With at least 12,000 fans in attendance at Hampden to see Scotland limp to a 2-0 defeat to the Czech Republic, you would be right in thinking that there should be, at least, a similar allowance for Rangers when the domestic season kicks off later in the summer.
That the first Old Firm derby is on 28th of August also suggests that we could see supporters at a derby for the first time since 2019.
Wrong.
One thing we have learned over the last 18 months is that politicians of all persuasion are quite happy to set their agenda and then work back the way when implementing policy.
Rangers were criticised from all angles for the events on trophy day, and yet they had tried to offer a solution, only to be rejected by the SNP administration.
For the same government to then ok fan zones and the numbers at Hampden when Covid-19 case numbers have significantly increased smacks of discrimination based on the perceived political stand point of Rangers and their fans as a football club.
With everything we have seen and witnessed since Rangers won the league in March, there is nothing to support claims that we will have fans back in Ibrox, ignore Hampden, ignore the Glasgow Green fanzone, they – to the Holyrood administration – are irrelevant.
With talks of lockdown being extended until September in Scotland would you really be surprised if after the European Championships it is no longer safe for fans to attend games?
The first time there will be fans at Ibrox will be the first game after the Old Firm derby in August, you heard it here first, don’t say I didn’t warn you.