The news that the SPFL have asked clubs to check their insurance cover because of the coronavirus crisis will not have surprised my regular readers.
As I reported yesterday it would be prudent for even the most well-run Engine Room Subsidiary to have up to date business interruption insurance.
Of course, it would be highly unfortunate if any SPFL club had allowed their policy to lapse because of cash flow issues.
I’m sure that such a thing has not happened.
Earlier this afternoon I was swapping texts with a lad who is a UEFA match delegate.
He was doing his duty some European youth fixture in Italy and he informed me that it was closed doors affair.
Moreover, he and all those taking part in the match had to undergo a medical examination beforehand.
Meanwhile, the world-class incompetents on the 6th floor of Hampden think that proving some hand sanitizer is all that is required on Sunday in the stadium that John Brown played for.
Someone somewhere is not paying attention.
Honestly, a pangolin has more cop on.
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Must be about time for news of a fantasy investment to come along again…oh, there it is in the Sun today. Laughable.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/11145142/rangers-investment-hong-kong/
Doesn’t even cover debt.
It’s probably a grand front for King’s last £5m plus some Park input and a share issue to avoid FFP rules.
Call me old cynical but it’s a keeping them lights on exercise with a grand flourish.
Total shutdown is now needed. Government wants virus to cripple NHS.
the penny dropped long time ago BORIS JOHNSON LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS WHO ARE GUESSING THIS MIGHT HAPPEN THAT MIGHT HAPPEN WOT A JOKE. SHUT THE UK DOWN QUICKLY YOU CAN’T EVEN MAKE SURE YOUR FAMILY IS SAFE WHEN YOU HAVE BORIS JOHNSON IN YOUR CORNER HE BETTER HOPE THE ROYALS DON’T GET IT HE’S TO BLAME COMMON SENSE THE ITALIANS DON’T MESS AROUND
Newspapers saying RIFC PLC to get £20m investment which will significantly change the Boardroom.
Buying King’s shares isn’t an investment in the club 😉
The reality is that the restrictions imposed in Italy, France etc is because once the virus spreads the local health services are not able to cope with the numbers and this has a knock on effect on other vunerable patients as well as over worked medical staff.
This was the principal reason here in Madrid.
Word from a friend, a doctor in a large hospital in France, is that the hospital is barely coping and there are people who were perfectly healthy with no prior health problems who are now in intensive care with a bleak outlook. We are not talking old people here. The other info I have is my business partner was talking to a person who is working on the algorithim to track the spread here in Spain. He stopped have face to face meetings a week ago.
Make of that what you will.
The media understand, it has been suggested that there are reports, perhaps, maybe Sevco are possibly poised to receive a £20 million investment from a mystery unknown Easterrn interested party who wishes to invest in a football club, it is believed. It is said that this idea will circulate until the season ticket sales start at which point it may come to nothing, It is their belief that It is reported, perhaps and maybe understood.to be factual and it is denied that the Asian man being shown round Ibrox earlier this year is not a local restauranteur of the Golden Lotus who had paid for the tour which is a scurrelous rumour.
Should we be worried?
There is a growing swell of opinion amongst the blue side to void the league now and scrap the Scottish Cup semis.
Rest assured that this has hee haw to do with potential health issues but all to do with stopping 9/10 IAR and a quadruple treble.
Will be no surprise that after Thursday and Sunday’s big money spinning games that someone in the Rangers squad is diagnosed with the virus!
Virus 🗣 is here to stay
unless the glib king 👑
Starts telling his yobs they
have to start washing themselves
hourly.
It’s a big ask
Is it controversial of me to suggest that Sunday`s game be closed doors, and that the government demand, as a one off, that the match be shown live on on BBC/ITV so that everyone
`s in their home, rather than breathing all over each other in the pub?
NOT that simple. TV contracts already jin place and tickets already sold. Knowing how Sevco operate the ticket money for tomorrow’s AND Sunday’s games has probably already been spent.
Singapore and Hong Kong got Coronavirus within ten days after China. They were initially high on the list of countries with infected.
They are now 18th and 20th on the list with 166 cases and 121 cases. They have had it seven weeks.
