Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday that all public gatherings over 500 people will be banned from Monday onwards.
As we said in an earlier diary, those who can decide this sort of thing have factored in all the factors and decided that the money from two Ibrox games is far more important than assuming the full responsibility of protecting the population during this global health crisis.
“Rangers ” played Bayer Leverkusen last night, losing heavily on the pitch , but winning comprehensively in the accounts.
The devastating effects on the physiology of their fans was there for all to see.
One could argue that it was inevitable…
The Westminster government is little better, allowing the Cheltenham race meeting to go ahead.
When Prime Minister Johnson said he had considered letting it run through the population, he didn’t add that he would do it as quickly as he could.
Yesterday he said that we would all lose loved ones earlier than expected, which is as frank an admission of defeat that you will ever see. But then again, he’s never been shy of trying to excuse his own actions.
This morning , they’ve more or less, with the reduction of testing, told everyone just to stay home and see if they get better.
As any virologist would tell you, testing is crucial at this stage as it identifies the patterns and speed of infection, essential to any plan in controlling an outbreak.
The US and the UK appear to have adopted a policy which involves ignoring it and hoping it goes away.
It won’t.
Not for a while.
Fair play to Tom Hanks, though. He’s been placed in isolation, the word currently in use to replace “quarantine “.
He’s put a full leather suit on and is doing a spot of research for his new movie “Forrest Gimp ”
Back at the football, and the piss poor leadership of the Scottish game admitted they haven’t got a fucking clue what to do either.
Hardly surprising , to be fair, as their record in identifying and dealing with any problems, major or minor, in any other aspect of their responsibilities.
So what now ?
If you have a ticket for Ibrox, and the game still goes ahead, it’s entirely up to you if you go.
On balance, you probably are better out in the open air, but this is Ibrox, where the atmosphere is a little more polluted than most stadia, and so you’re probably going to have to have treatment afterwards anyway.
That may have been a factor in the decision to allow the game to go ahead as normal, and not behind closed doors, as the government has clearly taken in the views of behavioural scientists who would indicate that people would go to pubs to watch, which would be even worse for public health.
Clearly, just cancelling the game altogether never occured to them.
Elsewhere, Copenhagen may have overcome Celtic, but Willie Collum , having seen the lucrative contracts on offer at Ibrox, issued a come and get me plea to Neil Lennon last night.
Este penal regalado al 87’ para el Estambul, nos acaba de quitar un parlay de cuota 9.2. ¡Que chingue a su madre el árbitro escocés William Collum!
BREAKING NEWS – ALL fitbaw suspended in Scotland till further notice!
Caption : ‘Ibrox Loyal bus convenor takes unique anti-Coronavirus precautions’
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Slippy g the bottler
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Taxi for jabba
Caption: Sports psychologist lectures Sevco squad on how not to lose your bottle.
English leagues to shut down with immediate effect.
Afternoon old bhoy, you wrapped up with a Sherry in hand?
caption – hey Johnny!
This is crazy, putting peoples health at risk to satisfy 50,000 rabid Huns. FFS. SFA-SPFL do what you are paid to do and show the leadership that is part of your duty.
At last, sense prevails and Sunday’s game is OFF!
Caption; “Major Tom to ground control. I am now in the Govan area of the planet. Still no sign of intelligent life. Over!”
🙂
Haha
He won’t appreciate that
Caption Hey mister Gerrard tell Alfredo his POP is here
Still can’t see them coming.
Servo give all player New face masks. It’s all they can afford.
Caption: Helmet!
Caption Nacho Novo is still denying he stole from his pubs charity bottle after being shown this CCTV footage
a had the corona virus last saturday but a swapped it fur a hawf chewed bara toffee aint the barras grand
same day a loast a loved one but a fun umin the sarry heid aint wurda mouth grand
Charlie,
Not for much longer m8, when you see what they have done to Bairds, it’ll be posh apartments next.
I am sure the tables from the older years was 3 points for win not the way it is now 2 points ? so if am correct someone has got this wrong ,just saying .
must be the schools
this is how it feels to be Celtic. Champions again as you know. The corona virus won’t stop 10 in a row!
Nurse Ratched ^
Square go
That won’t last long……
bgbhoy ma postman telt me this morning see if the corona virus had a face a bet it would look like nacho novo heh heh
Haha
Square go on a round table. Oh oh oh oh
You two will be getting bottled if you keep that patter up 😉
You wouldn’t waste a bottle like that. Too busy trying to recycle it whilst voting Tory being from the east coast
Shut it ya weegie fud….ken
Excerpt from Alison McConnell’s Ibrox match report in The Guardian:
“By the time that Bailey curled in Leverkusen’s third – and was greeted with a glass bottle thrown onto the pitch in celebration – there was a quiet acceptance that a European run which began at the start of July was coming to a close”
So… the bottle was lobbed by a German?
