While the petty squabbles go on in Scotland there’s one league ahead of the curve when it comes to trying to get back onto the field — the Bundesliga.
In so much chaos, the Germans have managed to organise the stages involved in bringing football back to the masses but not as we know it.
The Bundesliga’s chief executive, Christian Seifert, is currently getting his ducks in a row with clubs tentatively being allowed to get back to some sort of training.
The plan?
To play out the rest of the season behind closed doors as early as the beginning of May.
The realisation and trade-off for Seifert will be all these games happening behind closed doors.
“We are part of the culture in the country, people long to get back a short piece of normal life, and that could mean the Bundesliga plays again. This is why we have to play our role here, and that means to support the government and to talk with the government about when we will be able to play again.” Seifert told SportsProMedia.
‘Ghost games’ as some are calling them will be the norm for the rest of the year when it comes to all sports around the world. Once governments feel this is possible — liaising with football associations within their country to work out the best route forward.
While the main ingredient of what makes football so great will be missing, the money involved in football becoming a TV only sport for the next eight months or so seems like the most practical route ahead.
Watching the Bundesliga go about their business will give many countries a template to follow for their return.
Celtic fans being allowed to see their club play the last eight games of the season— even from their armchair — is something they’d bite your hand off for at the minute.
In the UK, this still seems so far away at the moment. All our resources must go into saving as many lives as possible. In Germany, they believe the testing of players to get them back on the field will not intrude or take vital staff away from hospitals. In the UK I don’t think that would be true.
Isn’t most football veiwed that way anyhow? Really bad injuries on the field of play are mostly a thing of the past. Supporters get injured and get attended to by St John’s ambulance (or first aid responders) If everybody was tested that would be much easier. Chicken before the egg here. But as mentioned, any widely veiwed form of mass performance of sport would be welcome, on Tv, Internet, live. As BBC Scotland want to show the auld co winning, at any cost