Every football fan knows the feeling when very early on in a match one of your guys lunges in and gets a yellow.
It means that his ability to go into full-blooded challenges is gone for the rest of the game.
The usual clichés involving “eggshells” and a “tightrope” are then usually deployed by the commentator.
Well, that’s how I feel now about season 2020-2011 on Planet Fitba.
If the First Minister is serious and I believe that she is VERY serious, then the SPFL clubs are on a yellow card.
Therefore, ipso facto it now only takes ONE more transgression by ANY player in ANY club between now and May next year.
Now the infractions can be both foreign (Bolingoli) or domestic (the Aberdeen chaps).
It doesn’t actually matter.
The Covid19 regulations are in place to prevent the spread of infection and save lives.
However, despite the gravity of the situation I fear that this message has not got through to every player in the SPFL.
For example, I am aware that a player in another SPFL club could have made a trip to Spain for family reasons in recent weeks.
Now, if true, from the alleged timeline it is self-evident that the player did not self-isolate.
I’m sure that the intrepid chaps on the sports desks will be working assiduously to stand this story up so that they can get another scoop.
After all, it should not matter which football club is involved.
Dear reader, this is August.
It would be naïve in the extreme to believe that there will be no more acts of selfish idiocy by pampered footballers from now until May.
I think that Scotland’s First Minister is deadly serious.
A second yellow cannot be far away.
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Anybody any idea why this happened…or is this a hoax….I’m not trying to stir things up, I seen this for the first time yesterday, if this is right, then surely there are serious questions to be asked.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid
No the convid19 Regulations are in place to demoralise and destabilise us and take away our freedom, not to protect us. But hey, the sheep are following and complying. Closing down the whole world because of a so called killer virus that less people have died of than the flu in a bad year.200,000 people died during the house arrest period of other illnesses, and THEY are doing it to protect us? Sturgeon and Boris the Bawbag are singing from the same hymn sheet as the rest of the so called world leaders, taking their orders from the people that REALLY run our countries. Wake up FFS.
Jumbo
May I invite you to talk to staff and patients if hospital I work in which was badly affected by COVID-19 in April.
Real people some of whom literally put their lives on the line to care for Covid patients and who are extremely frightened of a potential reoccurrence this autumn.
Late lockdown cost at least 20,000 lives in UK.
But hey what does that matter to a selfish libertarian?
JP58 impeccable sources of mine caught “flu” one week before lockdown exactly a week later they lost taste and smell. They work in intensive care, years of experience. They consulted their GP….the NHS hotline and the intensive care department,all told them to go back to work….they worked right through the medical emergency in hands on situations… they held hands with dying patients as they talked to the patients families on the phone.
My source has nothing but contempt for rounds of applause for our heroic NHS…has contempt for the statistics….has contempt for the virtue signaling face mask hypocrites….and just last week told me they havent had a case of covid in intensive care since June….. so why do I need to tell the cops in a railway sation today to fuck off when they asked me a healthy person who has been tested twice in the last week at work and found negative of covid infection…. to wear a mask.
Brain dead sheep wear masks…by the way the cop I told to fuck off was quite a nice guy….he put up with my protest…and out of respect to him, I put a mask on ….for 1 minute 30 seconds.
Crouchback – I will listen to the scientists (independent SAGEin preference) who say what we should be doing everything to get numbers down (elimination policy) as currently pursued in Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland) & advice from WHO.
May I suggest your ‘friend and yourself go on line and watch BBC Wales Critical filmed in ICU in my local hospital in Newport to observe the reality of Covid.
I work with staff who have had Covid – pulled through and are suffering a range of longer term symptoms.
Do not fucken give me so called stories about a mate of mine said.
Get it into your thick skulls all of you this is a once in a century pandemic that is serious and could get a lot more serious unless we all screw the nut.
Sorry for rant but after what I have seen I am afraid a lot of comments here are insular, petty and potentially dangerous.
