NHC... Rangers Statement

[scoopyboy]

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Who'd have thought the guy delivering Italian food would support Celtic 😁

Yeah, they should have ordered their takeaway from The Orange Wok in Larkhall

[Brizo]

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I'd say elite sports pros ARE different to the rest of us. They are allowed to operate in an exclusive bubble in which they are regularly tested to enable them to continue with their profession pretty much as normal (just without the crowds). The rest of us are mostly stuck at home, often trying to fit home schooling around work - or worse, fretting about having been made unemployed during this pandemic. By that measure I think footballers should be held to higher standards and Sturgeon is right to put the boot into them.

You just need to look at the animosity towards the top tennis players (not the also-rans) being flown in privately for the Australian Open and 'isolating' in luxury training facilities (while many Australians are still banned from entering the country) to see how out of touch sports professionals can quickly become.

Professional footballers are in a hugely privileged position. Work-wise being able to continue their jobs with the financial and mental health benefits that brings. Health wise with the regular COVID tests that workers in the likes of Asda or the Post Office sorting centres don't get. Socially as they get that daily human interaction that a lot of us havent had for a year. And yet that isn't enough for them. Too many of them don't appreciate the advantages they are enjoying over most of us and there's an arrogant entitled mentality among some modern-day players that's staggering.

The Isle of Man sentenced quarantine breakers to 4 weeks in the tin pale. I think Nicola should adopt that for this latest bunch of selfish hun @@@@@.

[Keith_M]

It's not just footballers. The Mayor of Blackburn has just resigned after being caught breaking Covid regulations by attending a wedding indoors with a large group.

He said he 'inadvertently' attended the wedding party in order to aid a delivery of food.


Is the Blackburn Mayor really on such a low wage that he has to deliver Takeaway Curries in his spare time?

[ian cruise]

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Who'd have thought the guy delivering Italian food would support Celtic 😁

I'm not convinced about this. If it's youth team players surely a random delivery driver isn't going to look at them and recognise who they are? Id bet half the Rangers fans wouldn't recognise these players if they walked by them in the street.

I accept the business might know if they are regulars but if that's the case, why would they shop them in and lose a regular customer?

More likely to be neighbours fed up with the rules being flouted I'd have guessed.

[JimBHibees]

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I'm not convinced about this. If it's youth team players surely a random delivery driver isn't going to look at them and recognise who they are? Id bet half the Rangers fans wouldn't recognise these players if they walked by them in the street.

I accept the business might know if they are regulars but if that's the case, why would they shop them in and lose a regular customer?

More likely to be neighbours fed up with the rules being flouted I'd have guessed.

Yep not sure a delivery driver would put his head above the parapet. Probably neighbours as you say and quite right too.

[Keith_M]

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I'm not convinced about this. If it's youth team players surely a random delivery driver isn't going to look at them and recognise who they are? Id bet half the Rangers fans wouldn't recognise these players if they walked by them in the street.

I accept the business might know if they are regulars but if that's the case, why would they shop them in and lose a regular customer?

More likely to be neighbours fed up with the rules being flouted I'd have guessed.

The party went on until 1AM. I'd imagine the neighbours would be pretty p1ssed off with the noise.

I could be wrong, but I presumed the Delivery Driver thing was just intended as a bit of a laugh.

[Smartie]

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The party went on until 1AM. I'd imagine the neighbours would be pretty p1ssed off with the noise.

I could be wrong, but I presumed the Delivery Driver thing was just intended as a bit of a laugh.

I live in a flat but I'm not entirely sure I'd notice if my neighbours were playing Monopoly until 1am.

[Mikey]

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These guys must be as thick as mince. Living in Glasgow there's an even chance that any delivery man is from the other lot.

Is his name Henderson?

[Topographic Hibby]

Let me check, Celtic have had the guy that went on a mini-break to Barcelona plus the Dubai fiasco. Rangers have had the previous two numpties (now emptied) plus pizza-gate/party-gate. So I reckon Scottish Football has played all its cards here.

Next one and Nicola is gonna say "game's a bogey" and nobody can really blame her and SG to be honest.

