I also get the feeling that the amount of number-crunching and due diligence done before money is out the door as part of the government Covid schemes has been pretty minimal (and with good reason, given the circumstances).
I don't disagree, just saying that the approach has largely been money out the door first, serious checking later.
Probably,there's a difference between a large and wide scheme and a very targeted one though. The fact that only a handful of clubs got money, and there was a quite a lot of disparity between them, and a lot of others are fuming that they missed out shows that there was at least some due diligence.