HI JP58, I’M not giving you “stories” I’m giving you facts. My impeccable source held the phone to the ear of a young person in a coma as they died with their family talking to them on the phone. They witnessed many deaths and various other things to much to go in to here.
I’m not in anyway connected to medical knowledge or skills, but most laymen I see are bamboozled by the whole thing, the magic money tree…the masks to be put forward as a miracle comforter after 20 something weeks and 40 odd thousand deaths. So many things just dont add up … anyway I’m glad your in Wales and I’m hundreds of miles north, couldnt do with a shouty sweary medical dictator looking after me.
On the 19th of march 2020 the WORLD HOAX ORGANISATION AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DOWNGRADED THE CONVIRUS TO A NON INFECTIOUS DISEASE, it’s on the government’s website. So why did they close the whole country down 4 days later on the 23rd of march? If you and people like you don’t see something sinister in this the you are the dangerous one.
Correction – Wales not pursuing zero elimination as Scotland & NI – disappoints.
Secondly Crouchback – what is your impeccable sources role in ICU and which hospital does he work at?
Thirdly- anybody coming on boasting about telling a policeman to F off is either under 15 or is a bit of a dickhead🤪
My source doesnt even know this site exists. So no name and no pack drill.
My source is my youngest brother, that is too much information allready.
Why should I lie about anything, what have I got to gain by that…??
Where as how many millions have been pumped to “friends” of Boris for out dated PPE…to a choclatier some where who has been given money to produce PPE…and other outrages.
If I were you I’d save your ire for the furlough debts your great grand children will be paying a hundred years from now…. rather than people like me who smell a rat about the whole thing.
Cheers, I’ll be in Edinburgh tomorrow, your welcome to a friendly word….I’ll be the one not wearing a mask.
From your last comment below it is obvious you are a dickhead.
I have been in NHS for 40 years and know value of medical advice.
You cannot have less respect for Tories than I have through long and bitter experience in NHS.
I also have relatives in NHS in Edinburgh and like rest of my relies in Scotland they follow medical advice out of respect for others. Something you would know nothing about you ignorant, self opinionated fool.
Next time I am up in Edinburgh I would be happy to meet you and tell you about the realities of life first hand.
Bye hunchback
Wow, have you had your bloid presure checked lately, Doc….???.
Somethings gone through the roof or maybe its your sanity….???
Did I mention my wife has more than 40 years experience as a nurse…no…??
When they asked her to take a nasal swab test she questioned the validity of the excercise as the test would only be “true” for the instant that the swab was taken. If she was negative of the virus which she has been everytime she has been tested, who is to say that she wont catch the virus from the very next patient she treats after she has her nose tested….if we are going to eradicate the virus as you put it shouldn’t every patient be tested before they attend hospital in case they infect my wife….who then might infect me…. who might infect others and eventually infect you. And you with your obvious mental problems, that would be a burden too far for a cop fucker offer like me to bear in a time of national calamity.
Listen Doc, what you hear is the sound of one hand clapping, I’ve enjoyed your posts so I’m clapping one hand for your part in my NHS medical education…you deserve that much.
I hope you never contract this horrible virus, but you need to visit a dentist for those teeth grinding noises I can hear….from here….!!!
Or a mason from the Brotherhood of Bam with a get out of jail free card…
I am saddened to see this site riddled with conspiracy theorists who prefer their own pet theories over latest scientific ( not political) advice from people who spend their life studying viral spread and people’s behaviour.
I will not return but would still ask you to keep safe and act responsibly to keep others safe.
Thank you
Such a shame some of those who chose to study Viruses,their Viral Spread and the inherent dangers of doing so never kept this particular one inside of a Level 4 Laboratory in Wuhan.
That’s a theory based on the facts at hand.
China and the WHO have a lot of explaining to do once this disaster is finally dealt with.
I agree wear a mask and keep your hands clean.
I might also suggest that China take their mask of respectability off and wash their dirty laundry in public.
All of it including the bits that have been bleached or incinerated.
