Aberdeen and Celtic players break Covid quarantine rules

[craig 5,195]

10 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

Yahoos blame other people for their own failings.

 

I always thought that was a fundamental difference between us and them.  Maybe I was wrong.  

Nonsense Gonzo.  Missing out on the league on goal difference wouldnt be blaming other people for our failings - it would hardly be our failing if we lost the league when Celtic had been given a free hit at an Aberdeen reserve team.

[Gonzo79 13,581]

21 minutes ago, craig said:

A fully fit Aberdeen squad could be the difference between a 2-0 loss and a 7-0 loss. 

If you are hoping Aberdeen are the difference between us winning or losing the league on goal difference, I can assure you you will always be disappointed. 

 

We should have scored more against them on Saturday.  We took the foot off the gas.  

[Uilleam 5,409]

Aberdeen, eight men down, has to fulfil its next three fixtures, irregardless. 

This what is meant by "sporting integrity", I believe. 

I am glad to have clarity on this matter after so many years of guesswork. 

 

 

[DMAA 3,603]

They shouldn't be forced to play without 6 of their starting 11, that is crazy. Unless the league has set rules that, if broken, you suffer the consequences.

[Bill 13,717]

11 minutes ago, DMAA said:

They shouldn't be forced to play without 6 of their starting 11, that is crazy. Unless the league has set rules that, if broken, you suffer the consequences.

Irrespective of what anyone thinks of Aberdeen, you’ve hit the nail on the head. This is just more inept leadership from the SFA andSPFL. No one believes this would be happening if it was Celtic.

[MacK1950 2,230]

One rule for the rest and one for you know who!!!!

[Uilleam 5,409]

If this problem afflicted rasellik, the SPFL Board members would be likely to cancel all its games, immediately, and for the duration of the period of purdah for the players.

They would also, in all likelihood, on judicious, if short, reflection, award the jettisoned games to rasellik, with a notional score of 3 - 0 for each fixture, justifying this on the basis that it would have won them anyway. 

They might, in their enthusiasm to reward sporting excellence, grant them similar victories in one or two other games.

 

 

 

[Gonzo79 13,581]

I'm sure I read that in the upcoming EL/CL matches, if a club is unable to play due to Covid-19 affecting staff then they will forfeit the match.

 

[Uilleam 5,409]

It seems that the Scrapies v St J. is now OFF

 

Surprising. 

[Uilleam 5,409]

Aberdeen's game with St Johnstone off after two positive tests

By Brian McLauchlin

BBC Scotland

46 minutes ago

 

Aberdeen were heading to Perth after an opening-day defeat by Rangers

 

Aberdeen's Scottish Premiership match away to St Johnstone has been postponed after two of the visitors' players tested positive for Covid-19.

Six other players from the Pittodrie club have been forced to self-isolate after coming within "close proximity" in an Aberdeen pub on Saturday.

Aberdeen are due to host Hamilton Academical on Wednesday and are then away to Celtic the following Saturday.

It is yet unclear if Aberdeen face any sanction under league rules.

Saturday's game at McDiarmid Park was part of the second weekend of Premiership fixtures after last season was halted by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Initially, it had appeared that the game in Perth would go ahead despite Aberdeen being forced to cancel training on Thursday and facing the prospect of playing without eight squad members forced to self-isolate.

But Minister for public health and sport Joe Fitzpatrick had called a meeting with the Scottish FA and SPFL for Friday to discuss the situation after what a government statement called "a clear breach of the rules".

Speaking ahead of the meeting, Culture secretary Fiona Hyslop told BBC Radio Scotland she hoped the mood of the discussions would be "frank and honest" but also "supportive".

She described the club's positive cases as "deeply disturbing and concerning".

"One of the ways we managed to get football back on a professional basis was agreement with protocols with the SFA and SPFL and it's important that those have been adhered to - and that will be the subject of discussion later on today," she says.

"In general, we have to remember that the actions of one affect all, whether that's in football, whether that's in hospitality, or in your own home. Covid has not gone away. If we want to get back to activities like professional football, like hospitality, like seeing more of our friends and family, we have to be vigilant."

All eight Aberdeen players were in a bar linked to the city's Covid-19 spike on Saturday following their opening-day defeat by Rangers.

One of the initial cases was confirmed by a follow-up NHS test and the other player is awaiting further results.

Both are asymptomatic but are self-isolating along with six players who were "in close proximity".

In a social media post on Friday, Aberdeen chairman Cormack appealed for "patience" with the affected players, pointed out that everyone "is prone to errors of judgement" and stressed that "it is all about how we respond to something we wish had not happened".