I had a conversation yesterday about what the world will be like when lockdown is lifted. We agreed it will not be lifted all at once. Small private gatherings will be permitted first, then restaurants, cinemas and eventually bars. The last thing to be released from lockdown will be football stadiums.
When you consider how football fans shout, sing and embrace, normal attendance at games will not be possible while the virus exists and large parts of the population remain in mortal danger. Thousands of spectators cross-contaminating will not be allowed to happen until the virus is eradicated or a vaccine is distributed. This could take years.
Around 90% of the football industry across Europe may go out of business before selling another match ticket. Scotland would be left with Celtic and the community clubs, who can furlough every member of staff, get a grant for the rates and rent out their pitch to youth teams to pay insurance and utility bills.
This is just one small unthinkable thing in a seemingly imperious industry that is very thinkable in 2020. Similar consequences will be replicated in other industries across the world. If football wants to survive, it has to get innovative very quickly.
Facemasks, visors, gloves, a shedload of new rules on behaviour permitted at a football ground, alcohol gel dispensers everywhere and cashless kiosks are all things clubs should be planning for. It would be a mistake to assume the game we are familiar with will return at any point in the next year. Your football stadium experience will either be very different, or it will not happen for a long time.
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BigShuggy,
Flights are no restricted just now, this would only be the case if the other countries had restrictions.
Absolutely horrendous (but predictable) death rates today.
RIP all those poor souls.
I genuinely hope the PM recovers.
That said, I won’t be joining “Team Boris”
If your strategy can be summed up as keeping a stiff upper lip and having jolly spiffing positivity – this is the outcome.
Hail hail
Keep The Faith
Seems lockdown going to get stricter soon,stay at home,no exercise outside.
Sevco, their support and their media mouth pieces have given up on stopping the ten.
It’s now about devaluing our ninth title and talking about an asterisk. They’re shite. So shite that they actually want to pretend the last 8 months of their football matches never happened.
Sevco fans do not want to finish this league campaign, they know how that ends. They want to throw muck and squeal injustice.
PHILBHOY:
I too messaged VFR, he has just replied to say he will empty his mailbox.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
FAIRHILL BHOY on 8TH APRIL 2020 6:48 PM
I good old chin wag with Marspapa yesterday afternoon.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Tontine.
Cheers, that makes sense.
Still, as Aipple(?) implied, I hope it get swept for listening devices.
If I was being churlish I’d ask ‘why give him free advertising’?
LENNYBHOY-good stuff mate.I constantly bore him with funny videos on what’s app.At least ,I think there funny 😂
Is’nt it uplifting to know that those long standing standard bearers of fair play. . . . . . . raingers(2020) are kicking up a right stink about the league title being called to a close without the last few games being played.
Now if Aberdeen had been thirteen points ahead of Celtic with eight games to go im sure they would have been right in there threatening to burn Doncasters house down !
The Blogger-I think if we had different bus contracts it would just invite the idiots to damage them.Like in the days we both had to have the same shirt sponsor
I think Celtic should propose an alternative
No financial payout as final placing cannot be confirmed, therefor league to be completed.
Surely most clubs will agree, seeing they cannot agree on final placings ???
So alternative
Celtic lose the vote, decision on payout and league placing to complete league and financial rewards is only other option, and not Celtic choice
So apparently all German teams are back in training and expect to begin playing games behind closed doors by the start of May and finish by end of June
No fans allowed until 2021
FAIRHILL BHOY on 8TH APRIL 2020 7:10 PM
He did mention that…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Must agree with the currant buns that the League is too close to call at the moment? I suggest we stay as we are until cup final day in May then, if no football played then we should accept positions as they are THEN pay out clubs money they are due. Paying out money at this time could lead to problems as positions could change and clubs may have spent the money received in a false position. Better to hold off and not have clubs spending money they don’t really have
Sleep tight fellow Time off to bed. HH
!!BADA BING!! on 8TH APRIL 2020 6:55 PM
Seems or official ?
HH
Celtic are in no hurry to call the league or dish out the prize money.
I’m sure some interim money was paid out a couple of weeks ago.
Let them stew.
I see both St Mirren & Kilmasonic
Have both Furloughed their full teams
On Friday 28th of Feb the UK confirmed 19 cases of infection, on the same day the WHO released the following recommendations.
