LENNON: PART-TIMERS GET NO RESPECT
CLYDE boss Danny Lennon reckons Scotland’s part-timers are being given a raw deal.
After slipping out of the Scottish Cup, he now has to pick up his exhausted troops for a League One relegation battle at Forfar tomorrow – a fifth game in 11 days.
Bully Wee gaffer Lennon said: “Part-timers are out there giving it absolutely everything. They have to get up every morning after every game and do a shift. So there’s no recovery time.
“The Scottish Cup is a great romantic story but it seems to be geared towards making it exciting by getting all the big clubs in there. It’s been a very challenging month for all part-time clubs but for us in particular because we had games to catch up on.
“I’m not getting the violin out but I just feel that the lower-league clubs, League One and Two, have been really shafted here in terms of the demands placed on the welfare of the players.
“Why could they not give the lower-league teams a wee bit of grace?
“I don’t have any qualms about St Johnstone going through. They they were excellent with the ball and hounded and pressed us.”