[Peevemor]

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Let me check, Celtic have had the guy that went on a mini-break to Barcelona plus the Dubai fiasco. Rangers have had the previous two numpties (now emptied) plus pizza-gate/party-gate. So I reckon Scottish Football has played all its cards here.

Next one and Nicola is gonna say "game's a bogey" and nobody can really blame her and SG to be honest.

Are we going to scrap the Westminster & Holyrood parliamenets given that MPs/MSPs have been caught breaking the rules re. Covid?

[Malthibby]

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This thread raises questions of morality; whether these players deserve the jail etc, how sick we are of this sort of behaviour.

Say for example, it was Lewis Stevenson that had done these things. Would you grass him up to the authorities if you were the delivery driver taking pizzas to his house where there were other players and there girlfriends present? I wouldn’t. But I’d grass up Alan Mcgregor. Or any hun for that matter. And think it was justified and extremely funny.

I suppose that makes me a hypocrite

Much too hard on yourself; I think you have considered the issue at length and come to a fair, reasonably thought out conclusion.
Personally think that the police should use track & trace & throw their whole squad in prison.
GG

[Keith_M]

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I live in a flat but I'm not entirely sure I'd notice if my neighbours were playing Monopoly until 1am.

I heard they were playing Snap, which can get a bit heated now and then.

[ancient hibee]

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Are we going to scrap the Westminster & Holyrood parliamenets given that MPs/MSPs have been caught breaking the rules re. Covid?

Good idea.

[gbhibby]

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Are we going to scrap the Westminster & Holyrood parliamenets given that MPs/MSPs have been caught breaking the rules re. Covid?

Agree, by the way it's all gone quiet on the Kenny Mckaskill front. People in glass houses should not throw stones.

[lord bunberry]

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Let me check, Celtic have had the guy that went on a mini-break to Barcelona plus the Dubai fiasco. Rangers have had the previous two numpties (now emptied) plus pizza-gate/party-gate. So I reckon Scottish Football has played all its cards here.

Next one and Nicola is gonna say "game's a bogey" and nobody can really blame her and SG to be honest.

She’s not going to close down football for this.

[The Modfather]

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Are we going to scrap the Westminster & Holyrood parliamenets given that MPs/MSPs have been caught breaking the rules re. Covid?

Hopefully. Vive la revolution!

[superfurryhibby]

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Are we going to scrap the Westminster & Holyrood parliamenets given that MPs/MSPs have been caught breaking the rules re. Covid?

Good point.

[PatHead]

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Agree, by the way it's all gone quiet on the Kenny Mckaskill front. People in glass houses should not throw stones.

Missed that. What did he do?

[Peevemor]

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Missed that. What did he do?

He broke a window?

[PatHead]

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He broke a window?

😂

[gbhibby]

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Missed that. What did he do?

Look it up he made journeys which broke the rules but his party have said it was OK. The last sentence is a well known proverb.

[silverhibee]

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Good point.

It's not really, we need MPs/MSPs to run the country, football was given the green light to go ahead as long as they stuck to new rules that would be introduced for Covid, it was to keep moral up for the British people as we go through tough times, football people get to go to work everyday and some are making big money, they get tested every week, NS will be thinking, football players can't be trusted what chance do I have off opening a football stadium this year, folk bang on about football players should be be role models for folk, something I don't agree with, but when they are caught flouting covid rules it's a kick in the teeth to folk who are abiding by the rules and only getting out the house a few times a week.

I think in Scotland the police have dealt with everyone in the right way who have broke the rules, some have had warnings others have been fined or awaiting court appearance "stupid woman from Paisley" and some have lost there jobs through it, as has been said, neighbors look like they have had enough of the constant partying taking place at this house and phoned the police and grassed them up, if they have been doing that every week and get found out then NS has every right to say, "last warning, anything else and I End the season for you.

[Alfred E Newman]

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Are we going to scrap the Westminster & Holyrood parliamenets given that MPs/MSPs have been caught breaking the rules re. Covid?

I'll go with that.

[Juniper Greens]

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Look it up he made journeys which broke the rules but his party have said it was OK. The last sentence is a well known proverb.

