Fans can’t be trusted

Supporters routinely hammer the SPFL board for everything and anything connected to the coronavirus crisis.

But what will happen when fans are asked to do their bit to avoid the season being thrown into pandemic pandemonium?

It would be naive to think, under the present circumstances, parliamentary permission for Celtic to face Rangers on October 17 isn’t coming under periodic review.

Why? Show some people in this country a lockdown restriction and they’ll ignore it.

Ask people only to meet in groups of six and the response will be: “Aye, that’ll be right.”

Household parties? Pol ice

Scotland were required to deal with 405 breaches of Covid-19 regulations last weekend.

That’s 405 reasons to be concerned about Glasgow derby day bringing forward an outbreak of spontaneous combustion.

How do we prevent any, or all, of the following?

Supporters of both clubs milling around the vicinity of Celtic Park for a piece of the action. A significant number of living rooms being packed with relatives and friends there to support one team or the other.

Every pub, club and meeting place in the West of Scotland and beyond being thronged by rival fans screaming at television sets showing live coverage of the big match.

Bio-secure bubble?

I don’t think so.

Social distancing?

Get real.

Biological bomb?

Now you’re talking Jason Leitch’s language.

What if the National Medical Director shows clemency this time and lets the derby go on while putting the public on their honour?

Only to find that, as a result, transmission of the virus increases to a worrying degree?

Who will the fans blame if the next Rangers-Celtic match at Ibrox is not allowed to go on because of their misbehaviour? You can’t