For countries with imported cases and/or outbreaks of COVID-19
1. Immediately activate the highest level of national Response management protocols to ensure the all-of-government and all-of-society approach needed to contain COVID-19 with non-pharmaceutical public health measures;
2. Prioritize active, exhaustive case finding and immediate testing and isolation, painstaking contact tracing and rigorous quarantine of close contacts;
3. Fully educate the general public on the seriousness of COVID-19 and their role in preventing its spread;
4. Immediately expand surveillance to detect COVID-19 transmission chains, by testing all patients with atypical pneumonias, conducting screening in some patients with upper respiratory illnesses and/or recent COVID-19 exposure, and adding testing for the COVID-19 virus to existing surveillance systems (e.g. systems for influenza-like-illness and SARI); and
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5. Conduct multi-sector scenario planning and simulations for the deployment of even more stringent measures to interrupt transmission chains as needed (e.g. the suspension of large-scale gatherings and the closure of schools and workplaces).
What did the Torys do on Feb 28th?
A Downing Street spokesman said the Cobra meeting would take place on Monday “to ensure that everything that can be done is being done”.
Mon 23rd March
Boris Johnson will order police to enforce a strict coronavirus lockdown, with a ban on gatherings of more than two people and strict limits on exercise, as he told the British public: “You must stay at home.”
Tue 24th March
Under the rules, people must stay at home unless they have to leave the house to work
Through out that time and to date, we can still fly too and from, Tehran, Milan, New York and any other destination that allows arrivals.
but its China’s fault
Long term lurker. First ever post. Their statement has the smell of administration to me
Canamalar
It’s really good that you keep telling us what’s gone wrong – and who’s to blame – you may well be right. In the meantime lots of us are trying to deal with the situation as it is. The blame game can wait.
” !!BADA BING!! on 8TH APRIL 2020 6:55 PM
Seems lockdown going to get stricter soon,stay at home,no exercise outside.”
Source?
About three weeks ago , I suggested that the Ethiopian head of the W.H.O. ” put his own house in order ” before lecturing the rest of the planet.
Finally.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/ethiopia-declares-state-emergency-fight-covid-19-200408142519485.html
Does anyone, like myself, think that had The Rangers been ahead after 30 games,
A. Their statement would have been completely different
B. SPFL would have already awarded them the title.
Or am I just being paranoid? Again
Macjay – ditto my comment to canamalar
David1958
Welcome aboard.HH
GG
Absolutely not – they would be dignified in their insistence the league be null and void.
Repair shops on –
As no one else is asking DAVID1958…….well are you?
David1958
Are you a hun, welcome,😁
Foghorn..,
he did,the WHO told them what to do on the 28th of February, like they told every country in he world.
This report from 3 hours ago hardly justifies your …… Ah say… Ah say boy
Gene
I think you are addressing the wrong poster. As far as I can see Canman is merely responding to the blame game being perpetrated by the likes of Big G and Macjay. Maybe you might address those 2 trolls as well.
Chi- na
Clink – see 8.04 –
New York reporting a significant reduction in new cases from yesterday.
Yesterday. 10,468
Today. 6,932
‘The “Rangers” NEED money’ would be more accurate.
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 8TH APRIL 2020 7:49 PM
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CANAMALAR – absolutely correct.
GENE – I agree we need to deal with the fallout of this criminal negligence – biggest case of corporate manslaughter we are likely to see (although I expect govt are probably not subject to that legislation).
All efforts on:
1. Halting spread through non-clinical / social measures
2. Contribute to research to identify treatments that will reduce volume of community acquired cases that require hospitalisation
3. Contribute to research to identify treatments that will reduce volume hospitalised patients that progress to requiring ventilation
4. Contribute to research to identify treatments that will reduce number of patients that lose their lives
5. Contribute to research to identify a viable vaccine
After that – we can nail the bastards who were sleeping at the wheel, and puting economic strife ahead of many lives.
HH
BGFC
Gene @ 8:06
I hope you easily get your tongue out your cheek. 😂
GG – moi
Gene,
apparently it can wait when the west is on the receiving end but you’ve no objection when the finger is pointed at China.
You’ll remember and if you don’t then go back and look, its your pal foghorn leghorn that started the blame game, I am providing balance. Obviously actually researched information as opposed the the propaganda foghorn is relaying, is causing some concern as it clearly identifies our leaders have been caught red handed demonstrating dangerous incompetence and criminal negligence.
They will be as usual admonished, because clowns like foghorn will flood the media with misinformation to distract and divert attention away from those responsible for failing to protect their citizens/subjects.
So no, I will not be silent any time soon, focus needs to be maintained on the culprits and as long as foghorn is spouting his drivel I’ll be tearing it up with real information.