3 - I just wish I had copy and pasted the utter guff and ramblings of wee Spew and put on here so you could have been amazed and astounded yourselves.
I remember commenting upon it at the time and it is a blatant plea to have the game moved. Now it could be that it is born out of Keevins belief (fear) that Celtic's form is currently very poor (he has said so), or he is sending out a message on behalf of his beloved.
I'd reckon it is the latter and that message will now be ramped up given that anorther 'new normal' will be imposed today. You'd like to think it can't possibly succeed but they have done worse already over the course of 2020 with complete impunity - I guess that's what happens when you have the football authorities more or less in your pocket.
Celtic and Rangers fans will only have themselves to blame if Holyrood pulls derby plug - Hugh Keevins
The first Glasgow derby of the season could have major repercussions
Supporters routinely hammer the SPFL board for everything and
anything connected to the coronavirus crisis.
But what will happen when fans are asked to do their bit to avoid the season being thrown into
pandemic pandemonium?
It would be naive to think, under the present circumstances,
parliamentary permission for Celtic to face Rangers on October 17 isn’t coming under periodic review.
Why? Show some people in this country a lockdown restriction and they’ll ignore it.
Ask people only to meet in groups of six and the response will be: “Aye, that’ll be right.”
Household parties? Police
Scotland were required to deal with 405 breaches of Covid-19 regulations last weekend.
That’s 405 reasons to be
concerned about Glasgow derby day bringing forward an outbreak of spontaneous combustion.
How do we prevent any, or all, of the following?
● Supporters of both clubs
milling around the vicinity of
Celtic Park for a piece of the action.
● A significant number of living rooms being packed with relatives and friends there to support one team or the other.
● Every pub, club and meeting place in the West of Scotland and beyond being thronged by rival fans screaming at television sets showing live coverage of the
big match.
Bio-secure bubble?
I don’t think so.
Social distancing?
Get real.
Biological bomb?
Now you’re talking Jason Leitch’s language.
What if the National Medical Director shows clemency this
time and lets the derby go on while putting the public on their honour?
Only to find that, as a result, transmission of the virus increases to a worrying degree?
Who will the fans blame if the next Rangers-Celtic match at Ibrox is not allowed to go on because of their misbehaviour? You can’t blame Neil Doncaster if that
happens. He won’t be breaking any pandemic protocols.
The SPFL’s chief executive hasn’t had a social life here since he had to send his wife and children to live in England some years ago after they were left terrified by an encounter with a fan in a
supermarket car park.
What if you can’t blame the Joint Response Group, Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board or Health Protection Scotland?
What if it is simply your fault?
Fans have to play their part in ensuring this season ends with 38 league games having been played and the title having been decided by mental arithmetic, rather than the mental cruelty of last season’s tortuous end to the championship.
Scottish football was torn apart in March when the lockdown began and it has never regained its shape since the leagues were called and the court proceedings began.
The game is on a war footing against an invisible enemy and emergency measures have to be taken to get the season over the line.
The four games between
Celtic and Rangers carry the 12 points that will determine whether
10-in-a-row is won or stopped.
Whether four derbies actually take place or not is down to the supporters who constitute the greatest danger to public health on the days these matches are scheduled to be played.
That is unless they’re careful and respectful of the need to stay safe and save lives.
The First Minister cancelled the last derby in March at two days notice when 50,000 tickets had been sold and the pies were ready for the oven.
It could be even easier for her to do it again this time if fans give her due reason.
Old codgers like me follow the rules.