And may I invite you to look at the worldwide figures of deaths for this so called DEADLY VIRUS. Shutting down the whole world, millions of unemployed, millions of businesses closed to never reopen unless your Amazon of course, millions of deaths due to other illnesses through no treatment because they closed doctors surgeries and hospitals. Hospitals lying empty, doctors and nurses doing tiktok videos supposed to be run off their feet whilst wearing space suits incase they catch the flu. New Zealand 4.5 million population with 22 YES 22 deaths have just closed the country AGAIN because 4 people tested positive for the flu and you think this is ok? You and people like you are the cause of the erosion of our freedoms. I know doctors and nurses who have been doing feck all for months and know this isn’t right but are afraid to open their mouths incase they lose their jobs, do you think that is NORMAL? I NEVER ARGUE WITH AN IDIOT. THEY ONLY BRING ME DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL AND BEAT ME WITH EXPERIENCE.
I wish it to be known that the Jimbo above does not represent me or indeed any other Jimbos that I know of. The rest of us have more sense than this eejit who has clearly spent too much time reading conspiracy sites for soft-noodled individuals.
Not that im.in total agreement on everything…but he does make a point.
Governments say kids to.school…..but close pubs
Im in spain…its j7st been decided we can go to bars and restaurants…but not smoke in same grouo…must distance away from table and keep 2 myrs.
Theres a certain amount of sense…and a lot of frivolity in many governments decisions imo.
A pandemic that kills less than 1% of people…..yet economies…all over europe are collapsing…business are folding….
Millions and millions out of work.
Is there something we are missing here.
Advice from experts being ignored.
Masks mandatory
Yet prolonged use is adverse to health….
I know theres some decisions that must be made
However..many are just ludicrious.
People are having their freedoms and libertys removed in the name of health safety
That will only be accepted for so long…and already we are seeing the start of resistance to covit law’s
People are by nature..not meant to be controlled
As I replied to the other tadger above.
I NEVER ARGUE WITH AN IDIOT. THEY ONLY BRING YOU DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL, AND BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE.
Let me start by saying what the Aberdeen players and Celtics player did was totally irresponsible and wrkng without any shadow of a doubt.
However before the season started THREE CLUBS were in breach of the mandatory testing protocol agreed between football and the Scottish government.
One of those CLUBS was The Rangers*, they allowed 9 of their first team players to participate in a bounce game against Dundee United.
9 players that’s the same amount of players involved in the Aberdeen and Celtic transgressions.
No action was take against The Rangers* and there was little more than a cursory mention of the affair in the Scottish media.
Tonight on Clyde SSB Darryl Widefoot explained the matter away by saying The Rangers* explanation for the breach of the rules was a “misunderstanding of the protocol”, matter closed, move on.
Now I do wonder if the Aberdeen and Celtic players can use this as a defence in their upcoming disciplinary hearings?
After all it worked for The Rangers*.
Exactly mate. The laws of this land are largely based on precedence, therefore any club censured for breach of COVID protocol has the defence of “We were too dumb to understand the rules and anyway – we are the people”.
Again let’s be honest, Sturgeons clueless or is she? 12th March the bigotdome is allowed to host 50 thousand spectators 2 or 3 days later the Scottish G/ment announces no large gatherings of more than 500 people either indoors or outdoors…Seriously in the space of a couple of days. Was she bending over backwards to accommodate skint fc?…March 1st first confirmed Covid case in Scotland…or so we thought. Turns out wee nicola and her cronies KNEW that there was confirmed cases before this but tried to cover it up. The woman’s a shambles and has no right to lecture anyone about anything ever!
Then there’s the whole face mask shite. She informs the public that in order to protect one another we must wear masks in shops….next week….What!?! And this is the same woman who, at first, refused point blank to sack her chief M/O.
Selective interpretation of the facts will always allow the sort of misinformation we are reading in these comments. So let’s put it right.
Entertainment and sport were perceived as high risk areas for the spread of COVID19. Rugby, hockey, shinty and many other team sports have not as yet returned to action. Theatre, concerts and even outdoor music festivals are not happening. So why is football back?
