Kris Boyd has warned Celtic to prepare for sanctions from the SFA, SPFL and UEFA.
The former Scotland striker was sharing his insight into football legislation in light of Boli Bolingoli breaking almost every rule and protocol by taking a day trip to Spain.
The Belgian faces a full raft of punishments as his club carries out an investigation with two fixtures postponed after the Scottish Government applied pressure on the football authorities.
Despite being formed in March the Joint Response Group for Scottish football appears to have no sanctions for players and clubs that fail to comply with the regulations that has allowed professional football to restart ahead of many other aspects of Scottish life still in Lockdown.
Celtic have been unable to offer any defence of Bolingoli with Boyd not holding back as he cast his eye over the whole incident.
Picking up on an interview on Sky Sports, the Daily Record reports Boyd saying:
It’s a disgrace, a lack of respect for your teammates first and foremost. To leave the country, there’s no words. It’s terrible.
When you listen to the First Minister today, the way she spoke, she more or less threw it back to the SPFL and SFA to show they are fit and proper to deal with the situation.
What I will say is if they don’t, she’s going to step in and she will. Celtic are missing their next two games and with a Champions League game on the horizon next week, I wouldn’t be surprised if the First Minister has something to say in that as well because UEFA won’t be as lenient as maybe the SFA and SPFL have been over the years in Scotland. For me, UEFA won’t give Celtic a second opportunity.
I touched on it at the weekend that the two Aberdeen games shouldn’t have gone ahead and that’s now happened. It’s up to the SFA and SPFL to deal with it, they’ve been questioned a lot in recent months with their handling of things so it’s up to them to go and deal with it.
That’s why they are paid what they are paid, that’s why they’re in the position they’re in so they have to deal with it, they have to fix it.
I said it at the weekend as well, if they didn’t have the right measures there in terms of, you were never going to expect nothing to happen with what’s been going on.
There might be a game called off here and there, if they’ve not had contingency plans in place for that, it’s baffling for me that you wouldn’t have it in the first place but this now is an extra headache that they’ll have to deal with and they are going to have to deal with it, there’s no getting away from it, they’re going to have to deal with it.
Celtic are scheduled to face KR Reykjavic on August 18 in the First Qualifying Round for the Champions League.