With the SFA trying to keep the story quiet Video Celts contacted the Comms guys about players left behind in Spain while the rest of the squad travelled to Portugal for a friendly with Holland tonight.
There was no media coverage of the squad leaving Alicante or arriving in Faro following the news that John Fleck had tested positive but everyone else had tested negative.
It isn’t testing that counts it is Track and Trace to identify close contacts. Get them to self-isolate and prevent further infection.
In February Video Celts contacted the SFA about Bobby Madden failing to self-isolate having spent most of a week with David Roome on a jolly to Greece. The SFA Comms team didn’t want to reply, during Sunday they had to pull the East Kilbride based ref out of Celtic’s match at Ross County.
With the SFA refusing to respond to Video Celts asking about players left in Spain I published at 12.12 today, others were soon on to the story.
I didn’t have the names but the story was sound. It has now been revealed that David Marshall, Grant Hanley, John McGinn, Che Adams, Stephen O’Donnell and Nathan Patterson will miss the match against Holland, making it even more pointless.
Why didn’t the SFA announce the stay at home players on Tuesday, do they have something to hide?
Kenny Mac and Succulent Tam, the @BBCSportsound news hounds will be all over this later in the day.https://t.co/VjP23C2m0U
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) June 2, 2021
Full story on @MailSport soon
— stephen.mcgowan (@mcgowan_stephen) June 2, 2021
BREAKING: 7 Scotland players have not travelled for tonight’s game against the Netherlands in Portugal.
John Fleck tested positive for #COVID19. David Marshall, Grant Hanley, John McGinn, Che Adams, Stephen O’Donnell & Nathan Patterson told to stay in Spain.
— Anthony Joseph (@AnthonyRJoseph) June 2, 2021
It looks like five of the six Celtic players could start against Holland with Kieran Tierney and Stuart Armstrong joining them with Clarke left with very little scope to experiment.
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