The reason – because football, the administrators and individual club executives lobbied the government to be allowed for it to start. They did it for financial reasons and only considered the fans for the money they would give their clubs. If you believe they had the health of their supporters in mind then you need to go back to school.
Having lobbied the government the politicians listened and were assured that all the intended measures would mean that the risk was minimal. The government despite their doubts were sympathetic and agreed to a staged return where any signs that agreed procedures were flouted or any signs of cross infection within the football groups would see it all shut down again.
It was the assurances that the football industry gave that allowed us to get to where we are now. It was not the government that had to consider whether individuals would step out of line, fly abroad, have parties or hit the town en masse. No, that was the responsibility of the clubs and the administrators that took on that responsibility when they appealed for the dispensation from the government. Stupid actions by individuals they may not be able to prevent but it does not absolve them from the responsibility. They were the ones that gave the assurances of controlled safe working environment and they did so knowing that they probably had idiots in their employ. If they couldn’t guarantee the behaviour of their employees then they should not have made the promises to the government. They could have given codicils to each of their players contracts to cover behaviour that would breach the club’s promises to the government. Any player who refused to accept that would be barred from returning to training. Those that did sign and broke the rules should face immediate dismissal.
But none of that was done by any of the clubs or administrators. The clubs and administrators, NOT the government. The actions of the government in my opinion were too lenient because football has made promises that they made no attempt ensure could be kept and they did that for money.
If you believe that your clubs are being mistreated in this then aim your anger at those people that run your club not those people who are trying their hardest to keep YOU safe.
There is so much wrong with your post that it would take me too long to list. Sure, clubs are responsible for their players whilst under their jurisdiction but cannot be expected to tie them to their bed rails when they are off duty.
Under your scenario if a footballer committed a crime whilst off duty should the club be held responsible?
There’s so much of what you posted I can see sense in and agree with. However I do wonder how much of what you’ve written is with the advantage of hindsight.
It’s a wonderful teacher but usually only useful for for learning what to do future.
Spot on – we are in the middle of a pandemic where many have died. survived with debilitating symptoms and Care Workers have gone above and beyond and the economy is suffering. The implications of a second wave this autumn are barely thinkable but many here cannot get over perceived injustices to their football team.
Grow up god Gods sake – honestly!
Disgusted by the small mindedness😒
Very well said.
So Aberdeen and a Celtic player break the rules for no punishment, but once again Hearts are unfairly treated and have to stop training. The two offending clubs players get to train and prepare for a SC while Hearts have to stop training.
How can this corrupt cabal continue to destroy Scottish football and get paid huge wages to do so.
Fans of all clubs should be standing up for those who are being disadvantaged for no reason and all should see the injustice being levied on ONE club that has followed the rules to the letter.
The main condition of membership is no club should harm a fellow member yet this is allowed to happen. Time for a revolution.
Why can hearts not train when Hull city FC are currently doing their pre-season training in Edinburgh?
Where you getting this no punishment from?
What punishment have Celtic and Aberdeen suffered? Games postponed, NOT forfeit, no points lost no financial punishment, no ban on training. How do you justify punishing a club that has paid out large sums to follow testing and all the other protocols, to have to play a SC game with no pre season ,no games and now no training?
Hearts players and club have done nothing wrong, yet again they are using the pandemic to hammer them simply because they fought their corner, when the league and clubs sought to punish them when it’s in the charter no harm to another member club.
Celtic and Aberdeen should be paying Hearts costs and harassing the league to change their minds.
Whit? Celtic and Aberdeen should be paying Hearts costs? You stotious?
I’m taking it you were lobbying for Hearts as a football club to be punished when one of its fans burst up the touchline to attack Neil Lennon?
It would only take a player who is perhaps unhappy with their Club situation who wants to nullify their contract and move on to deliberately break the rules again in order to become a free agent.
I wonder if there is anyone selfish enough to do such a thing currently employed at a well known Glasgow tribute act desperate for a large Transfer fee in order to remain solvent?
