Hearts legend was reacting to Monday’s announcement by the SFA and SPFL that all leagues below the Championship would be suspended for three weeks.Angered by statements from both bodies indicating that broadcasting income was central to the move, Robertson raised serious misgivings about the risk to lives.He said: “There is a line in the statement saying it was to protect the commercial and media contracts in place.“From a humane perspective, I’m perplexed.
We’ve had more deaths than we’ve ever had, yet football has been asked to carry on.”When it was announced the previously non-Covid testing second tier would play on, SFA president Rod Petrie stressed “the risk of transmission remains manageably low” in the mostly full-time.
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