As the British media switches smoothly into grief overload thousands of Ukrainians are involved in the seventh month of being at war with the Russian Army.
Pressure is already underway across the UK to show the most public signs of grieving with sport inevitably in the spotlight.
Last night Hearts continued their Europa Conference match despite the half time news. Manchester United, Arsenal and West Ham all played as scheduled at 8pm.
On Wednesday Celtic will play against a team that can’t use their home city but a club that is playing the game, giving some hope and a welcome distraction for a nation going through real pain and suffering. At war.
The team we were due to play are in the middle of an actual war but we can’t play them because we are too upset? Let’s just take a step back for a moment. https://t.co/7aWQIvEMEO
— Celticunderground (@celticrumours) September 8, 2022
The very least that Celtic can do is get over to Poland, play the fixture and show the same spirit as Shakhtar Donetsk.
Couldn’t agree more. Life goes on & the world doesn’t stop cuz someone dies. Why is sport targeted all the time? I don’t think tomorrow’s game should be off either.
Nothing should be cancelled. Life should carry on as normal.
Only in Britain do you get this hypocritical nonsense.
I see the sfa.spfl cancelled football right away eh all because sevco are playing terrible football why cancel it the queen isn’t interested in Scottish football anyway its all about the biggest cheats in Scottish football getting to bad result so the corrupt sfa.spfl step in and help them out because they no Aberdeen would have beat them thats why its cancelled.
Totally agree.
Fair enough Saturday’s game being cancelled but the CL game should go ahead.
Well said.
Nothing should be cancelled. Let’s get this game played.