Rangers Utd 50/50 as Covid returns to Scottish football
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 20: First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon holds a media briefing with Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater (not in picture) at Bute House on August 20, 2021 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The SNP and the Scottish Greens have agreed a new power sharing partnership at the Scottish Parliament, the deal sees the Greens entering government for the first time in UK history. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell - Pool / Getty Images)
Rangers may be forced into ‘game in hand’ territory after this weekend’s fixture with Dundee United was plunged into doubt over a potential outbreak of Covid at Tannadice.
At least two players are confirmed positives and with the new variant spreading around like wildfire, not just Saturday’s match is in doubt, with football throughout Europe returning slowly to lockdown echoes with closed-door matches and sporadic outbreaks.
Which would leave Rangers and a potential backlog of at least one match should Saturday’s tricky league match be postponed.
We recall Celtic endured this during the Covid season, with a glut of matches in hand (not that they helped them) and spare points to win as they started to trail the Famous, and frankly we could do without it ourselves.
But it is what it is, and we’ll see if the match is called off. It’s currently 50/50.
Unfortunately, if history is anything to go by, chances are it will be postponed, and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has threatened closed-doors again.
But we’ll see how it unfolds over the next day or so.