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Penny wise – pound foolish.
The piece essentially said that Mace were going to be liable for compensation running into millions.
Essentially, audio kits aren’t just about playing music, or half time interviews, etc.
‘Oh so what you’re saying is Levy was going to turn the New Destination into another potential Grenfell?’
The kit the Levy’s bought and had installed had no fire rated cables, so if there were to be a fire at the stadium – the cables would melt.
There must be a double rated system.
The club has had to completely replace the system, add new racks for speakers; the main work involves digging out and replacing cables- which is really time consuming as a lot of them are already connected into other systems – stadium wide.
The story from THFC back in August of 2018 was that ‘recent testing and commissioning has now shown issues with the critical safety systems.’
The test events were duly abandoned and the Liverpool game was switched to Wembley.
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