Just throwing that out there…
This has been in my mind since the Bolingoli thing blew up. But it wouldn’t have to be across the city it could be a disgruntled player anywhere.
But this, of all seasons, we have most to lose.
Agree with the posters correctly pointing out the stark inconsistencies in dealing with football vs any other industry, it’s blatant discrimination. I do need to ask though Phil, when governments across the world are admitting they have ‘artificially inflated’ the death tolls and, here in Australia, we’re yet to have one flu death this year, as opposed to 1200 by this time last year, is there not some digging around the numbers and agendas around this whole thing?
.Why oh why must we have so much hand wringing over the diktats of our oppressors.
Sack Mr Boli and get done for breach of contract, discrimination of various stripes, or ignoring his basic human right to earn a living at his chosen profession. Or keep him on and lock him up for 2 weeks and get a s(t)urgeon to graft a slave mask on to his face…. then dance to wee, nasty, Nicks tune for the rest of time.
Most people now believe in a cornucopia of various gods and monsters. Not the God of Abraham Issac and Jacob that led to the Catholic Faith….cant have that shit….Brother Walfrid might have believed it, but not us, no siree….we are too advanced to believe primitive mumbo jumbo…. therefore our post modern 21st century atheist will believe exactly what you are told to believe, won’t you Phil… ???
So Celtic have to do a Devils Island “retreat” impossed by your oppressors…. while Kilmarnock can play on…. suck it up Phil….it’s what you crave… and remember your mask, cant have you wandering about as if you have your own island… can we…???
I think any one with more than two brain cells would understand that it’s Boli who breached his contract. NOT the club!!
Is what he has done ( obviously crazy ) in his free time a sackable offence, if he were sacked then I would imagine the club might be in breach of contract. I guess it would be one for the lawyers if he were sacked.
Politics has become a farcical dichotomy; a zero sum game of fools and fanatics.
How on earth can we possibly fight a pandemic, when all our energy is directed towards fighting political foes?
The troubles would still be bombing along, if both sides of the Irish divide, had not put peace in front of their pride and passion.
Unfortunately bitter acrimony rules our socio-political landscape.
But if our leaders cannot learn how to work together, we will be forever destined to be spectators in a never-ending pantomime.
Knee-jerk unilateral reactions like that of Sturgeon, threaten the survival of clubs.
We must manage our situation with a broad independent coalition of leaders from a wider community than our current source of politicians, and allow them unfettered governance and executive authority.
Sturgeon and her ilk, are only concerned with opinion polls and independence. Their energy is split between prophylactic political posturing, and spin.
As one poster above mentioned, how can you expect to take seriously, a government that shuts down a healthy business, because one indiscretion by a front line employee.
This sounds more like the action of an authoritarian dictatorship than a democratically elected government.
Lest you consider this a rant against the SNP, I would apply this denunciation broadly to all current political parties. Despite some individual integrity in parliament, the political machinery has enabled our current loonacy in governance. It’s power and nothing else matters.
Before football was permitted to return football had to give the Scottish government strict assurances regarding player conduct both within the club environment and, crucially, in their private lives away from football.
Essentially the clubs agreed, on behalf of the players, that the players would follow the standards applicable to elite athletes.
Breaching this assurance twice already within the first three weeks of the season starting, along with the earlier breach made in pre season by another club which has inexplicably escaped censure by the football authorities, is what appears to have roused the ire of the Scottish government.
I too despair that this season will ever reach a conclusion simply because football made an impossible commitment to the Scottish government that football simply does not have the ability to maintain.
cmon phil,
get across this nonsense
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53770929
I g to work like most folks every day all through the pandemic, we take reasonable precautions, why are foootball players being targeted in this way when risks are negligble
Hi Phil,
Firstly a couple of posters keep mentioning the fact that this idiot has had 2 negative tests. This to be honest is pretty irrelevant as the average timeline for development of symptoms after exposure is 6 days, but can take up to between 11-14. Therefore he will need to self isolate for this period of time.
Kilmarnock players if in contact with him are potentially exposed so I cant understand why they could play.