Not that it belongs on this forum. But he is seeing out lockdown in his family home in speyside. There is nothing against this in the rules at all.

I believe he travelled back to Edinburgh for a doctors appointment on two occasions, which again is not against the rules. Its not comparable at all with the footballers or Cummings

[Peevemor]

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It's not really, we need MPs/MSPs to run the country, football was given the green light to go ahead as long as they stuck to new rules that would be introduced for Covid, it was to keep moral up for the British people as we go through tough times, football people get to go to work everyday and some are making big money, they get tested every week, NS will be thinking, football players can't be trusted what chance do I have off opening a football stadium this year, folk bang on about football players should be be role models for folk, something I don't agree with, but when they are caught flouting covid rules it's a kick in the teeth to folk who are abiding by the rules and only getting out the house a few times a week.

I think in Scotland the police have dealt with everyone in the right way who have broke the rules, some have had warnings others have been fined or awaiting court appearance "stupid woman from Paisley" and some have lost there jobs through it, as has been said, neighbors look like they have had enough of the constant partying taking place at this house and phoned the police and grassed them up, if they have been doing that every week and get found out then NS has every right to say, "last warning, anything else and I End the season for you.

If the breech was football related then fair enough, but what they were doing has nothing to do with them being footballers. If the rumours are correct, what about the 4 girlfriends - what do they work as? If one works for a firm of accountants should they be shut down too?

[Juniper Greens]

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If the breech was football related then fair enough, but what they were doing has nothing to do with them being footballers. If the rumours are correct, what about the 4 girlfriends - what do they work as? If one works for a firm of accountants should they be shut down too?

You're being stupid. Football is a non-essntial hospitality business that has been given special dispensation to continue to operate.

If the rules that they have been told to operate under are repeatedly broken, it makes sense that any special privilege will be revoked.

Cancelling the season would be awful for the game up here, not just the clubs losing money, but also the international side not having a match fit squad for the summer

[Peevemor]

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You're being stupid. Football is a non-essntial hospitality business that has been given special dispensation to continue to operate.

If the rules that they have been told to operate under are repeatedly broken, it makes sense that any special privilege will be revoked.

Cancelling the season would be awful for the game up here, not just the clubs losing money, but also the international side not having a match fit squad for the summer

Stupid? Maybe a bit strong no?

[G B Young]

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Let me check, Celtic have had the guy that went on a mini-break to Barcelona plus the Dubai fiasco. Rangers have had the previous two numpties (now emptied) plus pizza-gate/party-gate. So I reckon Scottish Football has played all its cards here.

Next one and Nicola is gonna say "game's a bogey" and nobody can really blame her and SG to be honest.

I thought the 'biggie' was when quite a big bunch of Aberdeen players went out on the town last year? That resulted in games being postponed and Sturgeon implying the next card for football would be a red one. I guess politics comes into play here though and with parliamentary elections coming up in a few months she may not wish to be seen as the meanie who shut down football. As you say, there appear to have been enough subsequent breaches for her to follow through on her threat.

[Keith_M]

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You're being stupid. Football is a non-essntial hospitality business that has been given special dispensation to continue to operate.

If the rules that they have been told to operate under are repeatedly broken, it makes sense that any special privilege will be revoked.

Cancelling the season would be awful for the game up here, not just the clubs losing money, but also the international side not having a match fit squad for the summer

But these are not rules continually being broken by the clubs themselves, but fairly isolated incidents by club employees.

If clubs are doing everything they can to abide by the rules, plus the vast majority of players are also doing their bit, then I can't see how it would be fair to punish football as a whole.

[ancient hibee]

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You're being stupid. Football is a non-essntial hospitality business that has been given special dispensation to continue to operate.

If the rules that they have been told to operate under are repeatedly broken, it makes sense that any special privilege will be revoked.

Cancelling the season would be awful for the game up here, not just the clubs losing money, but also the international side not having a match fit squad for the summer

I’m afraid you are the one being stupid. The lockdown rules that they broke have nothing to do with the rules that football is operating under but are the rules that apply to us all. So why should the football industry suffer when no other employers would?