Ralph,
Caption: “A Sevco bottleneck”
I break my silence and most will wish I hadn’t 🙂
On hearing that games are temporarily cancelled, I am reminded of that age old phrase about barn doors and bolting horses. As one who is at least a decagon target for this virus, given my ageing and collapsing frame, particularly my dicky ticker and constant wheeze, there is some consolation in knowing the younger generation may now have at least temporary protection, if not guaranteed from the current coronavirus, then from the undoubtedly psychologically and mentally destructive virus that infected my whole being in years past due to contact with carriers in yon Big Hoose on the south side.
This virus I speak of, has found carriers within the Scottish football world for well over a century now who, in spite of their dangerous afflictions, have been given the best of protection no matter the cost or danger to others. With the demise of its incubator in 2012, one had hoped the virus and its carriers would have been eradicated, but certain incompetent “experitimentalists” used an, till then, unknown method of plastination in, what they claimed to be the same, but was actually a new form of incubator used by the same carriers. Over the years, these said carriers have spread their viruses all over European and home football towns and cities and in domestic and foreign arenas, culminating last night in a glass bottle (minor in nature in comparison to many other cases), surreptitiously representing the celebrations of obviously shy and retiring opposition fans, thrown at an opposing player by one such carrier.
No matter the level of threat or danger from their very existence, some life-forms seem incapable of change. It is interesting that these are the ones who receive the best protection; are given more and more licence to grow and increase; to expend the reach of their viruses; build cliques that are self-protecting to ensure their power of entitlement can never be challenged; prevent the development of an antidote or cure and guarantee the silence of those infected by offering sweeteners and pay-offs to those who are in control of them.
If we remember anything good about the coronavirus, perhaps it might be that it neutralised the Big Hoose virus by eliminating its means of existence; extinguished the need for an incubator and annihilated the carriers once and for all.
PS: I will beat all the clever-clogs to their comments. Yes, this I admit it sound as though I might already have coronavirus in the brain myself and should be self-isolated :). Ach, if ye didnae laugh when in danger ye’d be – deid???
H H
pb you look efter yersel auld yin keep any snottery coonts at arms length and nae gettin cerry oots and fags delivered wae yer pizza you knowit makes sense ha ha
PB,
Can we have you on more often please?
You talk more sense than Ralph….which isn’t hard i suppose.
Should be suspended indefinitely
Joking weeded. Cliftonville forever.
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It wasnae me that flung the bottle officer, it wisnae!
Watched a bit of the Ibrokes debacle on a pitch that was worse than St Johnstone’s. A good thing game postponed, maybe there will not be another one, as the SS Wanker heads for the breakers yard.
Noted that the bottle was accompanied by a couple of lighters, but as usual our Hun media try to ignore it, plus the verbal diarrhoea including the Famine Song from the peepul.
Kent and Buffalo are so slow that even Simo could cope.
Wrapping my feet in tin foil and covered with a big quilt… I’m self insulating.
Anybody want to but six dozen mini sausage rolls and four dozen scotch eggs ? … I thought they said picnic buying.
I’ll have a Scotch egg….two then.
buy, see it’s happening already
It’s a dreadful situation with many of our elders and infirm departing before their time. As our prime minister noted yesterday. After he was told about the savings the deaths provided in care homes, state and private pensions, NHS expenditure, social care, the rise in share price of private pension providers because the beneficiaries were dying and that the NHS would look like it wasn’t coping after 10 years of underfunding with half the intensive care beds of a modern European country, that will benefit their privitisation agenda. After all that he expressed regret. Hail hail and fuck the Tories.
Caption: As Ibrox faces a loss of match-day revenue the press my belly button for a cup of hot juice machine proves popular.
Null and Void- Dull and Boyd.
Kris Boyd- Dull and Dumber!
“Sweet Love” “On that midnight train to Georgia” “Saying a little Prayer” as they hum “Misty Blue” “Oh, On and On and On and On and On”, “Hey sister, Go sister, Hey Joe, wanna give it a go”? “When will love be true to me”?
Soul Queens are just the Wilson Pickett!
Nurse^
Space Ship Sappy ^
A square go, more like a square sausage,
sausages are the bhoy’s BTW. 😉
Are you self isolating with your copy of farmers weekly & latest edition of Harris tweed undergarments Spring 20/21?
Baaa Baaaa meh meh cum by cum by
Does anyone know the fine details of our deal with Adidas?
How much per season for example?
Great bit of business by the club btw, credit where it’s due.
With this unfortunate, enforced break in the season, may i suggest the huns go to Dubai? 🙂
God bless you Bobby Sands, your fellow comrades & your families….
Your names will long be remembered
FTQ
Blessed are those who hunger for justice!
IRA
The undefeated Army
Caption: Jeffrey Epstein arrives at Pizza Express, Woking.
Has anyone asked Craig Whyte his opinion on Coronavirus?
I’ve faith this man would hold the answer 🙂
Just thanks Craig,thanks 🙂
So if the last ball has been kicked according to P40, clause C38
‘The Club occupying position one in the League at the end of a Season shall be declared the Champion Club of the League and shall hold the “The Scottish Professional Football League Championship Trophy” until the next Season’s League Competition is concluded.’
Celtic are Champions.
It’s also likely no club will be relegated because according to another clause all matches must be completed.