I am more worried about the suggestion that you are aware of another potential risk and are suggesting that maybe this info is not being acted upon due to the club in question.
If that is the case that is a public health issue and needs urgently reviewed by authorities.
Symptoms often develop after being infected. If you’ve tested negative it’s not possible to develop symptoms unless you catch it after being tested. You’re welcome.
Phil,
as a journalist you should not be supporting this yellow card nonsense from NS. You should be calling out what is – an unfair punishment of football because some idiot broke the quarantine rules. The idiot subsequently passed along with all his colleagues and managemet two tests since the spain trip – but still the SFA had wrongly their arm twisted by NS to cancel celtic and aberdeen games.
As I said previously – why then have Kilmarnock not had there games cancelled?? Quite simply – becuase the risk so so small and celtic and aberdeen are simply being punished to set some sort of ‘example’.
The whole of the Real Madrid team were being exempted if they had to come to Man City….
As someone posted – you dont shut down other multi-million pound businesses like Tescos, Ford, Virgin Atlantic, Bank of Sctland, etc etc etc becuase an individual broke the rules,,
Br,
Allan
Absolutely. Only one club has sanctioned a rule break. That was sevco in playing a game without up to date testing results. But then their predecessors have form for breaking rules and not being held to account.
Both Celtic and Aberdeen had idiotic players who should be hammered personally for their actions. I would suspend them rom all football for a very lengthy time. What was the suspension for the alleged racist abuse of Shay Logan by Tonev? These incidents are much worse from a risk to health point of view. In Aberdeen’s case they caught the infected players through testing but those players were in the vicinity of members of the public and could have equally passed on the infection. However, Aberdeen did what they were supposed to, tested and nipped this in the bud.
Celtic have tested Bolingoli and his team mates twice since his idiotic actions. Surely either the player or one of his team mates would show positive if there was any infection. The player should be hammered for risking his team mates health but the club did what it is supposed to do. In fact it tested twice which was mandated after a sevco sanctioned infraction.
So if we cannot take two negative tests as a negative what is the point of two tests in a short period of time? In fact if two negative tests are not relied on then testing can only confirm an infection. It can never confirm no infection because any person/player can put themselves at risk any time without anyone else’s knowledge, test negative twice but still potentially be incubating the illness. So if the point of postponing games was to then be sure, after the self isolation period, that a person is clear then that is a false premise. If the point of testing is to be certain of no infection then that can only be achieved by testing, locking the person away for the incubation period, seemingly 2 weeks, then testing again.
If my employer tells me to stay clear of certain countries and they test me twice a week it is not their fault if I can slip through the net by ignoring them and incubating an infection through two tests. However, if as is the case in my job, I am to work in a hospital and that hospital demands a negative test first, then if my employer has no such negative test and says, “oh just go onsite, you seem ok and the tests will be here soon anyway” then I know who is to blame there and who would be hammered. The employer every time.
So really, Aberdeen and Celtic have been let down by their players but have done what is required of them to mitigate this. The blame lies squarely with the players. In the other case the blame lies squarely on Sevco’s shoulders.
Also, last night’s Aberdeen game was due to be played until the Bolingoli fiasco came to light. What about Bolingoli changed that situation? Aberdeen should have played minus the 8 players. Celtic should have played minus Bolingoli or worst case the Kilmarnock game should have been off too.
Either we accept multiple tests as a clear or we don’t. If we don’t then why double the testing regime after Sevco’s infraction which was the most risky of all. Some of these rules seem to be done for the sake of being seen to do something. Don’t get me started on face masks. If they are to be mandatory they should be up to an agreed British Standard certified and discarded after every use. The ones available are BS certicied but certainly not British Standard. Do surgeons or medical staff use any mask they can buy from any shop or internet supplier and would they use it more than once? Face visors on their own are worse. I accept they might stop direct spittle but can’t it come through the space at top or bottom? Visors on their own seem to be just badges of stupidity.
