A Son of the Rock

I’ll have a worry free afternoon tomorrow now that Scottish football has been suspended till further notice.

(It would have been worry free anyway since we were all but safe from relegation.)

Who knows what will happen now though?

The coronavirus outbreak apparently won’t peak for weeks yet -long after this season ought to have finished. How will the clubs at our level manage without the income they would have derived from their remaining home games? (In our case four.) Could we even see clubs folding? Most players’ contracts run out at season’s end in May; could they be asked to play on beyond their terms? Footballers also tend to take their holidays in May and June will they be available to play then? (Mind you they might not be able to go on holiday if countries are in lock-down.) What will be done about promotion and relegation? Will the season be declared null? How fair would that be on teams expecting promotion? Will next season even start on time? These are utterly unprecedented times.

But public protection must be the over-riding consideration. Large gatherings of people are certainly to be avoided for the moment to prevent any possible transmission that might have taken place.

*For any non-Scot reading this an explanation of this post’s title is at the online Scots dictionary.