Celtic have apparently asked the Scottish Government to take a common sense look at their Covid restrictions for football players, but I don’t know if I have ever imagined a greater waste of energy than to appeal to this Government’s common sense.
Yesterday they shuttered the hospitality sector for most of the country, while locking down rural areas after 6pm, claiming this sector was prevalent in the rise of Covid’s second wave. You don’t say, Sherlock. Since August they permitted football fans to gather in enclosed pubs to watch games, while prohibiting games at open air stadiums, contrary to all scientific evidence. We have repeatedly discussed this folly here.
Encourage people into pubs, then blame pubs for the second wave, if only they were prepared to deviate from the policies of a Westminster government, scientific evidence would have had a chance to influence political policy.
Thousands of fans attend games across Europe, all outdoors, all socially distanced, all with strict travel, entry and egress protocols, mandated by governments who are not following Boris Johnson’s cabal. There has been no related increase in contagion – because, as we all know, this is not how contagion happens. It happens indoors, where there is no monitoring.
The hospitality sector needed to be thoroughly monitored (just as the football sector would have been) when it opened. Spot checks should have taken place many times each week, with licences pulled immediately for those who allowed unsafe practices. If it was monitored, social distancing practices would be sufficient to keep people safe.
I saw plenty of venues that had clearly spent a small fortune on partitions, with staff permanently wiping and cleaning handles, and others which looked little changed from the pre-Covid era. There was no consistency, which means there was no enforced monitoring, which means responsibility for the rise in contagion from the hospitality sector lies largely with the government.
If you do not monitor compliance and close offending venues, you know you are contributing to the problem. Despite this, you can continue watch afternoon games in a Dunfermline pub, with as much alcohol as you can consume, without any change in government monitoring policy.
Unusually, this wave of restrictions came several days ahead of Westminster’s planned move. Don’t get me started on it grabbing the headlines on ‘Oh, I forgot Day’. We are bereft of competent leadership in Edinburgh and London. The former can do what they like because their opposition is even less competent than they are, and the latter can do what they like because they have another four years before they need to care about you.
It is thoroughly depressing; our government co-joined twins care nothing of the game, do not expect any amount of evidence to bring about change. As long as they keep their legions of cognitively dissonanced fan boys (CDFBs) on side, competency will not improve. I buy none of their bull, self-promoting careerists to the last. Green and white are my only colours.
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Almore
Has it been usual Ireland game; solid but waiting for the one big chance?
BOGNORBHOY on 8TH OCTOBER 2020 9:33 PM
St stivs
Very sweary…
ta vg
ConeyBhoy: Pretty much so. Slovakia no pushover but game could go either way. Neither team would contribute to the finals, imho.
Almore
TBH Israel look more a team than Scotland
ET HT 0-0
Great strike from Calmac pulls a save. Serbia ahead in Norway…
Ajer also playing 120 mins, Elyounoussi on bench, not uses thus far…
How boring is this SFA game.
No bad thing if SFA Scotland do not go through, would it mean no more dross games like these to risk our players in.
There I said what most of you were thinking.
D :)
The insights from Shortie are appalling…………………..
cliche-ridden rockets.
Darn Bitton and El Hamed play for Israel
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How poor is this
Looks like we had a left back all the time
This will get football stopped, never mind Covid, totally embarrassing, Paterson, up front, a pub team utility player
bitton duffy elhamed ,
Serbia beat Norway and await the winners of this glamour tie…….😉
Penalty’s will be entertaining or embarrassing
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Best of luck to the SFA 11
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if anyone thinks NFL brand of football is rubbish (which it is not), try watching scotland.
120 minutes without a shot on goal,
do they go through to meet Father teds 5 a side team, ffs
Ireland out
Yes we win⚽⚽⚽
Well done SFA land
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No more penalties for Odsonne ! Calmac and Nir both theirs very well.
they celebrated that like a huns dressing room at a pertrofac cup semi
SS
Brilliant👏👏
Watched the last 10mins of regular time.
And 30 mins of purgatory.
If I’d been brought up watching that, I’d be a basketball viewer!
Looks like 3 uninjured Celts.
The two best bhoys were wearing white.
Classy x2
HH jg
Glasgow Derby odds :
Celtic 23;20; Newco 12/5.
The 3 Celtic players all played very well. Bitton strolled it, Elhamed was very effective at left wing back and Callum was effective and didn’t tire even at the 120 min mark. Overall Scotland are pretty rubbish. But I’m Scottish so its them or naebdae!
The better team lost. But Scotland took 5 very good penalties (but were fortunate that the 1st went in).
Remember send your top 3 players to me at YOUGOTTABEKIDDING@GMAIL.COM
….and I am not encouraging people to bet. I am simply trying to sooth the nerves of those CQNers who feel we are terrible and the Huns are a well-oiled machine.
Jobo
” But I’m Scottish so its them or naebdae!”
Come on the Naebdaes !
I think that was history; never been far enough in a tournament to get pens!!
Naismith has a massive heid
Thank goodness we signed Greg Taylor and not the Kilmarnock full back we were credited with an interest in .
We played with little confidence; that could drive the squad on now
As mcginn said, great for Scottish people right now
Well at least the Celtic defence will have a week in November to work together with Duffy, Ajer, Bitton and Elhamed joining Jullien at Lennoxtown
I think winning the penalties was the booby prize.
Now we get the chance to get beat by Serbia,
Wonder how many who played today will travel?
I thought the look at me referee was ridiculous at the penalties
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 8TH OCTOBER 2020 10:32 PM
SS
Brilliant👏👏
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ahhyyyee thank you,
exit stage left