JS
Let’s be honest though…wee nicola has no idea what she is doing regarding covid. it’s all still a case of ‘let’s make it up as we go along’. Cases rising yet still keeps open the pubs. As a side note. hammering Celtic would be a good move for her as she might get some of the neanderthals on her side in any Independence vote…just sayin like
To extend the analogy,
perhaps Scottish football should just dive in immediately for another yellow – or a straight red – just to end this developing farce?!
Are other players going to arrogantly ignore the rules?
Are the Hampden blazers going to make matters even worse – somehow?
…does the Pope drink Green Chartreuse…? 🙂
Right now I find it hard to see how the season runs its course. However this is Scottish football – a place where the unlikely always happens. Am I allowed to still be livid about the situation at Celtic?! Hope you are yours are well. https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2020/08/11/what-the-hell-is-going-on-at-celtic-2/
Hi all……this situation with the pandemic is very real and very serious…unless your Dominic Cummings or another member of the parliament.
Nicola may believe she has the authority to close football down….but believe me..she does not !!
The covit rules have been set by parliament….and the punishments for breaching these restrictions have also been allocated.
Im not attempting in any way to detract from the situation….and incase anyone reading this thinks Im anti Nicola…forget it.
Politically I have been a member of the snp for years…and I also like Nicola as first minister.
My membership has lapsed since moving to Spain…but Im still an admirer.
The simple fact is that players of any club are employees……
As such they have responsibilities to their clubs…but in their own time…their downtime…the responsibilities for their actions are firmly on their own shoulders….
Put it this way.
Boli Bolignoli…..
If Boli worked for tescos or witherspoons for example, his employers would ensure he lived up to the expectations of the covit laws during his worktime…..
If he decided to go for the weekend to…say,Spain….during his downtime, then return and not utter a word of his trip…not isolate, but instead return to work….without informing his employers….his employers would not be breaching covit laws….because they are not responsible for what the employee does in his own time.
If it should then emerge that the employee had taken such actions,he or she would be held accountable by the law and his employee.
However…Nicola would not…and could not…close down tescos or witherspoons due to that employees actions…..and thats law.
The UK is still held to its own ,and at present,EU law…..which does not allow DISCRIMINATION of any type…anywhere, including the workplace.
If Government found themselves applying diffrent sanctions to football…any other sport’s or any other workplace….it could find itself in the european courts and facing multi millions of pounds to payout in damages for discrimination.
It would also face charges of breach of human rights…especially under eu law…because one of the first human rights laws is the right to a fair trial…as well as the right to work and live.
Im not a lawer….but as an ex union rep I do understand the laws relating to employment law…..and any attempt to prevent footballers earning a living in their chosen profession…like any one else…is a breach.
Im sure theres many other reasons that government could not act in such a manner…..but here is the best one.
In choosing to close down football or any other industry…due to the act of one or two thoughtless and selfish individuals would mean according punishment to the innocent.
That would not be tolerated….so governments should tread carefully before acting like kangaroo courts
HH
This is the first article you’ve done…that I disagree with….big time.
And for the avoidance of doubt… I recently gave up my ST of long standing in protest at the Club’s ” stance ” on Res 12.
So you will see that I’m not the Board’s biggest fan.
However you need to tell me what the Club is supposed to do when a selfish…couldnaegiveafeck footballing idiot decided to sneak off to Spain …keep it quiet…then put himself forward for selection…instead of self-isolating.
I am seriously open to being educated on this…so what did the Club do wrong ?
Celtic didn’t do anything wrong on the Bolingoli case.
Nothing whatsoever.
Once they were aware of his conduct they were open and transparent.
They also publicly apologised to Scottish football.
Phil I need to clarify the situation with your reply to my post…
For the avoidance of doubt…my post was NOT directed at you or your article…it was in fact a reply to The Clumpany’s post where they had attached a link.
I’ve enjoyed their contributions over the years …but could not understand where this opinion came from…and so I invited them to explain.
The invitation still stands.
Hail hail.
Any Wee diddy club under the SFA/SPFL 42 club umbrella could close down the game.
