Jim Goodwin claims SPFL bent their own rules to get St Mirren vs Celtic to go ahead

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Jim Goodwin has claimed the SPFL had to bend their own rules to allow his St Mirren side to face Celtic. The Buddies boss was forced to recall kids from loan deals and draft in academy youngsters after 11 first team stars were ruled out due to Covid chaos – and pleas to have the game shelved fell on deaf ears.Goodwin said: “It's been extremely difficult as you'd imagine.

We've been here before. "I'm not surprised as we were forced to play games last year that we didn't really want to."It was Groundhog Day all over - very similar to what happened last year."We had major dialogue back and forth with the authorities and we were explaining the situation. "Nobody at St Mirren wants to cancel games willy nilly, but these are extreme