Follow the science, they said.
After First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid update this afternoon the situation is really unclear with common sense, logic and reason seemingly out the window.
For large outdoor/stadia events, attendance has been set an an arbitrary 2000 figure, regardless of scale, stadium size and proportion.
Make it make sense please – how can this be the case after the recent crowds at Hampden for Euro 2020 as well as the rugby at Murrayfield.
How is this progress and where is the consistency?
The update has bemused many football fans, with plenty taking to social media, reacting with a mix of anger and mockery.
At least 2,000 fans will be able to attend football matches from 19 July, the First Minister has confirmed.
— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) July 13, 2021
Last month, Hampden operated ~25% capacity.
Dens Park, in the Covid capital of Europe, will operate at ~16% capacity for Dundee v Forfar, on the 24th July.
On the same day, Rangers play Brighton, where Ibrox will be permitted to operate at ~4% capacity.#FollowTheScience
— Zimmerman (@zimmerman_72) July 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/gaz_ad1/status/1414967793250967554
SNP madness, duplicity and contradiction in force yet again.
2k fans permitted for Ibrox and the rest of the Premiership stadiums on first game of the season, as things stand.
Roughly 4% of the capacity.
Contemptible. #FollowTheScience
— Graeme Hanna (@graeme818) July 13, 2021
The same feeling was prevalent from Celtic fans:
I find it absolutely incredible given the numbers at Wembley, Wimbledon , shoppers in city centres every single day that 2000 football fans are allowed into stadiums in Scotland. We talk about Westminster hating the working class which is true, the SNP are exactky the same 🤬
— Siam Bhoy (@Mackay1981) July 9, 2021
So the @SNP allowed 12,500 into Hampden but are limiting far bigger stadiums to 2,000.
It's the contradictions that are killing people's willingness to follow the rules.
So much for the @ScottishFA and @Celtic fighting for the fans.
— RhebelRhebel (@RhebelRhebel) July 13, 2021
Now, it has been stated that 2000 is the minimum number of fans to be permitted in stadiums at Level 0, but it just doesn’t add up.
Before clubs should have to make further requests and presentations to be able to let more supporters inside, why can’t there be more consistency applied across the board?
The language and tone used by Sturgeon was, again, authorative, unclear and nor engaging.
Fans, of several shades, are getting increasingly frustrated when looking down to England as well as casting minds back a few weeks when things were suddenly very different in Scotland – whether that be under the banner of UEFA at Hampden or for the rugby at Murrayfield.
Over to you, SFA/SPFL.