Neil Lennon has gone into detail at the double standards that are being applied to the Scottish football protocols.
The Celtic boss had a lot of issues bottled up as he faced the media on the back of Celtic’s trip to Dubai.
Recently Celtic have been told that only three players can travel on a 52-seater bus yet across the country players are changing in cramped dressing rooms where the 2-metre rule can’t be applied.
With players being tested twice a week any positive cases are quickly identified but it seems that every week in training, travel and preparing for matches there is a wide variation in the Social Distancing being observed.
Glasgow Live reported the exchange:
There should have been 2m social distancing, John Kennedy slip ups
Not everything was perfect but show me anyone who is doing the right things. For example, when we played Hibs we had to bus six players in two buses because we were told now that is the way it has to be. Three people on a 52 seater bus. That has not been going on throughout the season.
We have been going to away grounds where we are cramped in like sardines. Boxing Day at Hamilton there was no social distancing there, there was no physical distancing. It is inconsistent. Protocols of different clubs are inconsistent. We go to St Johnstone all crammed into a little dressing room. Inconsistent.
As soon as Celtic are deemed to do something wrong then bang. You are all wanting blood. It is absolutely scandalous.
It’s not so much a bloodlust
That’s your opinion? Not from where I’m sitting.
While Celtic’s trip to Dubai was being dissected by almost every media outlet the SFA watered down the punishments meted out to St Mirren and Kilmarnock for failing to observe protocols.
In November the SFA were happy to share a video clip of the Scotland squad enjoying a drunken Conga at an indoors venue. The same month David Turnbull and Lewis Ferguson were forced to self-isolate after being away on Scotland u-21 duty.