All football in Scotland should be stopped says Blue Toon boss

PETERHEAD manager Jim McInally believes all of Scottish football should be paused and not just the lower leagues.

The SFA and Scottish Government have made the decision to suspend all football outwith the Premiership and Championship for the rest of this month.

However, Blue Toon boss McInally believes the top two leagues should be put on hold as well.

Premiership clubs have been Covid-19 testing throughout the 2020-21 season and although Championship clubs were able to begin the campaign with only temperature testing they, too, will now need to conduct coronavirus tests.

McInally believes the testing and apparently bio-secure bubbles that those in the upper echelons of the Scottish game have been operating in have not proven to be any safer than the measures in the lower leagues.

Scotland’s longestserving manager, whose side had been due to play Stenhousemuir tonight in the Scottish Cup, said: “These are crazy times and as far as football goes I come back to testing and I think we can say that testing has been a waste of time and bubbles don’t work.

“I don’t think the parttime game has been any more damaged than the full-time game by Covid disruption. At part-time level there was one situation with Clyde – but at full-time level there have been multiple incidents,” he said.

“To be honest I think they whole game should be stopped – I don’t think it should just be below Championship level.

“In the Championship you have Alloa and Arbroath who will have their players tested twice a week and then some of them will have to go to their work outside football so there’s no sense in it.”

Peterhead manager Jim McInally.