The UK has 383 cases and is 13th on the list.
Videos show all citizens wearing medical face masks. Absolutely everyone in every day life. All events/gatherings/meetings are cancelled. Nobody is touching surfaces. Everyone is washing hands regularly. Wearing gloves. Not touching faces and staying at least a meter from each other. Many are wearing full face visors like medical staff to prevent droplets in eyes.
They are self isolating. Working electronically from home. Students streaming lectures at home.
These countries are benefitting from knowing how to deal with these viruses. They have done it for decades. Both Singapore and HK are high density nations/cities. They reacted immediately and did not dither or wait and see.
All shop fronts being disinfection sprayed.
An approach of awaiting certain infection numbers before doing certain things is incompetent and criminal.
All public gatherings are banned immediately. Anything else is risking public health. Governments must act immediately.
Sporting bodies such as the SFA/SPFL are not competent to make these decisions. Their focus is £££ and keeping things running which is the diametric opposite of what is required.
The Rangers v Celtic game should be behind closed doors.
Let’s be proactive here and not reactive. Close door all sporting events with large crowd gatherings and be adult about it and not fecking pig ignorant, can Britain be right and the rest of Europe wrong FFS?????
Lol apparently £20 million pounds mystery investor putting cash into sevco . Now I wonder who was responsible for this little squirrel story Shifty or Shady (King or Traynor) .
I don’t see the point in putting any country in lockdown for a defined period of time, if at any point after that a (unknowingly infected) punter can turn up and infect said country.
The only thing to do is let the virus run it’s course and meanwhile try to make a vaccine.
Utter nonsense. Ignorant and dangerous.
These viruses can be isolated and contained it takes whole nations to contribute.
Look at Singapore and Hong Kong, exemplars at reacting to this.
Let the virus run its course and infect our elderly and infirm population and accept the estimated 10% mortality rate?
Behave yourself FFS
no other word other than idiot
It’s about capacity
If you slow the virus down then our health services can cope if the demand does not exceed capacity
Think of it as a bell curve
When live cases exceed nhs capacity we are in real trouble
If we can delay the numbers so the bell curve becomes shallower then we can help prevent exceeding capacity
It won’t affect the total numbers affected but it will affect when they are infected which is key
not a great idea to be honest, this will result in all our hospitals being overrun with doctors and nurses burnt out. we need to try and control the outbreak, not let it run riot
Pretty sure I heard on some news channel last week that the Government have ordered insurance companies to cough up and if necessary will pass legislation to make sure they do.
Not much help mind you, if you’re not insured in the first place
I think sevco will get Thursday’s game out the way and the Celtic game on Sunday and then we will hear about the bad news coming out from ibrox then . King and Co have been way to quiet these past couple months . There has got to be something on the horizon.
The Irish government has ordered the cancellation of all St Patrick’s Day parades, and that includes, of course, the one in my village in County Galway.
Ah well, I’ll just have to wave my tricolour and sing Amhrán na bhFiann and Hail, Glorious Saint Patrick in my living room instead.
It would be an outcome devoutly to be desired if the Huns were to lose the revenue from the match, with no insurance pay-out. However, the Scottish football authorities, the scumbag unionist media and the Masons will do everything in their power to prevent that happening.
The European matches are, as they say, a different ball game, and UEFA and/or the EU might have something to say about those.
All SNP marches, Gay Parades, Orange Order marches or Irish Republican marches should be stopped. Also any religious parades, Events, or remembrance events. It all needs to cease immediately.
The UK now has more confirmed cases than Singapore and Hong Kong combined. Go figure why!
I’m not sure that we should be treating this matter as lightly as some appear to be doing. Having just returned home from northern Italy just over a week ago when the Coronavirus was recognised as a potential problem but no more than that it has now escalated to such an extent that the whole country is in shutdown and over such a short period of time. I think that we should be adopting extreme measures to ensure that it doesn’t spread in our country and if that means postponing football matches then that’s what we should do.
