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Ibrox Shows Its Contempt For Us All As It Attempts To Exploit The Health Crisis Yet Again.

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Everything Ibrox has done since this crisis started has had one thing in mind; what gives them the greatest advantage?

As other clubs fight for survival, as others fight for basic fairness, Ibrox is focussed, as ever, on what they can exploit in any given situation.

This is no exception. They aren’t even trying to hide it.

Some parts of the media are already preparing to paint any decision to bring forward the winter break as “controversial” because Ibrox is against it, but it is their opposition to this which is the aberration.

Yes, they’ve found a single ally in the league, Ross County all told, for reasons past understanding, but this is no more controversial than saying that the earth is round.

Subtract the opportunity this presents to them and this is as close to being a no-brainer as anything is or has ever been.

Scottish football is having another crisis imposed on it.

Nothing we did brought this on. This is not a situation that anybody wants. It is not something to be exploited but faced up to and dealt with, and every club will be hurting whatever decision we make.

The naked attempt to exploit this crisis is appalling.

Ibrox’s hypocrisy is absolutely staggering.

They were the club who demanded – yes, demanded – that fans be allowed in grounds during the initial crisis when there was no vaccine, when only social distancing and lockdown restrictions were keeping the number of dead from being tens of thousands higher.

Now, apparently, they are perfectly happy for football to take place behind closed doors.

And nobody in the media is calling them out for this bullshit position.

Instead, we get people like Jackson accusing us of being the hypocrites and folk like Matthew Lindsay raising the spectre of “civil disorder” if a vote of the clubs goes against the Ibrox club’s wishes.

Shame on the people who are helping to inflate their over-blown sense of entitlement.

That this is actually dangerous, that it creates more victim myths and gives their lunatic fringe more excuses to throw their weight around appears not to have dawned on the hacks who pander and stoop and bow to Ibrox’s every whim and rally to their every cause.

At the time of writing this, Hearts, Hibs, Dundee, Dundee Utd, St Johnstone, Celtic and Motherwell are all publicly in favour of the move to bring forward the winter shutdown.

Not only should this happen, but it looks likely that it will happen.

The press is hanging its hope on Sky vetoing the arrangement; Alan Burrows of Motherwell has already said that the clubs and the league are consulting Sky as a courtesy only, that their contract stipulates a number of games but not the scheduling of them, which the league ultimately decides.

And this is where we are, as Ibrox scrambles for narrow advantage.

All across the country, restrictions are being put in place and every field of endeavour will be hit by them.

It may well be that a three-week break doesn’t achieve anything other than to postpone games which have to be played behind closed doors anyway … and that’s something we might have to face.

But I do know that it buys us time.

Time to get better data. Time to watch what the last three weeks has done to hospitalisation figures. Time for the new anti-viral meds which were approved recently to make their way to the NHS. Time to see if this thing is milder than Delta and by how much, and to try and gauge what that means for the big picture.

Let me put it this way, if those numbers go one way we could all be back watching our team by February.

If they go the other way, then frankly we’ll have more important things to worry about and football won’t be the only area of the economy where the doors are shut.

And that’s the reality here, and there is no “advantage” in it for anybody, no matter what Ibrox thinks.

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  • Pan says:

    Good, sensible article.
    What we need is good, sensible authorities.

  • Michael Gallagher says:

    Aw the poor wee sevco everyone against them we need honesty I’m all for that not a problem for me n thousands of football fans up n down the country let’s get it out there let them pay their taxes aw wait that was the old

  • Michael Gallagher says:

    Aw the poor wee sevco everyone against them we need honesty I’m all for that not a problem for me n thousands of football fans up n down the country let’s get it out there let them pay their taxes aw wait that was the old club

  • Brian says:

    This is the club that has urinated all over the cinch deal and had nothing done to them and now this. Lawwell I hope you are ashamed of yourself. You let this incarnation live.

  • Tam c says:

    Thank goodness newspapers in Scotland are not as powerful as they once were. I thought they wrote a story with ALL the facts.

    And the reader made up their own minds as to what was TRUE.

    Well we now have Keith Jackson and Matthew Lyndsay writing a lopsided story “No other side”.

    Giving their own opinions as if it’s true is it any wonder newspapers are dying. Journalists (my goodness) don’t make me laugh

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