Only because Mad Nicola has targeted the football industry uniquely, illogically, out of all other industries.
Bar staff, waiters, restaurants, fast food outlets..Home deliveries, .all have employees coming into contact with hundreds more people than footballers. What’s going on with the draconian rules just for footballers?
Guys on oil platforms live on top of each other, literally, it’s bunk beds! Yet footballers have these draconian rules. Why? What’s the political agenda?
No other industry is on a final warning.
No other industry’s employees are scrutinised so closely. It’s like Humza Yousef singling out a Celtic player, it’s targeted.
How come hundreds of oilmen can drink in a bar but if footballers go in, their industry is closed down. But no action on the oil industry?
Good post mate…its totally baffling why they have come to this decision…or is it…?
You’re spot on with your observations.
But also…check out goal celebrations among players last night…wtf is that all about ?
Celtic need to get this clarified NOW…!!
Think the oil guys quarantine and are tested before they go off shore. Hence they can live on top of each other
Can see it being nil and void within a couple of weeks. Some players are so up themselves they think the rules don’t apply 🙁
I’m actually more worried about a tactical breach. Say late November/December if sevco top the league (due to our games being postponed plus that dreadful showing v Killie) then a sevconian breaches rules, activates the red then an argument forma that since season called early 2019/2020 and celtic given title the same should happen this time. This is a distinct possibility and I’m quite sure there would be a few blazers who were willing to go along with it.
The impact of the Bolingoli affair is far greater than we have yet realised.
It could be.
Why were Kilmarnock allowed to play last night?
Your comparison with ” eggshells ” and ” tightropes ” is well made….It’s being set up for us to fail.
But I have to repeat a comment I made in a previous post…
Why does our Club meekly accept the decision that’s been made here… without a fight.
For instance …Someone needs to explain to me why Kilmarnock were allowed to play their game…after their players had been in contact with the arsehole known as Bolingoli.
As for the player you mentioned … I had no knowledge of this…but if you know about it…surely our Club does as well…and questions should be asked.
I am utterly convinced that there will be another ” incident ” …accidental or otherwise…and our 10 IAR is in serious jeopardy.
Once again our Club leaves me baffled.
I think the game went ahead because the “arsehole” has had two negative tests since he came back.
That hasn’t stopped us from being shafted Charger…or am I missing something..?
No you’re not. It’s because he’s our player. Killie are even more innocent than Celtic. If there’s such a thing as degrees of innocence.
Lots of rumours on line about players out in Edinburgh and elsewhere. You hit the nail on the head “pampered footballers”. They really don’t give a toss about the fans who, many in difficult circumstances, have shelved out cash for season tickets.
I completely agree about the seriousness of the infringements by the players at these two clubs. No matter how hard the clubs try, there will always be some pampered players who believe that the rules do not apply to them. What I cannot understand, however, is why the first infringement Involving football has been downplayed. That was the bounce game involving Rangers, before the season started, where none of the players involved had received results of a Covid test. This was the only infringement which was actually sanctioned by a football club.
Aye. NOT rogue individuals. The CLUB!!!
The rules everybody else might have adhere to don’t apply to them. They are “the people” don’t you know?
A slightly cryptic post, Phil? There are certainly several players in the top flight, ahem, who often commute to and fro internationally… incredibly enough, some of them are not Celtic bit-part players like the hapless Bolingboli.
Ominous news indeed!
Only one klub have knowingly broken the covid 19 rules yet we’ve heard very little about this. If it turned out Celtic were aware of Bolingboli’s movements, then certainly be should be punished. Surely punishments should have been setup at the beginning instead of making them up to suit…
They still should be as the punishments the football beaks in scotland HOPE to give are retrospective…..
If the spl..sfa…get their way, then demands for others to face charges MUST follow.
Im hopeful celtic get the lawers to point out how protecting the innocent and rule abiding clubs and players is as paramount to justice as what conviction of the guilty…ALL THE GUILTY…including those not currently indicted….is.
Justice works two ways….and we the public …unlike the lady of justice…wear no blinders….we see whats happening