Phil,
I have to disagree with you here. The UK chief medical officer and cheif scientist have stated yesterday that banning mass gatherings is quite an ineffectual method of controlling the virus – this is science fact ( regardless of what other countrys are doing) and the virus does not survive outside the body for very long – so no need to do this at this current stage in UK – Think this through – how many people are crowded into the tube in London on a single day – approx 2 million per day all using the same seats/handles/doors – much more possible transmission than going to a match.
And for another comment the Government is not ‘dithering’ thats an easy target comment. The press conference yesterday made it clear that as the situation changes and is modelled on a daily basis – when the situation changes the advice will change. The next step in about 10-14 days is for people to self isolate for 7 days.
We are not in a hollywood movie yet – no need to ban people from attending matches
Utter reckless nonsense. Paris has banned gatherings over 50. France over 1,000. Germany has banned gatherings over 1,000. Nothing moves in Italy. It’s viral warfare.
We must act NOW. Not await it spreading then act too late. We know it’s here, we know we will be like italy so get everything stopped now.
The government is compromised by big business not wanting everything closed down like China and Italy. The welfare of our elderly is being risked to protect corporate profits.
It’s as though there’s a deliberate strategy to allow it to progress among the masses, to give UK scientists a good crack at studying it. Developing the jab and making billions.
Read this note 28days later. 🧟♂️
Agreed it’s the big money folk that want us to continue at a higher risk.had the closest thing to it last year and knocked me on my arse for 4 months before i felt anywhere near fit again, fuck catching this one……
The virus can live for up to a week on surfaces.
it has worked in China?
I think sevco will get Thursday’s game out the way and the Celtic game on Sunday and then we will hear about the bad news coming out from ibrox then . King and Co have been way to quiet these past couple months . There has got to be something on the horizon.
Hi Phil. You’ve mentioned business interruption insurance. I’m sure you will have readers operating in the insurance world who can be more definitive but, as someone with a bit of current knowledge in that area on dealing with brokers in the property business, I’m not convinced any insurer will be paying out due to the virus. Might put a different completion on things if all clubs – well and not so well run – are on their own on that front
Business Interruption insurance often has notifiable disease extensions so loss of income following closure by a local authority could be covered. However many Insurers specify the diseases they cover. They dont include this virus. Also the virus has to be present on the premises or within a mile of the premises. Many of the big Insurers are already confirming their policies will not operate. Others will carve out any possible cover as soon as the policy is due for renewal.
With the credit card company, releasing funds on a game by game basis they are so fortunate they’ve not had an Italian team in this round.
one thing IS for sure if the roles had been reverse and it was a Celtic Park Match day, it’d be closed already. – I do hope *Ran2ers insurance policy covers all those visiting the stadium and not contracting the virus, leaving themselves open to litigation.
Heard of much consternation in the boardroom pre County, if there was to be Uefa sanctioned behind closed door account. It was definitely given airtime. OUR won governing body, the kinda who appoint John Beaton to matches. As a result of a Uefa Order, could NOT be seen to be acting in any such irresponsible way and by allowing the game to go ahead, Uefa would force the issue. Still 48 hours to go at time of comment.
Come on Uefa…..we know they’ve not got insurance, they won’t pay for drainage never mind stadium closures.
Drawing an Italian team would not have.made any difference to them. The away leg would have been played behind closed doors as will be the case when they play BL.
You have detailed this for some time now. Quite frankly, they cannot afford not to have the income generated from the European and Celtic matches. That’s why the SFA and SPFL are not going to mandate playing behind closed doors until sometime next week.
It is indeed a curious situation.
Normally, our daily lives in the UK are impacted by ‘Health & Safety’ potential risks – from yellow signs on wet floors to ‘contents my be hot’ on coffee cups, etc.
Yet the UK government is very reluctant to make a decision on a national health risk.
It’s a tough one though: if you ban ‘large’ crowds at footy matches, concerts, etc… then logically you would have to also ban public gatherings at cinemas, trains, supermarkets, theatres, pubs, restaurants, schools, workplaces, etc.
It seems it’s either do nothing, or close everything down.
For once, the dithering UK government ‘might’ be doing the right thing: deciding not to make a decision!
Their indecision is final – I think !
Mmmmmmm…………..not so sure about that!!
Close EVERYTHING. INCLUDING BORDERS.