What is Alexander Ceferin thinking?

That around 2500 people who are very important in his eyes have to travel to England, circumventing all reasonable football guidelines.

The President of the European Football Union (UEFA) demands exceptions for his VIPs at least for the last week of the European Championship with the semi-finals and the final at Wembley Stadium.

This is what the usually well-informed London Times writes.

You don't have to be a conspiracy expert to see a pattern.

Hasn't Munich, among other things, been put under pressure by UEFA to absolutely admit spectators to the four games in the Allianz Arena?

A rhetorical question.

In the background, UEFA's withdrawal of love always resonated.

Then we'll go somewhere else.

Ceferin now seems to be building up the same pressure in the motherland of football.

As if there could be safe conduct for the guests of the grandstand in a country which, according to the Foreign Office on June 20, posed a "particularly high risk of infection".

The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is rampant in England.

When in doubt, she does not care how important a football sponsor is rated by UEFA.

Even the best bubble concept is no guarantee.

Nevertheless, the VIP should be allowed what the common German football fan would be forbidden when entering from home: even with a negative PCR residue, bypassing a five-day quarantine.

UEFA's duty of care

A walk-through for UEFA potentates is not to be feared for the time being.

England are sticking to their rules and will hopefully stand up to Ceferin.

So that the Slovenian finally understands that his game can not only be about demands, but must be about insights.

Because there is more at stake than the convenience for 2500 supposed dignitaries.

Above all, the credibility of UEFA again.

She claims to be a responsible member of a European society struggling for community, but acts ruthlessly selfish.

England, with all due respect, shouldn't be a place for big events these weeks.

This not only applies to the European Championship, but also to Wimbledon and Formula 1 in mid-July.

The organizers are also responsible for this.

Fans can stay at home when in doubt, but the pros, the teams that qualify for the semi-finals will take the risk.

Anyone who is halfway interested knows what athletes accept when their dream destination seems within their grasp.

UEFA would have to live up to its duty of care instead of wanting to lay the red carpet for its potentates.

She regularly fails on this task, see the expansion of the game boards in European competitions.

It is also not surprising that the association is driving its moral decline into the abyss by sending a devastating signal with the power play around London as the venue.

Budapest, it is said, would be ready to take on the final round immediately.

Almost 60,000 spectators in the Ferenc Puskas Stadium on Saturday pretended that the world was as it was before, celebrating without masks, body to body.

Anyone who allows this or even wants to force it, excuse me, cannot be completely sealed.