone feels I'm being a bit wimpish about this business, I'm sure they'll now understand that I don't wish to have a repeat performance.  I do acknowledge that the whole business has messed with my head a bit too.

A couple of members of my family have just gone down with it over the last week, and one of them has been pretty much wiped out by it, she's been sleeping most of the day apart from the odd times where she's watched TV, so it's definitely not something you want to catch even if it's milder. 

But yes I think if you'd had it before like that you'd naturally want to take more precautions to make sure you don't get it again, especially if it was a while since you had it, so course don't worry at all about people thinking you're wimpish or anything, it's your decision wherever you want to go to games with big crowds or not

You have described herd immunity but with the most vulnerable shielding.  One of the problems with that is it's not always possible to predict who is most vulnerable.  My friend is under 60 and with a decent immune system as far as he knew, but diabetes 2 probably caused a more adverse reaction than most experienced..

Can we please talk about football?